I have access to a free C2D E7500 cpu. I would need to buy a socket 775 motherboard and would probably choose to get DDR3 RAM.
I am currently using a crappy socket 939 Athlon 64 3700+ with 3GB of DDR2.
I don't foresee me having $400 anytime soon to do a Sandy Bridge (or Ivy) upgrade.
So would throwing $100 at this E7500 make any sense?
I use my system for general office tasks, photoshop (nothing major), some video encoding, etc.