if your gonna upgrade cpu atleast make a worth while jump and get a q9xxx to be in the loop w/ a 9xxx series gpu or a 8800 GTS G92 revision. throw some ddr3 on that bad boy and you'll be golden.
also going back to the labeling techniques, atleast they are staying in order and going in consecutive numbers. Intel seems to have missed first and second grade where they learned it goes 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, not 2-4-6-9