Now is not the time I wanted to upgrade my computer, but since its not that easy to find quality parts for the older processor I have it seemed best to upgrade. I ended up getting a new motherboard, processor and RAM.

The motherboard I purchased from Newegg (the Foxconn brand) ended up being DOA out of the box. I installed everything correctly but there was no LED, no beeps, nothing. I knew it was a risk buying some weird brand. Thought I did read that Foxconn makes parts for lots of well known brands. Oh well, I will never buy one of their products again.

I did some research and bought the following at Micro Center:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775
Memory: OCZ 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

It seems fast and stable so far. Yay. Hooray.