To cut down on text, I want to upgrade my old gaming desktop's CPU, which is a Core 2 Duo E7500 inside. To be frank, after I purchased my Dell XPS 17 laptop--it has an i7-2670QM--I was utterly spoiled by its raw computational speed.
After I started playing SWTOR, first thing I noticed is my laptop played it much better than my desktop; checked task manager, and noticed my Desktop's two cores were staying at 80-90%+; sighed to myself because this meant my processor was significantly bottle-necking the game.
So, I would like to upgrade my CPU, but I'm limited by the fact the E7500 uses the LGA775 slot. Anyone have any particular suggestions about CPU upgrades?
P.S. If I had the money, I would much rather just build myself a new machine, but as a college student money is hard to come by.