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A new CPU would help allot though, a quad clocked over 3ghz would open up the GPU more and with today's games it would boost performance quite allot, but it's not cheap even on a 775 to go to a quad from the c2d. Ideally would like a q9450, but meh they still go for £200 new and £140/£150 second hand, if going to upgrade to that might as well just go full out on a i5 or something but then comes all the added cost of that to.

Eh? Most games today are GPU limited and have been for a few years (since core2 I would say lol). I recently bought a cheap Q9550 because I had the upgrade itch and I didn't want my dual to be the limit when I upgrade the GPU but so far, there's not much of difference except when I play games, surf or study the CPU usage is 5-10% instead of 15-30%.

In your position, I would wait to upgrade completely. Let's divide upgrades into three parts; budget, gaming and enthusiast. Obviously the latter is too expensive and gaming as well unless you find a good deal for the GPU and CPU which I would say is the most important components for gaming. Budget could work but certainly won't be that much of an upgrade, just newer or exchanged parts of the same performance.