To be honest your current processor and graphics card should blow Battlefield 2142 out of the water, even with every setting at full (with the exception of antialiasing and resolution.)
I have an AMD Sempron 2600+(1.6Ghz) with a Radeon X850Pro and I can play the game reasonably smoothly with most of the settings up.
If you are running the game in 2048x1600 or some equally silly resolution drop it to 1280x1024, that will boost performance a tonne and actually make the game look a little clearer since crazy resolutions require crazy anti-aliasing levels in order to stop angles from looking pointed and jaggy, both of which demand behemoths of machines. If you really want to play with maximum resolution and maximum AA you'd need something like an Abit f8ality motherboard with dual cpu's and dual graphics cards.
1280x1024 with 4x AA should be smooth on your machine, if not then drop the texture size by one notch as your graphics card may not have 512mb of onboard ram and many games since Doom 3 and Far Cry have had an "Ultra High" setting only for people with half a gig or more of ram on their graphics card alone, this could be doing it.
After that I'd suggest a defrag as many games these days are also harddisk-whores and a game that's searching for a big file which happens to be in 100 pieces in different places will just stutter the game.
Hope one of these helps, it's not a direct answer to your question but I'd hate to see someone spend 400 quid that didn't fix their prob.
There are over 50 512mb video cards that are easily left in the dust by my 256mb card.
oh... you have a 1900XTX? You may have OTHER issues with your system... spyware / virus infections, etc.
Other than CPU - your mobo doesn't support any Core2Duos. Just 8xx and 9xx series. The 820 ($100) is a favorite to overclock.... but intel boards don't overclock.
I'd say anything more than $160 - you might as well replace the mobo, use your current RAM and drop in a $180 C2D 6300 and overclock it. And... no intel-brand mobo.
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