Could you recommend improvements? +11REP

[Describe]

My computer is something like six years of age and I don't have the cash to buy another one but I'll soon have a budget to improve the current state of it. I'll have around £200, I simply haven't had the time to even think about what I can do to make this pile of **** better than it currently is. I thought I would post here as I know several of you that scour this section enjoy suggesting improvements, you do a decent job of it to. Here are my current stats (dont know what ones would be of the most use so I posted the lot).

I'm both media and game orientated and I do a bit of work on Photoshop CS5 as well. I'd like to run GTAIV smoothly and I would like to just give the computer a boost really.

I appreciate any help given.

[Recursion]

If you want to run GTA4 smoothly you'll pretty much need a whole new computer...

You could definitely get a RAM upgrade but IMO it's not worth it seeing as your motherboard is so out of date and DDR2 RAM is getting more and more expensive. I also fear any sort of graphics card upgrade would be bottlenecked by your CPU...

[Stephen!]

Get rid of everything.

Save up more money and start again. £200 upgrade for that isn't going to get you playing any games in the past 5 years.

[Chippiewill]

I have to agree with the above two points, GTA IV struggles to run bearably on recent hardware let along six years old.

[Describe]

Thanks for the comments guys, I'll start saving up and look at refurbished or second hand trusted seller items as they are always cheaper. +REPPED the lot of you.