I am in some what similar situation with my XPS GEN3 - Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4GHz with HyperTreading, this is exactly 8 years old and counting. I know it is old, but it is working, so I am still using it. I got newer second PC, which I was able to upgrade. So now I have 2 PCs, if one gets into troubles, I can use another one. May be it is time for you to make 8300 as yuo secondary one and get another one?!
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