Holiday PC UPgrade!

Basically I am going to be upgrading my PC after the holiday season. My birthday is at the end of January so I will be getting money for xmas, bday and from my job at UPS, my current setup is this:

XFX 790i Ultra-Motherboard

XFX 9800GX2 XXX-GPU

Intel E8400-CPU

4gb Mushkin DDR3 1333mhz-Ram

Xigmatek 1200w-PSU

WD 400gb-HDD

I play on a Gateway 2400HD??? at 1920x1200. This was my first rig I have built...everything is at stock clocks except the pre-clocked GPU, I was wondering what I should upgrade on it or if anything worth buying is coming out in the next 4 months? I am guessing I will have around $1000-1200 to spend on my PC alone. Right now im considering buying 2 of the GT206 cards that come out and a quad core CPU...maybe a WD Raptor HDD. Accepting all suggestions and criticizm (Yes I know I purchased a GX2, and a pre-overclocked one at that!LOL).

Well that's the thing, I didn't know if I was going to be running a Quad/Tri-SLi setup, so I bought the 1200w...right now I only have one GX2...but I am willing to sell that and get either 3 280s or wait and get whatever the **NEW** NVidia card is at the time in late January. So as it looks right now my list of upgrades will be:

*New* Video Card(s)

CPU cooler to OC the E8400, unless someone thinks I should upgrade to a Quad...

WD 10k Raptor, Just a 150gig HDD

-Any other suggestions?

Forget the e8400, the i7s will be out in a month and are tons better, and the cheapest i7 is just $250 and tons better than the e8400STAR_Admiral

Actually, Nehalem will not be better for gaming, and you forgot the motherboard price.

According pre-benchmark that wklzip & searchmaster FROm the CBPCU (custom build pc union) could see there high chance a not overlcokced @ 2.9ghz nehalem is highly inferior to even E8200 Which is for me a E8015LE Since it 25 fps behind E8400 for 40$ more buck to get a E8400 45nm shrink wolfdalke
we are waiting the real benchmark tough but according it simply not made for gamign like Q6660 was when it first released it was made for gaming and other thing then wolfdalke appear and make bite to dust the Q6600 in most of benchmark
it just how it is th ere really high chance since the pre-benchmark where a failure that the real are failure it was beta of nehalem but still huge chance most of beta benchmark about a cpu i saw over wolfdalke / and QX9770 & and other cpu before release revealed to be 95% Accuracy on the frame rate per second and score in 3dmark

but if it can surpass is pre-benchmark and become 35% better then in pre-benchmark 3dmark score & fps then we could expect it to match QX97703.2Ghz but that only if it happen how ever 2010 Westmere as no choice to be better Because it will be 6 core with 2 tread processor instead of 4 core with 2 tread processor an d they will be rated at 3.6GHZ instead of 2.8 & 3.1GHZ apprently & According the inquirer it won't require you to switch for a 33nm shrink X58 and support Straight is westmereIn the LGA socket 1336

it will probabely be with is Westmere or maybe with extreme overclocking who know. we must wait but tough pre-benchmark it wasn't as people expect there