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1) I would wait a week or two to see how well crossfire HD 4780 works. The motherboard choice also depends on this (you want a X48 board for crossfire).
2) Looks like you have the money for a fast quad core so go for that. Pick the Q9450.
3) 1200W is overkill. Get a Corsair 750TX or 1000HX, should be plenty of power.
4) Can't really say, but it won't get much better 
As I said you might wanna change the board with the GPU's, time will tell. At least you get better performance out of a single GPU with the intel chipset and then theres the possibility of going crossfire.
CPU: Q9300 --> Q9450.
For cooling get these three bits:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233019
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835186020
If you go for a X48 board you need DDR2 ram also.
This HDD is faster: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 822148288R
My two cents.
Message edited by twattle on 06-20-2008 at 09:00:14 AM
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