If you have money coming your way for Xmas, I would wait until you have it all in hand. Personally, I would not upgrade to the old Phenom II architecture as it has been out a while and there are better things to buy. There are always component and package deals floating around Newegg and TigerDirect. I would honestly replace all components in that list, but at the least the Power Supply, besides the mobo,cpu,mem. They do tend to deminish over the years and would hate to put nice new components in a system, just to see a PSU fail and take them out. Newer units have protection circuits.