Time to upgrade...need advice

Ok. I've had Vista for more than 3 years now and while it works great for me, maybe I'd like to upgrade everything and move on to Win7-64bit. I'd like to keep my mobo, which I love, but I was thinking of increasing RAM to 8GB, changing my hard drive, putting in a 5870 or 5970 (I would also change the PS of course--1000w+), and maybe the processor as well. What would constitute a great upgrade for a processor, according to the one I currently have? Check my specs, please advise. Thanks in advance.

 Any of the dual core CPU's with Level 3 cache will run rings around any CPU that you can put on your current MB. Cost of my rig would be about $815 USD buying parts at newegg. That would exclude the WD 250 and Maxtor 80 which are my old drives, the 500 is the new one. Also exclude the ODD you see in this rig in price mentioned, that price has extra $25 added in if I would have bought a new ODD.
 In other words the price shown would be the Elite 330 case & added 2nd fan (fan $7), MB, CPU, RAM, VGA card, PSU, WD 500GB HDD, CM 212+ cooler and not purchased but to keep an honest price for a complete build $25 for ODD was added in. That is for sale prices and any rebates also so price could vary due to that. For performance it is much better than the P45 Platinum/Q6600 rig prior to this one.
 To compare with HU16E's WD VR this is 100GB partition with the OS I ran the bench on. Similar results were found with ATTO and HDTach.   
 My new WD 500 Caviar Black S-ATA 3.0 and old WD 250 Caviar SE S-ATA 1.5

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