Well, since you arnt getting the money till Christmas, I would say wait for a AM3+ mobo as I dont think you are planing on SLIing in the future this mobo will give you room to upgrade your CPU later down the line in say 2-3 years when 8 cores will make a difference (yea bulldozers going to be 8 freaking cores, and thats not even the high end) and get say an x4 955(or 965) for 120 some bucks as I recall from there roadmap (i dont remember where I saw it
) that is going to be like the projected area possibly late q1 next year.
edit: If there is anything wrong with what I said here, tell me its late and im just throwing out ideas