7800GT - worth upgrading?

[lokkers]

Basically i'm building a mate a new machine in a few weeks (not really for gaming, just general use/uni work), and it obviously needs a GFX card.

I therefore have two options:

1) I can sell him my 7800GT for ~£90 and upgrade to a better card.

or 2) keep my 7800GT Extreme and wait til next year and DX10/next gen cards.

I'm only looking to spend in the region of £100-140 (so £190-230 including the money from my GT). I only game at 1280x1024, and I'm not really noticing any major issues with the GT, but I dont want to get to a stage where its next to worthless (I'd rather upgrade whilst it still has a decent resell value). I also want a decent step up, to make it more worthwhile (and justify it better to myself )

So what would you do, and what card would you get?

 

[deadeyedic30]

Keeps it and save your cash for later.

 

[easyrider]

sell it while you can still get money for it,

Then get a x1900 xt or 7900 GTO

Might has well get more perfromance for little outlay.

Your mates happy,you're happy

nuff said

 

[Tooks]

I was debating the same to myself recently, but when I thought hard about it, there is nothing I play currently (COD2/HL2/Far Cry/TOCA3 mainly) which can't be handled by my 7800GT Extreme at 1440 x 900 (Max res on my monitor).

So, nice though it is to get a new graphics card, I'm waiting for DX10 cards I think.

The 7800 is going to be worth something in 6 months time, as there is always somebody behind you on the upgrade curve?

 

[paradigm]

I'm going to hold on to my 7800 GT's until DX10 cards hit.

Don't really see the point in upgrading now, I KNOW i'll want to when DX10 hits anyway lol.