Well my decision regarding video cards is (at the moment anyway) to hold tight with my GF3 and not buy another card until one that will run HL2 and Doom3 with all the eyecandy is out and has dropped in the 150-200 range. This will probably mean that I have to wait a while after those games are released to buy them. I am assuming that they will be the same games nonetheless
I have been having a lot of fun playing older games anyway of late. It's easier to find a bunch of people in our chat with the hardware needed to run UT or Q3 or MOHAA than it is to find 5-6 people with 9700 pros who want to play a game.