Extending Life of Mac Pro 1,1

I just swapped out an ailing HDD RAID 0 that served me very well since 2007, and replaced it with an SSD RAID 0 (3 x 120, with HDD Time Machine and external storage). What a difference! I fell as though the machine has some new life.
Along those lines, the one other reasonable upgrade available to me is the video card. I am still using the original ATI X1900 XT with 512 MB of RAM. It's really never given me any issues, although it's a bit slow and long in the tooth. It would seem that both the 5770 and the 5870 will work in my 1,1 machine (although i have heard that the 5870 is not worth the extra money due to the 1,1's 1.0 slot limitation).
Would the 5770 be a worthwhile update to help squeeze another few years out of the machine? Would I notice a significant difference? I don't do as much photography as I used to, but still do use Aperture every now and then. Otherwise, the machine gets pretty heavy use in general email, web browsing, and work document creation.
Thanks for any input.

I've been using my Mac Pro 2,1 for about 5 years now and over the winter my X1900 started to give me issues, would not reboot both monitors, at the end the main monitor would not come on unless I left the machine off at least overnight. I ended up upgrading to the 5770 and found it to be a very worthwhile upgrade. In addition to solving my boot up problem, the graphics are much faster and programs like FCPX run and render very nicely, which I could not run before on this machine. I run FCPX and Aperture almost daily along with some Adobe CS and a GIS program for my work. Previously with the GIS if I was using Google maps for my background (it loads the whole Earth map) it took a long time to refresh my screen views, now with the 5770 it is very acceptable.
Right after the 5770 install had some issues with my firewire external drives, which I am not sure if I can attribute them to the new graphics card, I did find one other reference to someone who had the same (coincidental??) chain of events where his firewire acted up right after doing the same upgrade. This gave me reason to tear my MP apart and do a very thorough cleaning of all the fans and airways along with the system board, etc pulling out all the memory risers, making sure everything is well seated. I set my fans to run a little faster and have not had any issues since then.
The other thing I did right after the graphics upgrade was upgrade all my drives. I had a few 1TB drives from an old raid box so I installed them in place of some smaller drives, including the original 250gb boot drive the computer came with. That made another significant difference in performance, my boot times went from minutes to well under a minute to the login screen. Operation is now much faster as well as I have over 500gb of free space on my system drive. I have my ram maxed out (using 2gb FB-DIMMS) at 16gb so I guess the only next step for me now is an SSD sometime down the road.

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