Technology overload

I know that technology moves fast. It's just sort of what you expect. But it seems like lately the pace has picked up. Less than a year ago I got a fairly nice video card. Now it's somehow two generations out of date. At least the new ones aren't completely over priced. More troubling, about 9 months ago I got a just released Intel E8400 CPU. Now all of a sudden the next generation Intel chips are coming out. Oh, and if I was thinking about upgrading just that one component I'd better think again. Completely new CPU socket, which means a new motherboard. All the motherboards are at least $300.

The entry level processor in the new Intel Core i7 line is selling for $320. Who would pay that much for the low end model? And why the new socket? Was it really necessary? Was is just so the early adopters could blow $300+ on a motherboard? So lets just say I felt the need to upgrade now, I wouldn't need anything else, right? Wrong! The new motherboards use DDR3 RAM. My lowly DDR2 won't work.

This happens all the time... you'd think I'd have gotten used to it by now. I haven't, it's still depressing.