more like every five minutes, first you've got nehalems coming out this year to worry about, then a die shrink down to 32nm the year after that, then nvidia's die shrink whenever that happens, then ati's die shrink, then all the new/renamed cards after that
It's pretty weird, whenever there was a thread about the nehalem's or some crazy intel thing, you would hear (view) people's comments on how whack AMD is. Now they doing something, and there's no 'Intel sucks d**k'.
Seems like stuff is getting updated at a faster rate as time passes. For example, the 6 series from nvidia lasted like 3 years, then the 7 series was famous for about 2 years now the 8 series only came up 2 years, and 9 series didn't even last 1 year before GTX game out....
Sure my numbers might be wrong, but you get the idea
lol. and i thought to myself that i would finally be somewhere near the higher end of the spectrum by upgrading to 4850. when that DX11 thing comes out, what i have now (going to have soon) would probably be studied in history class.