I built my system 4 years ago. Is it me or has tech kind of dogged it out since then? It doesn't seem like much has changed and what has is barely worth mentioning. I upgraded from my C2QE CPU and an AMD 6870 and it's still almost untouchable by todays games and most non-business software. My newer 3570k with AMD 7870 (still running 24gb of ram from my old PC) seems to be doing as good or better than most machines for sale today and the only reason I see to upgrade would be to add a few points onto some pointless benchmarking test.
Have I missed something? Tech used to advance as fast as you could buy it. Have we seen an end to that?