Why do I feel that it's too soon?

The problem is that hardware and technology has been changing very fast in recent times.  It kind of reminds me of the time frame of 2000 to 2002 when processor speeds really shot up very quickly.  In January of 2000, I had a 433MHz CPU, but just 2 1/2 years later, I was at 2.26GHz.  Later this year, there is talk of affordable quad-core CPU's and no doubt we will already see the first product refresh of the first crop of DirectX 10 video cards!

I would not make any moves with regards to your hardware until you have seen some games start to run slowly on your current rig.  And I'm not talking about games like Supreme Commander that are ahead of the hardware curve.  My general rule of thumb for upgrading a computer or buying a whole new one is not to do it until 25% or so of your games are running slowly at the graphics settings you want.  But at the rate hardware is moving, you could realize massive performance gains if you were to sit on your current rig for another year.  It would really be worth it then.

My rig has 2, SIL 7800 GTXs, an Athlon FX-57, and 2gigs of ram. How come I feel that it's nearly time to upgrade both the processor and video card soon? I bought it about 1.5 years ago, and I was hopping to atleast get to 2.5 years before needing to open the case up. With my specs, what are my chances of running games on high with all the bells and whistels at relativly high resoultions.... and I mean 2500 x 1600. Or, if my odds are zero, what about my cahcnes on running on medium settings into the future?aveman1

youre rig is kick ass!! all you need is an upgrade to dual core. if you have a socket 939 i suggest you hurry up and buy on off ov newegg as there not making 939's enymore and are getting rare er and rare er by the week.