Even with gaming there isn't as much of a push as there used to be to constantly be on the cutting edge. This is mostly do to the fact that the industry as a w

Even with gaming there isn't as much of a push as there used to be to constantly be on the cutting edge. This is mostly do to the fact that the industry as a whole focuses primarily on consoles first now and thus consoles tend to be the gating "LCD" target. If your PC is at least as good or a little bit better than a console released in 2005 or 2007 you're set. Of course, there will soon be a bump forward here with the next gen Xbox and Sony systems coming out in a month. I fit into a lot of the special cases here: Developer, gamer, amateur photographer with many gigabytes of RAW files and even I don't feel the need to upgrade systems like I used to. Now it is about an every 3-4 year thing whereas previously it was yearly or more.