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After seeing this deal on a second 8800GT video card (for SLI action) I was launched into a 3-month order fiasco which I later discovered was fairly widespread. Needless to say I'm done with Dell, but the 3 month wait got me all hot and bothered for SLI, so for a mere $20 more I ordered from another store and got it 3 days later. Once I had both cards installed and configured for SLI, I ran 3DMark06 and was immediately disappointed. Different SLI configurations (alternate frame render, split frame render, single GPU) didn't help either. My driving goal of running Crysis on "Very High" detail was just not possible with a mere 7% gain, which means the cost/benefit to SLI (at least on my motherboard) is too low to justify keeping the second card. Thus ends my upgrade rampage as I enter my patient wait for Phenom systems to become affordable, and finally free me from my socket 939 prison.