sli at 1680x1050?

Hey man--- As far as your sig goes, pumping 2 8800GT's would more than likely NOT lead to a gpu bottleneck, if anything it would be a cpu bottleneck. Why not drop $100 on a 5000+BE and hike it up to ~3.2 GHz? Then you wouldn't have to worry about processing power either.

Check my sig. I tested my comp on my bro's monitor (1600x1200) and everything ran... basically smooth as butter. That leads me to conclude that:
1. Either you won't get a bottleneck at all at 1680x1050 or
2. It will be a cpu bottleneck.

Just a thought.... I'm getting ready to get a 1680x1050 monitor myself, and possibly drop another 3870 into my rig, so I'm in a similar situation as yourself.

Happy gaming!

yah I just spent $1200 to get out of skt 939. Well, hell, toss it in and see what happens. If all else fails, you'll already have 2 wicked video cards and a sweet monitor for when u upgrade

Your current setup can run 8800 in SLI however, if i owned that rig i would settle for the one 8800 and think about updating the cpu, mobo and ram.

Having to fork out £££ or $$$ for an SLI rig to only run on 1680x1050 on a cpu bottlenecked rig would be IMO a waste .

It will run it, but there's the low possibilty that you dont have the PSU to run it. there will be a difference, but after this just save up for a new rig. The socket is dead.