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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wonko the Sane" data-source="post: 4035088" data-attributes="member: 16490">I recently built what I thought would be a cutting-edge gaming rig (EVGA 680i LT w/SLI, Core2 Duo E6850, 4 GB RAM, 2 x EVGA 8800 GTX 768 MB, 500 GB HD, Vista Home Premium), but I've been having troubles getting any newer game such as Crysis or UT3 to run smoothly at any resolution/AA setting higher than 1280x1024/no AA, which looks lousy on my 22" widescreen LCD.  :\ <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> So, I downloaded and ran 3DMark 06.  This is when it got really confusing.  With SLI disabled, it scored 11,409 @ 1280x1024.  Expecting an increase with SLI enabled, I was dismayed to see the score drop to 5684 - less than half.I've already updated to the latest drivers from EVGA for the mobo and video cards to no avail, so I'm ruling that out for now.If someone more up-to-date on this SLI stuff has any advice for me, I'd be happy to hear it.(I've attached the output from 3DMark for reference)TIA,WtS</blockquote>