Ahh man aww man. I was building my new dual-core system for a purely utilitarian reason: I couldn't learn or experiment with video encoding when every single operation would make my PC unuseable for hours on end. Using a second drive for most operations didn't alleviate everything: I NEEDED dual core. I found a good deal on a mobo + CPU combo and it just happened to be an Abit AN8-SLI (With passively cooled chipset!). I did NOT intend to make a monster gaming system out of it but I could not find any "awesome deals" on a PCI-Express 6600GT or better until I found this. It would be a shame not to get two and do SLI and, even though I tried to reason against it, my brother went ahead and placed both orders (One rebate will go to his place, one will go to mine).
Thanks for getting me back into PC gaming ATHD+OP+Newegg. I was perfectly happy with my 6600GT + Half-Life 2 in a Media Center PC that I never had the chance to play or use! Now I'm going to be hard-pressed to get my money's worth out of this before it's obsolete.