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I play a few fair games but haven't actually played BF3. Are you saying the reliance on the CPU goes up with more GPUs in SLI? There are very few games this applies to but BF3 is one of them. BF3 uses the CPU quite a bit and makes use of the extra cores/threads found on an i7 (any i7 will do, not just the SB-E ones). If you use for example one GPU and an i5 2500k there is no problem. If you use 2 or more high end GPUs and the 2500k there is a measurable drop in GPU usage compared to an i7. No amount of ocing will correct this. Remember at the moment this is the exception and there very few games that work like this.