Alright, i'm about to build a new computer and haven't built one since like 05. I was like, hell yeah, gonna get some Crossfire or SLI cards and it ill be banging!

Then... I discovered this thing called micro-stuttering that i have read up on quite a bit the last 2 days. For those that do not know what this is, its when you have multiple GPU'S (even x2 cards) running in SLI or CF and one card is taking longer to "develop" a frame while the other isn't, but before the 2nd card can give its frame, it has to wait on the first one to show, and keeps going like this.

Example: Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking - The Tech Report - Page 5 (look at the charts further down, can clearly see it)
the above link is also a whole article about this issue, super long too.

I hear people claim is like a flicker or a stop and go thing and the FPS would not drop at all. So when review websites would review a card and test it, it would still show the FPS it gives out but if you would watch the actual test, it didn't appear right. Like it was running at 30FPS but it was actually at 60FPS.

Ive also read that some people don't notice it while others do, some say due to having good vision etc.

There is also an article at Toms Hardware on the same topic: Micro-Stuttering And GPU Scaling In CrossFire And SLI : Micro-Stuttering, Multi-Card Scaling, And More!

The reason i post this is to ask if any of you have noticed this and how bad it actually is. As currently i am deciding against a multiple GPU setup and leaning towards a single powerful one.