You need to watch it there Cranky as your verging on ignorant fanboyism yourself.

As for the issue at hand, it happens with *all* current multi gpu setups, 3870x2 included. It varies in severity and most people won't notice it unless they make a point to look out for it and even then its usually not a show stopping issue. It is more prevalent at lower framerates which has been mentioned and this is largely why it isn't noticed much in most cases, as multigpu configurations usually result is high framerates.

I've used both 7900GT SLI and now 8800GTS 512s for the last 6 months and never have found it to be all that noticeable. I've also played around with some 3870/X2s for a few weeks and it was the same deal, it's there but I honestly wasn't irritated with it. People are blowing this *WAY* out of proportion and I think there are some severe cases of OCD here....

Yes it would be nice if it didn't happen at all but I personally don't find it to be a that big of a deal like many of you seem to think it is. People have used multigpu for years now and it seems that not until recently that this came to everyones attention so it sounds like more of an excuse not to go multigpu than anything.