nah, you having a q6600 is definitely gonna keep you in the lead... i'm thinking about buying one instead of going crossfire first... because people are hitting 14000-15000 on q6600's with 1 2900xt.... my cpu is definitely bottlenecking my score... i think at most i will reach 11,000 on this cpu at 2.88/2.9 ghz.. i can't take it much higher because of the motherboard... so until i get a new cpu.. you have me beat...