SLI/Crossfire and the notorious "Microstutter"

I'm getting a stutter w/o the SLI.  Just a brief pause when I enter games...kinda wierd..It just started doing it this week...or atleast I just noticed it.

I was recently impressed with a video on Youtube of a gentleman running WoW on three monitors using triple head to go.   He had a very sweet set up but said it required multiple GPU's to push that many pixels.   Prior to seeing this video I had no desire to go SLI/crossfire.   So I started looking into it and that is how I discovered this Microstutter issue with multiple cards.   I had a few questions for Digital storm so I attempted to open the "live chat" window. Live chat was unavailable at the time so I was asked to submit an email (which I did).   That was either Friday or Saturday.   I have yet to receive a response.   I'll ask the same questions here.   Besides Matrox's triple head2go, is there any other way to run 3 monitors as one giant desk top (for games)?   

The 5870 supports 3 monitors, though one port is Display Port so you will need a converter if you have a DVI/VGA monitor.

What is your take on the "microstutter" issue with multiple GPU's?   I certainly would hate to invest in an SLI or Crossfire set up only to experience the equivalent of poor frame rates.   Is it something you guys witness frequently or is it a rare anomaly?

Can you tell me how to remove the bottleneck?

I would first try the most up to date drivers then 2 older ones, normally you will find one that takes care of it, most times it is drivers, and other times as justin stated it can be other things.

There is a difference between "microstutter" and just low frame rates (which is what you are most likely experiencing with your single card).   

Here is an excerpt of an article by Kyle lunau I just found on the OC forums about the subject:

"Now there isn't really a complete agreement on what causes micro stutter, but there are a few theories out there. The first is that the SLI or Crossfire connector bus is being saturated, forcing the data from the second card to travel over the higher latency PCI-e connection. Not all that far fetched, considering the sheer amount of data being tossed around between the cards. So I decided to do a little test. Crysis, minimum settings, 800 x 600 res, shouldn't saturate the connector bus. But alas, the micro stutter was still present. I switch off SLI, no stutter."

Here is the full article here:   

http://www.overclockers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4420:microstutter&catid=60:videocards&Itemid=4266

I want to point out that I am not experiencing micro-stutter myself.   I simply discovered its existence after considering a crossfire/SLI configuration to run several monitors.   I had never heard of it.   I wanted to know if it is a common problem, and possibly speak to anyone who had dealt with the issue.   It seems to be very much like the Chupacabra. Everyone has their own version of what it is and what causes it.

I appreciate everyone's input.   I'm going to stick to a single card solution.

Thanks!