Your right that is what I said. In spite of that I didn't think it would take a first gen Core i7 to do that. I am thinking of it as a High end Retro XP build since this is basically the ultimate DX9 setup. Don't need Vista since the card is not DX10 compatible anyway.
We are talking about Quad SLI but even so we are restricted to 512MB of video RAM per card so that cuts down the games it will be good for considerably.
Maybe, since I been running a 1366 setup as my main I overestimate how modern it is. I guess it's really not newer then most Phenom IIs even though it seems like it is to me. Also, I will say that 1366 is NOT cheap in fact motherboards are getting harder and hardware to find for a fair price. You could buy an new X99 motherboard for the cost of an x58 motherboard used. Now it might be possible to find a workstation motherboard for more reasonable but it's still not exactly cheap.