nVidia, OTOH, have had excellent drivers.

They have been rock solid for a very long time.

I see the 30 series with the infinite loop debacle passed entirely over your
head completely unnoticed. Very strange, considering the amount of
complaints those drivers generated.

From the release notes of the latest driver version (52.16):

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Clone mode may be set for the GeForce FX 5600 although only one display

is connected.

This setting causes a drop in the performance of 3D applications. The

workaround is to use the NVIDIA control panel to reset the system to

standard mode from clone mode.

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: When 4x FSAA is enabled, half of the screen is

black in Tiger Woods 2004 introductory video.

GeForce4 MX 440 and GeForce4 Ti 4400, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash

during Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.

A fix for this issue will be included in the next driver release.

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: Homeworld2 antialiased performance is slow.

This is a known issue with the application. NVIDIA is working with the

developer to address it.

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce4 Ti 4400, Windows XP: Rendering

corruption in Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.

A fix for this issue will be included in the next driver release.

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: "X2: The Threat" benchmark is

choppy or jerky in some places.

A fix for this issue will be included in the next driver release.

Windows XP: Antialiasing doesn't appear to be working in Final Fantasy XI

benchmark.

This is a known issue with the application. NVIDIA is working with the

developer to address it.

All GeForce FX: Intermittently, Warcraft III videos are not displayed

properly on some systems.

A fix for this issue will be included in the next driver release.

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These are merely the bugs Nvidia *KNEW* about when they *released* the
driver! Rock solid my arse!


5900....$200....hmm...drool.......

I guess, if you enjoy the slow pixel shading performance and poor AA quality
of the GFFX series, that's an OK price to pay for a fundamentally flawed
product...