michaelleung: And that is why I wouldn't even trust AMD/ATI with a puppy. With Nvidia, it just (doesn't always but most of the time) works.
chautemoc: Or it kills your fan. :P
I've been using ATI for a couple years now and haven't had one issue. They HAD a bad reputation for drivers, but get over it, people. Times can change. :P
I'll just say that because of the hell I've been through getting a Mobility Radeon X2300 HD to work properly under Win7 64-bit, I probably won't buy an HD Radeon 5850 or similar card. It was either broken resolution scaling options or BSoDs and OpenGL black screen flickering.
However, NVIDIA doesn't always get it right either. 196.75 and its wonky fan problems aside, there's the GeForce 4 MX, the whole GeForce FX line (I went ATI back then because you'd have to be braindead to even think of going NVIDIA with those cards), and now the Fermi/GTX 4*0 lineup being hot and power-hungry.
I guess I'll be sticking with my 8800 GT for a while longer.