The Anandtech thread on this had the exact same responses as this.
(ATI-leaning guy says 'so we can drop the buggy drivers thing', Nvidia-leaning guy says 'ATI still has problems and this is only a minor issue', ATI guy says 'dead cards aren't a minor issue!')
Thanks for being totally predictable guys.
Here's the 'middle ground': The Nvidia issue is serious but likely transient, and the AMD issues have become much less in the last few years but still deserve to be pointed out, with specific recent examples, where they're still poor (For example, custom Crossfire profiles).
This issue has been widely and independently reported, and Nvidia has sent emails warning of the buggy driver, so it's definitely official. The question is, how many cards break permenantly from this? 10%? 1%? 0.1%? Even 0.1% would represent tens of thousands of affected cards.
