Quote Originally Posted by Toritechie View Post
I'm so very close to jumping on the 5970 bandwagon ... getting keyed up about the supposed joys of Eyefinity ....

... and then I read threads like this one and think that I should just stay away.

I've had almost a year of bombproof trouble free gaming from my GTX295; maybe I should just wait on the Eyefinity and 5970 combo ...

At least, I'll stay away from the Sapphire card.

In that vein ... Just WHAT card is solid as far as firmware/software tweaking? Asus, HIS, MSI?
AFAIK, all the cards out there at the minute are just ATI stock with a branding sticker on. I don't know of any partner that has altered the card in any way yet, so they're all much of a muchness.

I've had a 5970 and a 5870, and I sent the 5970 back. I LOVE my 5870 - so much quieter than the 295 it replaced and 2 monitors are not a problem on mine (a gigabyte one).
My 5970 (a HIS one) didn't handle 2 monitors well while gaming and loads of games would not run at all in high resolution without physically unplugging the second monitor. I expect these problems to be very short-lived, and I didn't expect ATI to have perfect drivers at release, but they know that many 5970 customers will be on multimonitor systems. If you have a single monitor setup at 2560x1600 then I would not hesitate to buy the 5970. Multimonitor non eyefinity users should probably wait until the drivers mature a little.