The debacle with 48x0x2 cards is appalling with recent driver releases. The second GPU not going into 3D is just quite simply a ludicrous problem to have.

I've been a happy ATI user for many a year, with this 4870x2 and my old X800GTO, not to mention 9800 Pro and X1900XTX. This is the first time I've had real driver problems, and it has come with these 10.x drivers that just can't get the second GPU working on the last-gen flagship card of theirs. I find it so mind boggling how they could break such a fundamental part of the driver and then either fix it only in hotfixes, which some reports have shown didn't work, but then in the next iteration of standard drivers FAIL to fix it and require hotfixes again.

Don't get me wrong - I don't dislike ATI. I've hopped preetty much evenly between the brands. But this recent spate of drivers has been a catastrophe for anyone not on 5xxx series cards which is simply unacceptable.