I purchased a 5970 at day one. I had no driver related issues with my video card. No GSOD or graphical artifacting issue. The only issue I had was mass effect 2 AA and slow loading time in Battlefield Badcompany 2. But those issues were resolved with "preview" drivers.
I also upgraded from a Q9650 to a i7 980X. Again, no issues.
I have owned many Nvidia cards over the years and I still haven't encountered a game breaking driver. I always used their beta drivers to begin with.
The people who have driver related issues, are usually people who don't properly uninstall/drive clean their system. Or they are very aggressive on their overclocks. Some of these driver related issues do have some fault with ATI and Nvidia. But, majority of these issues are user related.
I also upgraded from a Q9650 to a i7 980X. Again, no issues.
I have owned many Nvidia cards over the years and I still haven't encountered a game breaking driver. I always used their beta drivers to begin with.
The people who have driver related issues, are usually people who don't properly uninstall/drive clean their system. Or they are very aggressive on their overclocks. Some of these driver related issues do have some fault with ATI and Nvidia. But, majority of these issues are user related.