I think the problem is obvious. No lockups/problems before ATI so it's clearly the card.

I'm not surprised... a majority of ATI owners experience the same problem no matter what system they are used in. Just do a search on any search engine and you will see this is widespread. ATI continues to sell sub-standard products and why people continune to fall for it is beyond me. Great PR spin I guess.

But hey, as AI mentioned, if you want great benchmarks, go with ATI. But if you want both quality and reliability, go with nVidia.