I have issues with the X800XT PE and Maya,

if you use High Quality Shading or whatever the option is it goes psycho on your ass.

also, If you want to use linux you can forget about hardware acceleration.

I love the card, but I wish that i'd gone the nVidia route, I want to go to linux but ATI make the worst drivers possible, making Fedora inoperable (it doesn't load X, just black screen), and use of Cedega or anything that uses graphics in Slackware or other Distros impossible.

but if you're in the windows world, and you dont need or what to use high quality stuff then I reccomend the X800XT, the card is an uber god of raw power