well the gef2 always has runned maya smoothly... (and i ve seen maya running on 4mb intel 3d cards back on school days...)

detonator 5x.xx are intended to cheat... err... adress performance isues(specially under directx9 features, after scoring half as ati on all benchamarks on all price ranges)... you would spect some problems like corrupted wievports etc on latest detonators... but infinite loops and it hanging your pc!?... with version 45 is stable and fine, tough...(and it was a pain going back to older detonators...)... so if youre buying gef for the support....

right now most non ultra gef5600128mb are on the 230€ to 300€ range so still was a good deal...

On the proffesional range and for what im being told from all sources(benchmarks and users) i would have to recomend ati too (then why the hell i stick with gef!?)