I know a couple of people with 7970 GHZ edition cards (nobody with crossfire), and have heard only praise.
That said I did invest in a 680GTX as at 2560x1440 in certain games the 680 does significantly outperform the 7970, tho it is £100 more.
Driver problems are generally just teething issues, and are usually fixed before a card hits the shelfs (if you count out multi-gpu setups).
Also I must say the AMD/ATi Catalyst Control Center is a feature I miss massively as the nvidia control panel is junk compared to it. I never really understood why ATi won awards for it when they launched it but I hadn't used the nvidia control panel back then xD
Also note that I am an early adopter. I got 2 2900GT (1GB) cards way back in 07 when they were launched and they are amazing (actually minced some 8800 ultras in SLI at i31), then I had a 4870x2 just after it was launched, and recently I got 2 6950s and unlocked them to 6970s on release week. I've never had a significant driver problem with AMD other than some games not supporting crossfire at launch - but those game always run fine on one card anyway so whats the deal?
AMD gets a lot of bad press about drivers since years ago they weren't so up to scratch with updating older models or for newer operating systems, and on review sites when they get the test card in its pre-beta drivers they have which are not yet ready for consumer use. But honestly, I haven't had a driver issue with an AMD card since I first built my PC back in the mid 2000's, but I have had with nvidia in that time.
I guess its just personal experience, I wouldn't hold anything against either company these days as times have changed.
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