Ati confusion

My last 2 cards have been AMD/ATI and I haven't had any driver problems with either.

What you saw were most likely user errors. All latest ATi cards have solid drivers, with the exception of newest released games that needs a little time for next Catalyst release to fix any bug up.

+1, altho some of the drivers for AGP ATI cards didn't have DXVA.

Pretty much the big problem is with the AGP cards, especially if you have a simple BIOS that doesn't let you set all the AGP values. Anyway go with the 4770 as it's generally over 50% faster in games than the 4670. Of course on paper it's twice as fast, but that doesn't always seem to translate into twice the FPS  .

Yeah, I hope the new HD4650 AGP is better and those drivers are better...

If you find a 4770 then have at it, but they're in pretty limited quantities. I think newegg has them right now, but only for a few hours maybe. Or you could get this 4850, which has slightly better performance for the same price as a 4770.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...