Been using ATI for over 4 years. Now own a Radeon 8500 retail and i'm struck by the beauty of the color, works on all my games and damn they made some nice screensavers for this card. As for drivers, stick with the "Official" drivers if you are having problems. Betas are just that, betas....for testing purposes. When a company makes a product, they do not manufacture them to be overclocked. With that in mind, if you can O/C the product, more power to you but if it screws things up, don't bitch
my 2 bits