ATI's Updated Catalyst Control Center: Worth the Wait?

Danhill

On September 2nd, ATI released the Catalyst Control Center, the long-awaited overhaul of the control panel for their “Catalyst” drivers. The Control Center promised many enhanced or new features and an easier to use interface. However, despite the hype that many ATI fans had placed on the Control Center, it was met with lukewarm reception. Why? The initial release was plagued by slow performance, broken features, and complaints that it took too large of a memory foot print. Also, some people didn’t want to download the additional 16MB that the Control Center adds to the already substantial Catalyst package, or the .NET framework required to use the panel.

Read more: Sudhian

LeanWolf

Good review, fairly honest. Basically he says, as it stands now, it's only worth using if you like the preview window, which he admits is more for noobs, or if you like the game profiles, which he couldn't get to work on any of the three games he tried.
Otherwise it's still rather sluggish and it'll slow your boot time considerably. He's not worried about the increased RAM usage, .NET platform and he found no noticeable effects on 3Dmark03 scores.

Koogle

They should have spent more time working on improving there drivers

I've uninstalled the new Control Panel what a waste