CPU/chipset trouble *updated from before*

Lets restart things. I added what people asked for. Vote for what chipset/cpu combo you have had the most trouble with. Optional feedback on why would be cool.

<b>CPU Trouble</b>

I think a lot of it comes from stupid user errors, not from the chipset itself. I've seen a lot of people who call themselves skilled just do stupid things like setting up their memory wrong in BIOS and wondering why their system is unstable when their CAS3 SDRAM is set to run as CAS2.

However, I've also seen a LOT of problems from VIA over the years. I think a lot of that might have just been their software support, but sometimes it's still just good old-fashioned hardware issues.

Some people now are saying that the new VIA products are flawless. I don't think I'd trust them yet though. Also, given their chipset performance deficiencies, I'll be avoiding VIA anyway.

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[ROFL]
I'd like to hope that it'd teach them a lesson when they do things like that.

Most of the time they don't though.

They end up calling tech support and yelling at them for endless hours because they futzed with the settings of their system, frying it to kingdom come when a friend told them that their computer will run faster if they, "blah blah yada yada ding reboot whoosh". And they completely deny ever futzing with anything and it all must be the PC manufacturer's fault, etc.

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