Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Originally posted by: Mem
FUD,nothing hard getting an AMD board/CPU rock stable with 0 glitches in my experience....
Well, you are better at it than me. And I've been building and troubleshooting PCs since 1986.
I owned two VIA-chipset P3 boards and one SIS-chipset P4 motherboard:
Both the VIA boards had identical problems. You'd go to calibrate a USB joystick and it'd freeze the computer. They also had problems with a Microsoft USB mouse and with a Soundblaster Live sound card. I spent a couple of weeks trying all the available VIA "patches" and finally gave up and sold both boards. I don't have time for that nonsense. The replacement Intel-chipset boards worked perfectly out of the box.
The SIS-based P4 board actually worked. But the SIS chipset had known speed problems with the memory controller. Its benchmarks were considerably below those of a similar Intel-chipset board.
Like many PC-related issues, each person makes judgements by a combination of experience and research. My experience has been that I've been burned too many times by non-Intel chipsets. YMMV.