Originally Posted by nichomach
Nah, mate it was over a couple of years ago. AMD have never been unreliable, but some of the supporting chipsets (step up Via, I DO mean you) used to be fairly ropey. Add in users' propensity to buy motherboards from no-name suppliers and then blame AMD when it went horribly wonky, and you get an unfortunate reputation for unreliability. I have to say, I think nVidia should take a LOT of credit for raising the bar in terms of the quality of chipsets designed to support AMD processors, but in reality, nVidia, Via and SiS all produce highly stable chipset platforms for AMD CPUs these days.