[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Phil Brutsche]

Dave Kimmel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002 nick at snowman.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>Lemme guess.. You're running a VIA Chipset?
>>	Nick
> 
> 
> Yup.  My turn to guess:  VIA chipsets and Athlons don't play well
> together?  I didn't do too much research when picking out parts for this
> machine, so this wouldn't surprise me.

Less that and more VIA chipsets aren't exactly known for their stability.

But to answer your question, the chipsets available for Athlons are:

1) AMD
2) VIA
3) SiS

in approximate order of reliability.


Phil