[geeks] Intel Atom MB - Initial Impressions

[Rick Hamell]

> *Everyone* has problems with VIA chipsets, they suck period. After my 
> last VIA-based AthlonXP board died of mystery not soft-or-hard-resetting 
> problems, then my dad's identical board did the same (Both ASUS A7V8Xs - 

Wow... I knew people hated VIA, but I personally have never had any 
issues with them in any of my own machines and I use(d) them exclusively 
  since at least '96. When I worked in sales we sold thousands of 
VIA-based boards with an extremely low failure rate for PC parts.

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Rick Hamell
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