Re:What about stability? (Score 1)

Yeah. I may have overstated the "like a rock" part. Plus, I was refering to most of the benchmarks that I've read, which seem to pit Intel P4's w/ Intel chipsets against AMD Athlon's w/ Via chipsets. I think it may be a Via issue more than anything, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

And just to prove I'm not making this up, heres what Tom's Hardware had to say in this article:

Another factor is the stability and product quality of a system: while all Athlon processors suffered from occasional instability in our tests, the Pentium 4 platform ran without a glitch. Reasons for this behaviour might not lie in the processor itself, but rather in the motherboard design and the chipset used.

So, there you go.