Let me be a little more specific in that last statement. I didn't mean to say that the AMD processors themselves are more picky. I meant that the particular combination of AMD-based motherboard/BIOS and high-performance graphics card causes a situation where reliability is more dependent on getting the drivers and the BIOS settings just right. I'm sure the actual CPU has less to do with it than does the motherboard and BIOS code. And for that matter, it could just be that the people that write video card drivers simply do more QA on Intel platforms. Even if it's got nothing to do with the CPU itself, it's still something I need to consider when building a system.