On the AMD side of things, nVidia chipsets runs stable. I can understand your bad grapes about nVidia on the Intel side. Chipsets from 3rd party manufactures for Intel processors have always been unstable. This is not nVidia's fault. It is more of Intel's fault by monopolying the market on their side. AMD does not because they are mostly open to competition. Basically, AMD feeds on competition while Intel just does not want it even though Intel saids they want competition. Based on that criteria, Intel probably will not license 80x86 to nVidia.

I will not consider buying nVidia chipsets for Intel systems.

I will consider buying nVidia chipsets for AMD systems.

My experience shows otherwise. My old Asus A8N32-SLI paired with an AMD Opteron 165 was far from stable. I would get random BSOD crashes (Windows XP) at least twice a week. When that same CPU was on an Asus A8R-MVP I never had issues.

It wasn't the video card, sound card or hard drive because I migrated all of that to an Intel Core 2 Duo rig with a P35 chipset. Never had stability issues with that setup.

Will never touch anything nVIDIA ever again. By far the most horrible and unstable drivers that I have ever seen.