What brand of CPUs is spiritucally closest to Chico?

[TheMonkey]

Correct. My first experience with VIA was the motherboard recommended by AMD for the K6-2... it is an awesome pile of tulipe.

Maximum number of memory modules allowed: 6;

actual number of memory modules which will actually work with the chipset: 1.

Surreal.

In a fit of complete insanity, I purchased a USB 2.0 PCI card.... without noticing the dread VIA logo... took ages to make the fecker work, needed an obscure download from M$ before it eventually agreed to function.

There was even a note on the M$ site that this chipset was indeed a pile of tulipe and M$ was not going to support it for Win2k etc.

You poor soul. I made the mistake of buying one motherboard with a VIA chipset (Asus A7V266-E) and then found out that the PCI interface wasn't quite standard and my sound card just didn't work in it. Only dared to go near Athlons with an nForce chipset recently which also didn't work. I'm Intel only now

[stackpole]

Please vote.

Via, because it is Roman for street, and Rome is where St Peter died wasn't it? And where the pope lives, and all those other connotations from the Holy Romans.

[Francko]

Via, because it is Roman for street, and Rome is where St Peter died wasn't it? And where the pope lives, and all those other connotations from the Holy Romans.

Quite right, Chico is a special subset of the Via technology, called Via Crucis.

[Joe Black]

Is this another piece of the Da Vinci Code?

[AtW]

The right answer is Via because Via's owner/CEO is a religious nut who makes all CPU codenames Bible related, ie: Nehemiah etc.

[WageSlave]

I am growing an army of minature ATWs in the cupboard under the stairs. If anyone would like to see them, please drop me a line; real treat for the whole family.