lol, looks like everybody EXCEPT me loved socket A, i myself had 3 of them, all of them getting fried or falling off of chairs at the end....
the fact that the surface area was SO tiny is my major turnoff for them.... get a heavy copper HS and you set your tower down the wrong way and you crack your chip, (first one to go).. also had one just die and take the mobo with it... then finnally i made the stupid mistake of setting my 3rd socket A on a chair while i was going to get another tower (got smart and went intel, but never bought another intel since, AMD ftw) and while sitting on that chair it goes tumbling down... cracked the cpu, again (also lost a socket 7 to the same chair, and still use it to lay computers on, ill never learn)
but i do have to say, i think that during that stage of me HATING amd, i never saw how good they were, just the number of them i have lost.... lol.. and the plentiful supply of intel boards and cpus. then i hit P4, then i finnally opened my eyes for my athlon64, and boy this thing flys compared to intel chips... (allthough i with i had an intel right now because of the massive computing power i need, no game for me recently)
./sigh, sorry amd for turning my back on you, i will never do that again!