At least you can hard reset the new ones. I had one of the older A50s. With the old ones, you have to drain the battery over about 24 hours when it gets hung up. This is an old issue. I liked the headphones but the repeated outages while the battery drained were too much. It got...
I owned an EVGA 680i SLI (nForce) and it ran like a champ for about 3-4 years... until it hit capacitor-gate. EVGA replaced it with an X58. Overall it worked fine for me until the capacitors started going. It wasn't the best motherboard but for me it didn't come close to the worst.
I'm in the same position. I bought my X58 system back in December 2008. It has been rock solid and has been water cooled for a number of years. I have upgraded the video card a time or two but the system is basically the same.
I'm in the process to upgrading to a X99 system with a...
Unless you are doing something on the hardware level or graphcs intensive, that is what VM's are there to handle. Regardless of whether your on a mac or windows machine, VM's can work for most development/support if your host won't work.