There is plenty of aneccdotele evidence of this trouble on the WWW.
The plural of anecdote is NOT data.
There is plenty of anecdotal eveidence of just about *anything* on the WWW.
Web forums are particularly prone to 'Squeaky Wheel Syndrome'; People with problems are more likely to go looking for help in these places, they're more likely to complain in these places and thus make it look like a lot more poeple are having problems than you might think, blowing a low (say 5%) failure rate into something like 45% by the time you're done reading all the complaints, rants and raves.
Moreover, these places are chock-full of amateur technicians who are just *certain* that their problem is X, when actually, the problem lies with Y, something entirely different from X.
In the matter of processor upgrades, flaky RAM is a frequent culprit.
People will install a G4 upgrade into their mac that has the original two 8, three assorted 16's, a 32, a 64 and a 128 Mb dimm installed and they blame new processor card for their failures, and no amount of arguing will convince them otherwise because 'It ran just fine before I did this!' (and someone else will chime in and say "Mine works with ram like that!" just to muddy the waters.)
:-/
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