Punkbuster, ATI and Nvidia: Freezing in your online FPS favorites?

Cheating in online games has become a problem of epidemic proportions spawning a whole industry of anti-cheating A/V like tools. Hardcore gamers are the ones that push the edge in hardware adoption as they are the ones snapping up X800s and NForce 3 boards. For gamers, the two most frustrating things in the world are probably cheaters and hardware problems. Besides the common thread of gaming, it seems that the two spheres of hardware and cheating are separate but it has come to my attention that the two have become inextricably linked.