> There are some newer boards coming out now with other chipsets
> supporting DDR, btw. They'll cost more but an FSB at 266Mhz and
> DDR ram is well worth it.
did you test effective memory transfer rate (something like dd
if=/dev/zero bs=64k|dd of=/dev/null bs=64k) on such board.

especially with VIA product the fact it uses faster clocks and components
doesn't mean it's faster.