Every board they tested (IWILLXP333, nForce, all KT266A boards, etc.) performed within just a few percent of each other. I think we're starting to see DDR's performance limitations (DDR266 that is).
DDR is tricked out SDRAM, albeit a very good trick, tricks only go so far . With memory, the big issue(imo) right now is MHZ, DDR is WAYYYYYYY behind the times, and so is RDRAM. I'm pretty upset that we have 1.6ghz+ Procs out there and all we have is 133mhz memory to use it with. Just look at RDRAM, it's at 400mhz, completely crippled by its 16bit pathways, and, still manages to whoop the sh*t(maybe not whoop, but beat) out of DDR or any other memory that is currently available. Why havent AMD and Intel pushed for higher bus speeds!!!, we all know the performance increase is HUGE going from 100mhz to 133mhz fsb. Why push the opperating frequency to such high levels when you could bump up the fsb speed by even a paltry 66mhz, ultimately producing the same results?.. Thats my question, computers could be so much faster than they are right now and that REALLY bugs me. Is there any reason why we arent seeing any large jumps in memory and fsb speed like we are seeing with Proc. speeds?. Oh, and by the way, DDR is in NO WAY twice as fast as SDRAM, that 266mhz thing is complete bull.