Tom's Hardware Guide has put up a comparison of 19 motherboards with Intel's 845 Chipset

Everybody wanted it, now it's finally here: a Pentium 4 chipset from Intel that offers high performance and does not require expensive Rambus memory (RDRAM). 'DDR' has been a fabulous catchword for AMD's Athlon, so why shouldn't this work out for Intel's sweetheart, too? DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM offers twice the bandwidth of PC133 SDRAM, serving the Pentium 4's 400 MHz quad-pumped bus better than the latter ever could. The overall performance has now reached a very good level and everybody should be happy, but why aren't we?

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