Yeah, the speed of the MMR w/o 32bit ram is aweful!!! You are actually lucky with Tom's 8mb board. It uses SRAM which is about 5% faster than dram (no refresh cycles/delay). You can put 512kb of SRAM on the MMR and it will be really fast! - should put your sysinfo rating about 10% higher than a stock a3000... I just happen to an extra set of those chips, send me a PM if you are interested.
