Except the topic is going from 5122MB to 1GB which precludes that now doesn't it ?

Those chip-sets that had that problem would not even reach 512MB.

Dave



"Jan Knutar" <shadowjksp@yahoo.se> wrote in message news:5u89g1-d1k.ln1@breadbin.mine.nu...
| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
| > Please provide an example.
| > I can't come up with any scenario where more physical RAM will slow down a
| > OS.
|
| There were plenty of threads when Seti@home was new, about people who added
| memory and saw slower seti times. This was due to some motherboards not
| caching memory above 64M, and S@h happened to get stuck in memory above 64M
| which was slower.
|