IMHO, the verdict is still out on this one because it can take hours or days until this slowdown occurs, from my experience. i'm taking extra care not to restart my system so i can see if it is indeed memory related or not. i am also trying to run performance-intensive apps to speed up the results.

we've got varying setups, from what i can see. firewalk's specs as he told me are:
"asus 690 chipset sb600 i think m2a-vm hdmi,CPU: amd x2 4800 (no overclocking),RAM: 4gb ddr2 800mhz, Video Card: ati X1650 ddr3 256 dual dvi."

he and i have nothing in common, system-wise. i have an NF4 chipset and 1GB DDR2 400MHz, not to mention a different GPU. so that sounds a little fishy to me. Ianxxx, what were your specs?