[dantewaters]

2.7 powermac... to me it runs slow takes about 35secs to open photoshop
and take over 12hrs to do some color correcting in fcp... This is with 6gigs of ram installed... What's wrong? Should I reinstall Tiger?

Here's a system resource screen shot: http://tinyurl.com/e58pk

[dantewaters]

take a look at this: http://tinyurl.com/o2qlv

[Big Mac]

When the RAM failed in my iBook after a year of fine performance, it caused everything to go a 1/100th of its normal speed. A bad stick of RAM will not necessarily prevent the machine from booting or appearing to run normally, but it could cause it run very slowly.

[dantewaters]

Seems to me the cause of all this was due to a bad harddrive...
We have reinstalled os X and photo went down to 4secs.

The problem was there before the new ram was installed.

[Todd Madson]

Bad ram can cause all kinds of problems from freezing/lockups to slow and
inconsistent performance, you name it. The same goes for hard drives.

Looks like you solved it.