Negative caching

[Rashkae]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
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> 
> Yea, I know, we are on a tight household budget. My luck is I have two 512
> sticks, and need to buy two. If I do two, I might as well do four. I probably
> have older/pricier ram too. But yea, I guess the handwriting is on the wall.
> 
> Then I have been bit by the intel chipset problem, which has its own set of
> performance issues. So I need a new graphics card, I guess. 
> 

or downgrade to to Intrepid and wait for the Intel stuff to fix itself.
   And you still have the mysterious 1GB of ram missing that I can't
account for now.  Therein is probably your grief when you find the culprit.