Final Cut 5.1.2 Extremely Slow

Hi, I just got my crossgrade discs and installed in my machine, then I did the updater. Now when I have used FCP it has been extremely slow. When I try and play video in the timeline it says I am dropping frames, If I try and toggle through the timeline it is extremely slow and I get my spinning beach ball. Any suggestions why I am getting this. Should I re install fresh. When I upgraded I still have V. 5.0 on my system. Any help much appreciated

You might try the following: Repair permissions, run diskwarrior on startup drive and media drives.
Where is your media? Is there at least 10% free disk space on all drives? Your startup drive should probably have more free space than that.
What format is the video you are playing?

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a slight pause when the icon bounced on the dock and I came across all sorts of errors, especially in
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put all the information back from the backup.
It would have been much better to find the problem than to just move it around.
All you have done is create a RAID where none was needed. When you moved your clone back to the RAId, you only moved all of the original problems to a new drive.
You are probably looking at a complete scorched earth-style reformat and reinstallation of everything from scratch since you've done so much damage.
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The recommendation on here, mostly, is to only buy RAM from macsales.com or crucial.com as they guarantee their modules will work and offer a no quibble lifetime guarantee.
I'd put the original RAM back in, return the Corsair chips for a refund and re-order from one of those two companies.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac
http://www.crucial.com/

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