Front Row Scan Speed?

Hi,
When playing back movies or tv shows now, Front row seems to jump too far through the movie.
Is there are preference file I can tweak to set this back to the seek speed of Tiger?

The frontside bus is the bus between the CPU and the "northbridge" memory controller. It's the memory controller's bus that determines the RAM bus speed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-side_bus
The memory controller in your MacBook uses 800MHz PC2-6400 RAM. While faster RAM usually will work as long as it meets the same specs otherwise, the system won't benefit from it.
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