Photoshop fast in morning and then slows down

Hey everyone. I hope someone can help me with this because I haven't found anything on Google. At least, nothing that works. When I first get to work in the mornings, the big banner files I have open very quickly. However, after about an hour goes by, Photoshop slows down and everything takes so long to open. Any ideas on what might be causing this and how I can fix it? Help would be greatly appreciated!

Yup, definitely sounds like a memory problem, but if you post information about your system, OS, 32/64Bit, Photoshop version etc, someone may be able to give you more detailed help.
I'm assuming that MikeJones11x was talking about an SSD (Solid State Drive) in his answer above, and he's right, adding an SSD to a system with give you a huge performance boost, but you need to be careful.
Never use an OS/Apps SSD as your Scratch Disk; if you want your Scratch Disk on an SSD, install a second one, which is what I've done in my own system. Another thing to be wary of is the Controller in an SSD, depending on whether it's being used for the OS/Apps, or as a Scratch Disk.
This is a fairly complicated subject, and I won't go into any more detail in this reply, but if you'd like to investigate this further please either post a reply here, or e-mail me, I'll be glad to help if I can.
Good luck
Paul

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Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000047AC834E PC=0x0000000000821D3C
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         com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x7ff000
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.2)@0x5fc000
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
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