ravagemonkey, You said that no process was taking more than 3% of the CPU cycles. Did you run Task Manager while a program is acting very slow ?

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HijackThis log looks clean to me, no problems there.

i ran task manager while all programs were shut down and it seems to me that it is a video thing, because it runs smoothly until a window is minimized/maximized/game running

that's the key. Wait until the task manager is spiking, and then sort by cpu usage and see what is using all the processor resources.

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Hey Ravage-- have you tracked this down yet ?? I have been off site for a few days (life gets in the way)

You have a hardware list-- but we can't see it without permission.
My "canned hardware-speech":

I suggest-- when you repost-- go into "My PCHF" under site navigation under "edit options" --scroll down the list.List all your hardware (including brands + models) in the spaces-- at the top-- there is an option to "allow others to view my specs" click on yes. It saves a lot of time between posts if while you check something I can go look up your Motherboard manufacturer's site and read the manual.
You can also list your Operating System...all this is a great time-saver for us-- we can view everything quickly to refresh our memories... as we are all working multiple threads at once.This would be automatic from that point on-- so if you have another problem six months from now-- we can instantly know what you have.