[NeonSamurai]

I'll have to play with processor affinity some more and see what that does, though these games are new enough were that shouldn't be an issue.

I'm pretty sure its not memory, or the bus speed (or latency), for one thing I can't adjust any of it, also these games don't have the issue in XP. Restricting the memory size to that of XP's didn't fix it either.

Edit: nope not processor affinity, my next two attempts will be to try running it on the pristine install that came from dell, and turning off the page file (don't need it with 6 gigs of ram).