Core i7 iMacs become sluggish after 1-2 days of use.

Nobody seems to have this issue, but I'm on my replacement Core i7 and both machines suffer the symptom of becoming very sluggish after 1-2 days of use. I've checked activity monitor and my CPUs are practically idle, and I can quit all my apps and have gigs of ram available. But anything running is very sluggish after a few days being on. The only fix is to restart the computer.
When I say sluggish, I mean apps freeze randomly, switching between apps and even tabs within apps take seconds, and even tabbing between text fields is slow.
I'm really not sure what it could be. Anyone else suffer these symptoms? After a restart, my system is blazing fast. After about a day and a half, it's much slower than my macbook pro. I still don't know if this is a hardware or software issue.

Hi,
when I first bought the iMac i7, I though I would be amazed by the speed, but I wasn't at all.
I've tried to do fresh install, and after that, install apps one by one, new settings, etc, except my home folder which I imported. Not much changed.
In my opinion takes too much time to open iTunes or iPhoto, and I don't have libraries too large, just about 10 Gigs each... still, scrolling within these apps is not as smooth as I would expect.
Also, I've tried playing Dragon Age: Origins via Bootcamp and OSX, it works very goos within the first hour, but when it starts to heat up, it becomes very sluggish and the frame rate drops very significantly.
The heat, the heat is something very noticeable when running for a while, also is summer time in Spain right now, that doesn't help much, but still, comparing with my iMac CoreDuo (early 2006), it gets too warm and the difference in speed is not as you would expect from a widely claimed "beast".
Since this happens using Windows 7 or Snow Leopard, I do not think is a software issue, but hardware related.
will wait for winter to enjoy a better machine I guess..

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