ITunes using whole lot of computer's memory

I recently reformatted my computer, and it's working great, but iTunes has been very laggy and has lagged other programs that are open. I opened task manager and iTunes jumps from 0% usage of my memory to 40 to 20 to 100 you get the idea. It isn't happenening with any other programs and didn't happen before my reformat. Any ideas? I have turned off the iTunesHelper startup process, is that it?
Thanks

No, my computer is good enough to run it fine, it gets Company of Heroes around with no lag or anything, its got an AMD Athlon FX-53 with a gig of ram, and it's only happened after reformatting my computer. It could be the new update. Any other ideas?

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