Mcafee Raid and Stutters

After Reading an earlier post i turned off my mcafee antivirus and teh stutter i had been experienceing earlier on dissapeared but its not the smartest of workarounds anyone know of any other way past this?
What was happening was anytime i played any music games or videos i would get a slight pause in playback this would cause sound or video to skip a little bit
My set up
K7t266 Pro 2
Athlon 1600xp
512 DDR
Geforce 2 GTS
13Gb Maxtor
20 GB Quantum
Sparkle 450wPSW
20Gb Quantum on IDE3 as single drive
Windows XP-
Mcafee Virus scann 6
I spent forever dowlaoding the latest drivers but none of them made any difference to the stutter till i turned off mcafee i got the latest drivers for that as well
Thanks for any help

One reason that I tell all of my Network Clients to use AVG 6.0...It works!! It doesn't mess with your system like McAfee and Norton do (they both suck the big...er...nm you get the idea heheheh)
They're VERY intrusive into your system, kinda sad tho, McAfee wasn't like that when it first came out but they soon became very Norton like, and the way they do what they do causes your system to stutter and all kinds of neat little things that will drive you batty. Those of us old DOS dogs hated Norton then and I suspect hate them now as well. It's the most common AV I uninstall from my clients machines. I replace it with a FREE AV program that works and catches everything if it's kept updated...
Now of course folx this is my opinion so plz don't flame me just cause I don't like something heheheh
Cheers! 8)

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Hi,
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http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata5pm2se2.html
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The performance is USB speed even with a FW800 connection.
Users have reported losing data with firmware updates.
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I like SuperDuper. I also like using the "Restore" tab in Disk Utility to clone one disk to another. The key to good backup is to keep it simple and regular.
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