Serious lag in Windows 8.1

Hello all,
I have just recently got my shiny new iPhone 5S and thus found it necessary to use iTunes to sync local content such as music.
The problem I have however is there is serious lag trying to navigate through the system. I use two finger scrolling on my touchpad and this lags so badly it's pretty unusable, and if I click on an album the animation as the album art expands to show is also really bad. Finally, if I start to sync music with the phone the CPU usage rockets up to 90+% and again grinds to a halt.
I have used iTunes 11 on another Windows 8.1 machine which works really smoothly so I don't believe there is particularly a problem with Windows or iTunes.
Has anybody else had anything similar? I'm considering rebuilding my laptop with Windows 8.1 and seeing if that helps but it's a little extreme currently. Everything else on my laptop works fine which for the record is an i5 2.3GHz cpu, with 8GB of RAM and uses an SSD.
Thanks,

Also, what drivers are you running, specifically, with what GPU?
I ask because there are multiple sources for drivers, and some folks get them from the wrong place.  The best source is the web site of the maker of the video card.
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