Slow brush in CS5

Hi
Just bought CS5 and the usual problem that so many others are having. The functions work fine but when it comes to paint with a brush it lags a second behind. The bigger the brush the more it lags. Turning off openGL does nothing and changes the setting to basic only gives a slight improvement. It was a big file I was working with (180MB) and so I was able to cut it down (19MB) but nothing changed. I realise this isn't much different from the other posts of it's kind but I'm including my system info to see if anyone can gauge anything from that. Never had this problem with CS2.
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.4 (12.0.4x20110407 [20110407.r.1265 2011/04/07:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1
System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:3, Stepping:1 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 2100 MHz
Built-in memory: 4094 MB
Free memory: 2384 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 3452 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 90 %
Image tile size: 132K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic OpenGL
Allow Normal Mode: True. OpenGL
Allow Advanced Mode: False.
OpenGL Crash File: Not Detected.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 900, right: 1440
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Driver Version: 8.634.1.0
Driver Date: 20090729000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Video Card Memory: 512 MB
Serial number: 92628649330105843298
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled Scratch volume(s): C:\, 116.2G, 26.7G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
Any insight would be great.
Thanks

I hope they're sending you another, different card.
An anecdote I'm fond of recalling...
A long time ago I had a very expensive nVidia Quadro FX video card. It cost over $1000 new at the time.
When I moved up to Vista and Aero I was assured that the card could and would handle it. But it never handled it very well, even though nVidia claimed it should, and even though they released new "unified" drivers that included it. It was never stable, even though performance was acceptable. Things were better with the original drivers shipped on the Vista disc, but even with those it didn't work right, and the system would crash from time to time. With the new driver releases things were actually getting worse. It became clear that nVidia had left me behind, even though I had given them a lot of $$$ only a year before.
I fought the issue for literally months, and I was beginning to think all the bad hype about Vista was true.
Finally, in exasperation I went down to the local high tech store, and for about a hundred bucks I picked up a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 1GB DDR3.
The difference was NIGHT AND DAY, and I'm still using that card today with Windows 7.
I've never looked back. The only reason I have a nVidia card on one workstation here is that it's primarily a server and sees no real interactive use (save for some software testing, for which I find it advantageous to have various different video card brands on hand).
If they don't ship you an ATI card, try something like the new 5670 (or even a 4670 if you can find one really cheap).
-Noel

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