Using Large Brushes makes my system stutter a little...

I have a new computer with AMD x4 processor, ATI Radeon HD4870 graphics card and 8GB RAM. It's also on Vista 64bit.
Everything seems OK but using a large brush in a large image seemes to go a bit stuttery. Should this be expected and is there anything to do with preferences or set-up that I could be looking at?
Thanks
Martin

just the usual, make sure that you have the 11.0.1 patch installed for Photoshop and that your video card drivers are up to date.

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