I've always wondered why the companies who make BIOS' either have terrible engineering psychologists or none at all. But without wasting your time further with random speculative questions, my real question is as follows:

Why does my new computer run slower than my old computer?

Old Computer:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU @ 3.0 Ghz (stock)
4GB OCZ DDR2 800 RAM
Wolfdale E8400 mb
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT

New Computer:

Intel Core i7 920 @ ~3.2 Ghz
6 GB OCZ DDR3 1066 RAM
EVGA x58 SLI LE motherboard
nVidia GeForce GTX 275

Vista x64 Home Premium on both.

"Run slower" is defined as: - poorer FPS performance in the same games, applications - takes longer to start up - general desktop usage (checking email, opening up files, running exe's) is noticeably slower

At first I thought I must've not set something up in the BIOS or something. But I have no idea how to set anything in the bios except for "Dummy O.C.", which brought me to ~3.2 Ghz. But beyond that I have no idea. I've been reading stuff about "ram timing" and voltages and the like but I really have no idea about that stuff. I'm a psychologist who has a basic understanding in building his own computers, not a computer scientist. Can someone give me some wisdom that might guide me to the reason my new computer is worse than my older one?

I'm sorry if this is a bad question, or not appropriate to SO. I'm just pretty frustrated now and you all have helped me in the past so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Thanks for your time.