hey i would say thats normal well in my case it is
well my specs are lower then yours by only a bit on my laptop and mine plays fine and i have huge db on with few all players from countries and pretty much about 10 leagues running and mine runs fine at times when its doin all the results it can slow down a bit but not at all when im actualy playing
i can also say msn messenger can slow is down considerably as messenger seems to be a very demanding program for pretty much nothing lol so closing it can help speed up ive noticed
i could also recomend on the processes making fm.exe a higher priority program but this can affect your system so if u do its at your own cost but ive done it a few times when there was alot of fixtures it needed to do results for and it didnt affect my system while it did make fm run faster but aslong as u make sure to put it back to normal priority after otherwise it can start to affect important processes | 
