VAIO Z112 slowdown

Hello all,
I've been noticing some slight jerkiness in my VAIO Z lately. I first noticed this with the videogame mass effect 2 which ran super smoothly on my VAIO Z and now jerks every now and then. This has never happened before and I have played through the game twice. Also the mouse now seems ever so slow from time to time. I have enabled write back cache as per instructions for new Z owners. Is there anything else you can recommend I do to get my Z back into shape besides reinstalling windows7 professional. This slowdown really bothers me, just last week I was bragging to someone about how fast my machine is.
Many thanks

 

one more thing. I have only 32 gb left on my 128gb hard drive. Also, as I type this I am using 2.63gb of memory (not playing mass effect only using google chrome, sql developer and firefox). Don't know how normal this is.

 

Sounds like SSD performance has dropped through the floor due to lack of TRIM. Best thing is to wipe SSDs clean with low-level format (not sure if it's possible but someone else might say if it it) and reinstall everything, it's gonna get only worse from now on.

 

Check in vaio control panel whether you have silent cooling mode enabled or not. I don't think that is an SSD-related issue.

 

hi pyro, my thermal setting is set to Silent Mode. I really hope it's not an SSD issue, I added the Intel RST for trim support.

 

Intel RST won't make any difference. SSDs are raided and TRIM (even if it's supported by SSDs themselves, some SSD don't have it, like Toshiba drives on Zs) doesn't work for raided SSDs

Hopefully that's not the issue after all I guess the silent mode slows down your CPU, not SSDs

 

@pyro - thanks a lot. I switched it to balanced and now no slowdowns. I am very very pleased and happy again with my VAIO Z.
@anzial didn't know the intel rst was snake oil. will have to keep an eye on that.

 

Yeah silent mode throttles your CPU and GPU so that the temps remain lower so your fan doesnt have to spin as much or as fast which means it's more silent

 

Yeah, I'm feeling with you. I had the same issue when gaming the first time with my Z. I like to use the silent mode in office and web browsing (dont need the full throttle then) and need to turn it off when getting all out of the laptop. I set the Thermal Strategy switch to my hot button in vaio control, so I can change the settings when I need it.

 

That's the worse advice I've ever heard. Not trying to attack you, but someone's computer is slow and you immediately blame it on a problem that hasnt even been confirmed yet? And a low level format? I'm glad somebody chimed in with the correct response before you wasted hours of op's time.