Thanks for the response. I believe this is a regression. The performance degradation happened after the last update. Am hesitant to do a BIOS upgrade right now.
Giving you my bios information as requested. $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date G2ET92WW (2.52 ) 02/22/2013 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1194947 Title: Power management: Audio codec To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1194947/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs