Window dragging issues on second display

Hello everyone,
I have secondary display with 1920x1200 resolution and rotated 90° (portrait mode) connected to MB Pro early 2011. After updating to Mountain Lion from AppStore I faced with quite annoying effect on this display: when I drag any window over the desktop it's moving quite jerky. Also all system menus (dis)appearing with pulsing effect. When I drag any window to desktop on MacBook display - everything is smooth and OK.
  Also I noticed that during desktop video capturing (using quicktime) overall perfomance degrades significantly: mouse cursor moves lazily, windows movements are really slow.
  I'm feeling that this is serious software problem.
  Is this known issue? Could someone reproduce it? Any workaround?
HW: MB Pro early 2011,
OS: Mac OS X Mountain Lion,
Secondary display: Dell U2412M, 1920x1200, connected through DisplayPort input.

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SMC:
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