text: Very laggy new system. - PCPartPicker
  Very laggy new system.
  Hey, I just finished building my system and installing Ubuntu. The specs are: -r3 1300x -msi b350 PC mate -msi itx GTX 1060 3gb -1x8gb 2400mhz ram -250gb HDD (to be upgraded) -Razer lancehead TE
  The PC is just very laggy in general. I've updated the os too. The cursor moves with lag, the animations are sluggish, and overall the system runs poorly. Any advice on how to fix this? Any help is appreciated, thanks.
  What is the speed of your HDD? And, what are you system and CPU temps?
  My HDD is 7200rpm and I'm not with the PC at the moment so I can't tell you that. Thanks for the help, I'll have to check that later.
  it could be the HDD. I have a 320 gig hard drive I took apart form an old prebuilt a while back. The specs of it were sata 3, 16 megs of cache, 320 gig capacity, 7200, and at a 3.5 size. That thing was very slow.
  The thing is, when I installed Ubuntu, I had a grub installation failure (grub is what enables booting). So I just troubleshooted for a bit, and the performance was good. Then, I decided to reinstall but this time wipe the disk (of prebuilt window s 7 installation) And install Ubuntu again. Everything installed, and I was happy. The prompt to restart the computer pops up, so I do, and then, it gets slow. So I don't know if it's the HDD speed. To be confirmed.
  Yeah unfortunately I know very little about Linux and can't offer up much advice there; only thing I can suggest from this point is the aforementioned CPU and system temp checks and make sure the RAM is running at the right speed in the BIOS.
  Although if you are able to "Live" run a copy of Linux, is it lagging then as well, or only when running the installed copy?
  How do you run a live copy? Not too experienced in pc software you see.
  I have a 1tb 5400rpm drive in my laptop, at the beginning of owning it it was pretty slow, but since windows 10 creators update that seemed to have ironed out the issues, and it works fine now.
  If its not the HDD, I suspect a software issue.
  Ok' i will be getting an ssd sometime in the not too distant future so let's hope that works. I will be checking the bios in the meanwhile for irregularities though.
  Oh an SSD is a good idea, I recommend that. When you do migrate windows from the HDD to that SSD, it will make your PC a lot snappier.