Sierra dragging on Mac Pro 5,1

[threemonkeyzoo]

Mac pro 5,1, new in mid 2013, 3.3 ghz, 6 core, 48 gb ram, 250 gb ssd boot disk, 3tb hd, 1 tb hd, mac gtx680 card.
I just installed Sierra last week, and boy is it slow and laggy. I've looked up everything I could find for a fix, pram reset, smc reset, file cleaners, ect,,doesn't help. Especially noticeable opening itunes and mail, they really seem to crawl. And streaming radio on itunes just doesn't even work anymore.General internet seems ok, but everything has a lag to it, not at all snappy like El Capitan. Any ideas before I have to go back to El Capitan?

 

[Yahooligan]

Any chance you installed it on one of the HDDs and not the SSD?

I have Sierra running on a 5,1, 64GB memory, 12-core 3.46GHz, 480GB+1TB Fusion drive, GTX 680 and zero lag whatsoever, everything is quick.

 

[threemonkeyzoo]

Any chance you installed it on one of the HDDs and not the SSD?

I have Sierra running on a 5,1, 64GB memory, 12-core 3.46GHz, 480GB+1TB Fusion drive, GTX 680 and zero lag whatsoever, everything is quick.

Thanks, no, it's on the ssd

 

[Sharky II]

Check out activity monitor to see if something is eating up resources, such as spotlight indexing etc

 

[threemonkeyzoo]

Check out activity monitor to see if something is eating up resources, such as spotlight indexing etc

thanks, yes, I did, nothing was using a majority, or even close. Really weird.

 

[flowrider]

^^^^Something's very wrong. Sierra is very snappy for me.

Lou

 

[threemonkeyzoo]

^^^^Something's very wrong. Sierra is very snappy for me.

Lou

I don't know if it has anything to do with it,, but when I booted in safe mode to see if it was snappier, there was much screen flickering. Rebooted in normal mode and none.

 

[devon807]

I don't know if it has anything to do with it,, but when I booted in safe mode to see if it was snappier, there was much screen flickering. Rebooted in normal mode and none.

Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I had that issue because I upgraded over Yosemite to El Cap on my 3,1 and Ihad the same issue. Try doing a clean install meaning create a bootable USB of Sierra, erase the SSD and reinstall

 

[h9826790]

Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I had that issue because I upgraded over Yosemite to El Cap on my 3,1 and Ihad the same issue. Try doing a clean install meaning create a bootable USB of Sierra, erase the SSD and reinstall

You can easily format the SSD and reinstall the latest OS in recovery partition, no need to create any USB drive.

 

[threemonkeyzoo]

Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I had that issue because I upgraded over Yosemite to El Cap on my 3,1 and Ihad the same issue. Try doing a clean install meaning create a bootable USB of Sierra, erase the SSD and reinstall

Yes, I upgraded vs clean install. I'll give it a shot, thanks
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You can easily format the SSD and reinstall the latest OS in recovery partition, no need to create any USB drive.

Thanks,