Graphics issue on Ubuntu 15.04

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After I upgraded to Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 on my work PC I keep having problems with the GUI slowing down. It appears to get progressively (slightly) worse during the course of the day. When this happens single login (CTRL+F1) works fine with no lag.
Once I had it where the GUI froze altogether. Amazingly, the activities button worked fine. However, I couldn't see what I was typing or where but the cursor was also fine (just not the context menus).

RAM is plentiful - I've checked it a few times and I'm using around 4GB out of 8GB when this happens. CPU usage is under 50%.
It's a 3770 (not K), 8GB RAM, Nvidia 650 in a Dell XPS 8500.
I'm using nvidia-349 from the ppa:mamarley/nvidia repos (unless something mucked up somewhere?) and I've tried reinstalling to no avail.

Any tips or is there a tool that would be beficial to run to diagnose further?

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I need a TOP dump.. Before and after drivers are installed... A log cat of the driver install or some kind of log of that... and if you can a grep of your current video devices etc...

System Specs would be nice as well..
and then I may be able to help
Thanks

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Sorry @R00tz31820, I couldn't resist.

I have been having all sorts of problems with gnome on ubuntu 15.04. getting tired of stipid glitches and errors, I upgraded to gnome 3.16 and worked fine for a few days and then GDM stopped working. I'm now on KDE plasma until I decide if I want to stick with ubuntu or obliterate it to install opensuse again. Also, in case it's some kind of animation only bug, try using the Impatience extension.

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LOLS now let's be serious.. Go to OpenSUSE your probably better off there willdrick because your comfy with it.. As for the guy above.. Consider LTS... If you don't want billions of issues all the time

Or we could all just install xfce and tweak it to our liking and never have an issue again hhah(guess you know what I am running)

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Well I've been using ubuntu since Edgy Eft a gazillion years ago. I started searching for new distros and ended up on OpenSUSE because of all the problems the last LTS gave me. To this day the kernel of the LTS doesn't pick up my bluetooth dongle nor my PS3 controller.

XFCE is great, I have fedora with it on my work laptop and it's just stable. But I became addicted to gnome-shell workflow. It was one of the main reasons I ditched windows alltogether. I'll check if OpenSUSE has a stable gnome 3.16 working port now, because kde is driving me insane.

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@takaharu What's the main use for that machine? If it's a production/work machine I would recommend switching to fedora for a more stable and reliable experience, or as @R00tz31820 said, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (If everything works out of the box with it). Since you prefer gnome over unity, I guess it would be better just to get fedora/opensuse with gnome.

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I'm not adverse to using LTS, though I currently have 15.04 installed and don't fancy re-installing, particularly due to the amount that I have to set back up (even after streamlining it). Besides the graphics lag I don't have a problem with this version.
Worst-case scenario I'd re-install 14.04 LTS.

Specs are in first post. What other components do you need?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
drm                   344064  3 nvidia
/dev/dri/card0
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-16-generic root=UUID=7b7e4fc7-ddd9-4bd1-a92d-0ec878c6b02f ro quiet splash
/etc/modprobe.d/
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rare-network.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/modesetting.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx-fbdev.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/mlx4.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf
# modprobe information used for DKMS modules
#
# This is a stub file, should be edited when needed,
# used by default by DKMS.
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
    GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, 
    GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, 
    GL_NV_packed_float_linear, GL_NV_path_rendering, 
[     5.527] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[     5.645] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[     5.646] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[     5.648] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[     5.649] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[     5.649] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[     5.655] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[     5.656] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[     5.656] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[     5.656] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[     6.533] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[     6.549] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
nvidia-smi
-----
Mon May 11 13:17:51 2015       
+------------------------------------------------------+                       
| NVIDIA-SMI 349.16     Driver Version: 349.16         |                       
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 650     Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
| 48%   32C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    981MiB /  2047MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0            C+G   Not Supported                                         |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Top w/ drivers installed

top - 13:10:41 up  3:47,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.23, 0.36
Tasks: 290 total,   1 running, 289 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  4.6 us,  1.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 93.3 id,  0.9 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   8135776 total,  7846988 used,   288788 free,  1689780 buffers
KiB Swap:  8346620 total,    26584 used,  8320036 free.  1384620 cached Mem
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                         
 1297 root      20   0  338596 153828  78040 S   6.3  1.9  11:22.13 Xorg                                                                                                                                            
 1848 jason     20   0 2376868 728212  95916 S   6.3  9.0  13:57.74 gnome-shell                                                                                                                                     
 1951 jason     20   0 2618284 1.087g 124752 S   6.3 14.0  51:37.13 firefox                                                                                                                                         
 9315 jason     20   0  559244 181820  77436 S   6.3  2.2   5:59.90 opera                                                                                                                                           
 9339 jason     20   0  940636 245228  58736 S   6.3  3.0   1:38.62 opera                                                                                                                                           
    1 root      20   0  182864   5536   3640 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.81 systemd                                                                                                                                         
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd                                                                                                                                        
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0                                                                                                                                     
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H                                                                                                                                    
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:08.49 rcu_sched                                                                                                                                       
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh                                                                                                                                          
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:03.24 rcuos/0                                                                                                                                         
   10 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuob/0                                                                                                                                         
   11 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.05 migration/0                                                                                                                                     
   12 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.04 watchdog/0                                                                                                                                      
   13 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.03 watchdog/1                                                                                                                                      
   14 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.04 migration/1                                                                                                                                     
   15 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.17 ksoftirqd/1                                                                                                                                     
   17 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/1:0H                                                                                                                                    
   18 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:01.52 rcuos/1

I'm not in the position currently to purge, reboot and re-install.

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Hmmmm.. so its nvidia.. This makes things far more difficult... are those the beta drivers.. Because if they are try the stable nvidia drivers.. If not.. then check your GLX settings in the nvidia control panel and switch them to performance and disable AA.. Since gnome uses GLX everywhere maybe this may help

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I'm right there with you @R00tz31820 I had been using Gnome and quickly went wtf r u doing gnome?! went to xfce on my server and was like yep installing this on main pc.