Aurora R12, HDD to SSD help

Migrate HDD to SSD using Macrium reflect (Free tool): HDD to SSD 

Yes, but I would additionally move and lock the windows swap file to the SSD also.

thank you. Do you think just adding a 2nd SSD and reinstalling games on the SSD drive would give it a noticeable performance boost even though it's booted from a regular HDD?

or would it be a performance upgrade to just add the SSD and install games on that drive instead of the boot drive?

Boot Windows from a M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD and keep your games on a SATA SSD. It is 2022 my friend . . . throw the HDD spinner in the trash.

What components do you have in the R12 (CPU, graphics card, PSU, RAM, liquid or air cooled)? Perhaps we can improve the performance over and above the digital drives.

plev,

I doubt that the root of poor performance in games and Windows is solely based on HDD.

What is "major lag"? Is that reference to network lag or video lag?

What operating system?

Have you optimized the operating system by uninstalling unnecessary software?

What troubleshooting have you and your son done?

Thanks! What is the easiest way to do this? Clean install/factory reset on everything? Can i copy stuff from drive to drive? 

Specs:

1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s

16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 3200MHz, XMP

11th Gen Intel Core i7 11700F (8-Core, 16MB Cache, 2.5GHz to 4.9GHz w/Intel Turbo Boost Max)

Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply

Specs are good . . . graphics card??

As Vanadiel mentioned above; use Macrium Reflect free software to clone your HDD operating system and files to a M.2 NVMe SSD. Then non-operating system files can be moved to a SATA SSD or the programs/games reinstalled on the SATA SSD.

Game is choppy/laggy. Not sure if it's video/network related..In COD before he fires for example, it locks up for a quick sec, then fires..

We increased the VRAM allocation in COD config, messed with fan setting using fusion, downloaded some other software to do something. Tried lower resolution in the game..He simply cannot play COD. First try is usually ok but goes south after a few games. GTA 5M mod kinda the same thing.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6

will this work for both the boot drive and also store applications/games on it?

Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe

It should but it will link at Gen 3 x 4 if I am not mistaken. The official R12 specifications list the M2 slot at a maximum of 32 Gbps, which is Gen 3 x 4.

R12 specifications 

What are the CPU and graphics card temperatures when things go south?

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@ProfessorW00d wrote:

Boot Windows from a M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD and keep your games on a SATA SSD. It is 2022 my friend . . . throw the HDD spinner in the trash.

 

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@plev 

Totally agree.

C-Drive: NVMe-SSD for Windows and programs
D-Drive: SATA-SSD for large games

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@plev wrote:

will this work for both the boot drive and also store applications/games on it?

Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe

 

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that is a nice/fast SSD. It should work fine.

Right, if your C-Drive is big enough, it will have plenty of space to hold Windows, all your Programs and Apps, 2-3 of your Favorite Games, and even some data/media files.

If you still have plenty of space, go ahead and load ALL your games and ALL your media-files to the C-Drive. Just try to leave about 100-200gb free at all times. 

Since it's large and kinda pricey, it would also be a good idea to Over-Provision it by 5-10% (if you know how).