Old ssd 250g that is the C: drive with windows to a newer faster ssd 980 pro 1tb

[unique moon]

Will this make a difference or not the write speeds are obviously higher with the 980 but is it worth bc i do see issues with games i play not preforming to their max potential i have a 4090 and a r9 7950x3d 4.2ghz if you can help thank you need somone that can hop in a vc and help me when they have time duing the day or night

[frail mirage]

You should clone the contents of your old SSD to the 980 Pro and start from there instead. Besides the obvious capacity benefit, it should help quite a bit with most stuff nowadays. There's no point keeping your OS drive on the old drive

As for what to do with the old drive after it gets retired from boot duty, it's up to you, but make sure the computer can start normally with that drive completely disconnected (to rule out boot loader issues) before wiping it

(Modern, good quality NVMe SSDs have significantly higher random read IOPS, and usually costs less CPU to do so)

[unique moon]

@frail mirage so do u suggest that i do put it on a new ssd i have 3 1 for windows the 256 one a 980 for games and a new 990 i just got with 2tb for storage

[frail mirage]

Have the fastest drive be the one that contains your OS and games and stuff, spilling over only when you're out of capacity

Good thing for you that the fastest drive is also the largest drive

However, obviously, you'll need to clone or reinstall Windows to that drive

It's better to get that done anyway, a 250GB drive is insufficient today regardless of if you install games or not

[unique moon]

@frail mirage is it possible to make like out of the 990 2tb to like 250gb for windows and the rest for game or just put it on the same drive together and just name folders

i just like having different drives so it only contains whats in it like storage sense u can use a HDD 1tb for 500 and 500 2 seperate drives

[frail mirage]

There's no point partitioning drives. All you'll be getting is to end up having to manage files more often

It's 2025, not 1993

[unique moon]

lmao yeah ur right

so put everything on the new 990

the 2tb

[frail mirage]

yep

and only start to use the 980 and your very old 250gb ssd after the first ones fills up (less than 200GB remaining)

if you were wondering what you can use?

Well, I'd suppose you can use the 980 as space for file backups

or for older games

[unique moon]

so 990 for windows and the other stuff thats on it already

then the 980 for games and same with the 250 one

the hdd i have i use for like game clips and games that are like solo player not fps based games

[frail mirage]

more like, 990 for just about everything

[unique moon]

okay do you have a video or like exact instructions to move the old C to the new 990

[frail mirage]

Please avoid using "A:" and "B:" as drive letters

It should result in less headaches and be easier to sort things if you let the non-system drives go behind C:

Anyway, for cloning stuff...

[frail mirage]

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-clone-a-hard-drive-on-windows-pc-mac

[unique moon]

@frail mirage hey

should i turn this on

instead of me doing it in bios

[unique moon]

I followed it and it removed my 990 from the files page and just created a new copy of the C to G

[unique moon]

@frail mirage is there a way to revert this to start over or just delete the G bring back the 990 one and have it part of the 2tb idk what it did

[unique moon]

@frail mirage everything above is all good i just have a question now so i did everything correctly i just didnt filly wipe the old os system just disabled it from the boot menu in bios and have it just as a spare storage on my pc can i keep it there just for the next week to go through and make sure i got everything or will it cause issues with my system its not being used at all just the new 990 2tb is

[frail mirage]

Please test your system and see if it can boot with neither of the two other drives connected

To make sure that the bootloader is set up correctly and to prevent problems when you reuse the drive

(aka: only the 990 inside)

[unique moon]

@frail mirage so take out the old ssd? completely and try the reboot then can i put it back in and just leave it there

[unique moon]

Both the ssds boot i tried them already

[frail mirage]

No, what's meant is that if the computer still boots with no other SSDs installed. Only have the 990 inside.

[unique moon]

@frail mirage idk if im understanbding still so no other ssds in just the 990 bc i have 3 ssds and a hdd total in the pc

remove all ssd but the 990?

[frail mirage]

Yes. Just make sure that the computer can start properly with just the 990 inside. If that's the case, you probably are ready to wipe the other two SSDs or repurpose them

[unique moon]

is it safe just to be able to take out the other 2 ssds and boot just unplug them nothing special right?

[frail mirage]

Yes

Once you can confirm that the PC boots normally (instead of going into something else) plug them back in and do whatever you need to do with them

[unique moon]

@frail mirage this has been going on recently where my screen will have these lines and flicker then stop when i turn off nvidia clipping and when i played valorant yesterday one part of the map the texture was like a glitch screen all was purple or black with pixles

[frail mirage]

This looks like a different and more serious issue

Can you consistently reproduce it? How about an older driver?

[echo nexus]

Ideally, use DDU (AutoDDU can be told to use a custom driver link, or you can use the manual version located here.)

Alternatively, if you had the NVIDIA App installed in the life of both the previous driver and the current one, you can go to the driver page inside the app and select the rollback option.

Never use the rollback option in Device Manager; this will break the drivers and any apps that rely on it. You'll end up needing to DDU for real anyway, so you did double the work.

[frail mirage]

If an older driver also causes these, see if setting a negative memory speed offset in Afterburner reduces or eliminates it

[unique moon]

@frail mirage im going to try that also i did the ssd took them out it booted and then i put them back in so i should be good to clear it

[frail mirage]

Yep. To be safe, back up your personal files now to a HDD so that in case you do need to reinstall Windows due to a bootloader failure, it's painless

[unique moon]

can i put it on a flashdrive? or do the HDD

and a vid if u have one

[frail mirage]

even better if it's external

[unique moon]

@frail mirage it looks like this

people on discord see it when i stream same with me in game but it just started now

[frail mirage]

Game textures aren't being loaded correctly. Try reinstalling the game first.

[unique moon]

could i try a repair

or full reinstall

[frail mirage]

Try the first one first

[unique moon]

i think it might be my motherboard with the AMD adrenaline it just caused my screen to go black and all and now its fixed and it had my whole pc freeze

since my motherboard has a intergrated amd gpu in it can i uninstall the amd adrenaline app thats what might be causing issues

if i uninstall it will it be bad for my pc?

[unique moon]

which one first uninstalling it?

[frail mirage]

There shouldn't be a problem but I'd probably disable the iGPU in the motherboard first

[unique moon]

how do i do that

[frail mirage]

What motherboard?

[unique moon]

https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-x670e-plus-wifi/helpdesk_bios?model2Name=TUF-GAMING-X670E-PLUS-WIFI

[frail mirage]

Then use DDU to remove all AMD GPU drivers and their software.

[unique moon]

can u send the link for DDU

is it this

[frail mirage]

https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

yep

[unique moon]

do i do the mirror USA right or the ones on the far right

should i also use this tool to delete all NVIDIA updates and re do the new one

[frail mirage]

whichever is closer

[frail mirage]

DDU will remove all NVIDIA drivers and most driver-related apps

[unique moon]

@frail mirage

hey so i downloaded the DDU

[frail mirage]

First time? Just accept the defaults. Then make sure GPU > NVIDIA was selected, then Clean and Restart

[unique moon]

which one do i do

[frail mirage]

You need to extract it

[unique moon]

extract then exe

[frail mirage]

yep. It likely will extract again

[unique moon]

should i launch my pc in safe mode before doing this or its fine

also which do i check off

i was thinking of doing a clean NVIDIA install and get rid of the AMD thing I already disabled the intergrated graphics in bios

[frail mirage]

change nothing here

[frail mirage]

You should also run a AMD GPU driver wipe. For this, use "Clean and DO NOT restart"

Do the AMD one first, then NVIDIA

[frail mirage]

Ideally yes

[unique moon]

so leave the options page as is right?

[frail mirage]

Yes

[unique moon]

do i select driver type

[unique moon]

like this

[unique moon]

run safe mode first right

then do this

[unique moon]

Doing the AMD one now

In safe mode

I did what u said clean and no restart

What do I do for the nvidia one

Clean and restart?

[unique moon]

@frail mirage

[frail mirage]

Yes

[unique moon]

What do I have to do after do I have to redownload the nvidia app on line?

If so could u send me a link to the download please