I suppose that by "everything" you mean "everything that is not OS and applications".
If that is the case, the swap file should be on the SSD along with the OS, with a fixed size whose value, now that we do not have as many space problems, should match the one recommended by Windows, no matter how high it seems to us.

Unfortunately, there is nothing less reliable than the "eyeball".
If, in its day, with the old font, you had passed a benchmark and, with the new font, you were to do it again, then we would have something reliable to work with.
If you can set up the old one, set it up and pass a benchmark, and then pass the same one at the same level but with the new font.

If there are notable discrepancies in favor of the old one, we will already have a reliable basis on which to discuss. But a priori, my computer does not run faster by having one font or another, in any case quite the opposite.
;D