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Don't expect me to help solving issues of a random user at NBR, seriously. When someone has a question or an issue and is looking for our advice then it's up to him to create a post or thread here and we will gladly try to help, but T|I is not a support site for problems on other forums.

Tbh it's very subjective whether $500 extra is worth for this refinement. For example, that is the price range of new 7970M cards that provide much better performance gain on systems with dedicated GPUs. My opinion is that upgrading each generation still gives pretty poor value for your money, but it depends a lot on a specific game one plays. That said, I am very aware that the difference between 45FPS and 30FPS in a game like BF3 is massive, but one could probably tune the game a bit by lowering it's graphic settings and reach ~60 FPS, which is for me the good number for very smooth play. I would say then the question is whether the $500 is worth the upgrade in graphics you get between R1 and R2 at that 60FPS frame rate (or whatever number you like to make it good for you). In some games, the difference will most likely be even greater: these scores show about 50% FPS increase in Metro (this is obviously HUGE). On the other hand, if you're playin just Diablo3 it would have been a wasted money for the upgrade -- in that case it would make more sense (if the goal is to improve gaming) to invest in a better (external) screen, keyboard, mouse or good quality headphones. P.S. It's a great that the GPU runs pretty cool.

Talk about gaming thug life. (Warning contains skrillex)

Build 1620 (and later) adds preliminary support for fan speed monitoring of those models.