Andy Roberts

You'll have more luck buying the gaming computer and doing some mining to pay it off. You can try with the 6670, but good luck.

They're smartphones. Either way, the battery will degrade sooner or later. The difference is minimal.

+1 Go the AMD route for mining. They outperform nVidia at compute performance any day. Here's the hardware comparison link: https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

Yes, that's the newest driver.

Check the default graphics settings for the game. That's caused me way too many crashes. And definitely verify the game cache or installation media if you can.

There are a lot of other things that play into FPS than the GPU. If he's running more/faster RAM, or a newer CPU, or even a faster hard drive, it could easily add some FPS.

What's his build like?

When Morgan Freeman smiles, a baby appears in a field full of kittens.

I think that noise is probably normal, spinning up a 2TB beast. They definitely don't come fragmented. That comes with the amount of data that you put on and how much of that data you actually use.

Backup your OS in case of a driver failure, but the new motherboard install should be fine. Those sound like some driver problems, probably fixed through some updates. It was probably caused by the new graphics card, just needs newer drivers. Your temps look fine. I think the TMPIN2 is just a monitor for another graphics card. Since there isn't a third place to monitor, it probably just gives a max reading.

Connect to GPU. Motherboard connections should not work with a dedicated GPU installed. DVI is usually the sweet spot for setup.

Why would you want brown?

4GB is enough for general applications. I use After Affects and Premiere Pro on only 4GB, but running them at the same time is a lost cause. 8GB is easily enough for any gamer, but going into multitasking, the more the merrier.