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I've a weird thing going on in my system. I have an i7 crystalwell notebook processor that heats up to 87-degree celsius when I play games like Battlefield on ultra settings. Though I play that way for a whole day, the laptop stays fine. But when I am on puny apps like Sublime text, MS word or...

I have an ROG Gl552jx laptop with Nvidia Optimus. When the laptop is idle, the readings for Nvidia card shows up with intermittent graphs, as if it is continuously switching ON and OFF. May I know is this normal? Or why is it happening so? Is there a way to fix it? Here is the screenshot:

I have a small hardware issue with my newly bought ASUS GL552jx, does anyone here own the model? I upgraded the RAM today and due to poor engineering, the bay door's snap in plastics broke. The doors kinda floats when turned up. I have already installed loads of software in the HDD. Is it worth...

I just bought an Asus ROG GL552JX laptop. Unlike my Dell, which had 3x 3.5 mm jacks (headphone, mic, SPDIF), the ASUS laptop has only 2x 3.5mm jacks (headphone and mic). How do I connect the speaker system to my laptop? Do I have to purchase an expensive USB sound card? Or will a 3.5mm...

I have a windows 7 DVD in my DVD drive. Unfortunately, I can't get to my BIOS to select boot device due to broken laptop screen. The only thing displaying on my external monitor is my current ubuntu installation from my old HDD connected via USB. From that (HDD via USB), I now have access to...

Is it worth trying the proprietary NVIDIA drivers from a windows environment? Or, is there a way I can eliminate the laptop display completely so that I can use the external as my main display?

I just purchased a Dell s2216H monitor, as my XPS l502x LCD broke. I'm using ubuntu 15.10 with default XOrg drivers on it. I connected the screen with HDMI and turned off the laptop display using the `Fn` + `F1` key and display settings respectively. My issue: At full HD resolution, the mouse...