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    Is 66 degrees celcius(idle) and 80-90 degrees celcius(gaming) normal for laptop GPU?

    Have a msi GX740 which has a Radeon HD5870 GPU. The idle temperature is 68-70 and the temperature under load is low 80 to 90 degree celcius. My cpu is quite cool. 50-55 idle, 60+ on load. Cleaned out dust, cpu's temperature became 45-50 idle, 50-65 on load. Sometimes it hits 70 but not often...
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    Radeon 5870 gpu fan 0 RPM on laptop and idle temperature at 67-70 degrees celcius?

    Just bought a 3 year old msi GX740 off ebay. Everything seemed to work when I tested it before paying. But when I got home, I downloaded speedfan and realised that my gpu was 69 degrees celcius when IDLE, and the gpu fan speed was 0 rpm. Monitored it for about 2 hours more, still around that...
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    how much is this used toshiba laptop worth(around 2 years old)??

    Here are the specs: Toshiba satellite p755-1002x 15.6" screen i72670QM 2.2 ghz with turbo boost up to 3.1 ghz nvidia gt540m 8gb ram 640 gb hdd no physical damage. Mint condition. Forgot the original price but definitely over 1000 USD. how much(in usd) would you say that this laptop is worth...
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    Can you use a USB wifi dongle on your laptop?

    My laptop's wifi range is really short... When I bought it, it could detect my neighbour's wifi. Now it can only detect wifi from the same room. Around 5-8 meters range. If I plugged a USB wifi dongle into my laptop, how will it know whether to use that wifi dongle or the wifi card that came...
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    Will OS and programs remain if I swapped my HDD to my new pc?

    wow dude relax.... this is an old pc from my mum's company. I'm not from the US and shit like this don't happen in my country. My product key is xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxxx-xxxxx(x incase my product key can be reused...). So I'm using an oem version of windows right? No harddisk transfer?
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    Will OS and programs remain if I swapped my HDD to my new pc?

    Btw how do you check whether it's an OEM or the retail version? Cos this pc is a used one and the previous owner might have installed a fresh copy of windows on it...
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    Will OS and programs remain if I swapped my HDD to my new pc?

    not really sure, probably spoilt or something.
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    Will OS and programs remain if I swapped my HDD to my new pc?

    ok so heres the deal... There is this guy selling me a pc without hdd. He said I'm allowed to install a hdd on my own to test the pc but he will not take the time for me to install an os before paying. So if I install my current hdd with os into the pc but it doesn't work, how do I test if the...