alienware 15 r3

Hello, I'm the process of buying a secondhand Alienware 15 r3 laptop. On my first visit to the seller, I was disappointed to discover that even though the laptop had both a iGPU and a dGPU, there was no way to switch (MUX switch) the graphics from the dGPU. Pressing Fn+F7 brought...

I got an Alienware 15 R 3 , 1070 8 GB, i7 7700 Cpu The first time I got the laptop Temps were below 85, Got a stable performance.. Ever since I updated bios from 1.0.5 to newer versions (1.2.5)(1.7.0 was even worse got constant drops) games started dropping, Support said I had to replace...

Hey, as the title suggests, I can't seem to get ANY distro to play nice with my laptop. Of course, as highlighted in the title, it's an Alienware 15R3 - i7-7700HQ, 24GB DDR4, GTX 1060 6GB (switchable with Intel HD 620 onboard), NVMe 240GB SSD and 2TB platter drive. Seems like every distro I try...

Is it worth it if i want to keep my laptop relevant? i have the alienware 15 r3 -Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz -2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is my cpu going to be bottlenecking a worthy enough gfx card? heres the gfx amplifier...