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    PCSPECIALIST Optimus V 17.3" laptop missing webcam driver

    Many years later, but still a very helpful tip. Thank you
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    PCSPECIALIST Optimus V hot HDD

    I have an Optimus V 15.6" (W355SSQ) with 120GB Kingston SSD and 1GB Hitachi HDD (HGST HTS541010A9E680) When the HDD is stressed (defragmentation, large copy, etc) it gets quite hot: showing 54 degrees now during a defrag, and it went to 59 the other day during a big copy. I don't know if it...
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    PCSPECIALIST Optimus V add msata drive

    I have an Optimus V 15.6", W355SSQ, with KINGSTON 120GB SSD and Toshiba 1GB HDD in the two standard 2.5" HDD slots. Very pleased with it so far. I am thinking of adding extra SSD. Choices are (1) to add an mSata drive, or (2) to replace the Kingston with a larger SSD. In either case, the new...
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    PCSPECIALIST Support for Miracast?

    I have an Optimus V5 with Centrino Wireless N 135. Should this support Miracast? It doesn't show up when I try Charms, Devices, Project, and DXDiag says "Miracast: Not Supported by WiFi driver" However, the driver model is WDDM 1.3 which appears from reading around to be what is needed for...
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    PCSPECIALIST slow benchmarks: Optimus V, 4710MQ

    I've recently bought a pcspecialist Optimus V laptop with i7-4710MQ processor. I'm very pleased on the whole, but finding the cpu running much slower than I expect. This is reflected in slow benchmarks. My Passmark CPU score is 4084, similar Passmark scores suggest it should be around 8000...
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