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I've been away from Ubuntu since introduction of the Unity interface. When 13.10 was released I figured I'd give it another shot and installed it on my HP G62. This laptop has an AMD V120 cpu and a Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 gpu. I've also got 6gb ram installed and am using the original HDD.

My laptop overheats so much, I have to regularly turn it off and wait for a while before continuing to use it. The bottom surface is so hot that I cannot let it touch my leg and the top surface is getting almost too hot to touch, too. I even noticed that the laptop is now producing a very hot smell that is really concerning me.

I've tried several things I've read here on AaskUbuntu like editing /etc/default/grub to use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_osi=Linux quiet splash". I've installed FWTS along with a few other utilities to no avail.

This computer does not run very hot when using windows 7 or any other gnu/linux distros including Ubuntu derivatives.

If anybody could please suggest another option or inform me that I should use another OS, I'd appreciate it.

LiveWireBT
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How much resources do you use in system-monitor. i think the unity-surface is very high in consumption. perhaps thy same ubuntu with diffrent surface? (e.G. lxde? / Kde?)

JOnas
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You can try indicator-cpufreq or TLP. Should also install a temperature indicator like Xsensors. I imagine that you have check your fans are working and have cleaned out the dust and dirt. Indicator-cpufreq works similar to the jupiter applet.

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