How to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint 16 Petra
Dedicated Nvidia GPU Having a dedicated graphics processing unit ( GPU or graphics card ), boosts graphics performance significantly, especially when playing 3d games. Nvidia GPUs are very popular on...
View ArticleBenchmark graphics card (GPU) performance on Linux with glmark
Graphics performance - measure it Recently when I added a new nvidia graphics card to one of my desktops, I was curious to measure and compare the power of this graphics card with whatever it was...
View ArticleHow to get information about graphics card (GPU) on Linux
Graphics processing units - GPU You need to find out the correct model and vendor of the graphics card on your system, to be able to install the appropriate drivers and get the hardware to function...
View ArticleHow to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr
Nvidia drivers If you have an Nvidia graphics card on your system, then its recommended to install the official drivers provided by Nvidia. The proprietory drivers would utilise the hardware properly...
View ArticleFix low resolution grub and splash screen with Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.04
Nvidia drivers With the Nvidia official drivers you are able to throttle the performance of the nvidia graphic cards (gpu) to the maximum. However there are small glitches that need to be fixed...
View Article9 commands to check hard disk partitions and disk space on Linux
In this post we are taking a look at some commands that can be used to check up the partitions on your system. The commands would check what partitions there are on each disk and other details like the...
View ArticleHow to check processor and cpu details on Linux
Processor/Cpu details The details about the processor that we shall be talking about include, number of cores, availability of hyper threading, architecture, cache size etc. To find these details about...
View ArticleTest read/write speed of usb and ssd drives with dd command on Linux
Drive speed The speed of a drive is measured in terms of how much data it can read or write in unit time. The dd command is a simple command line tool that can be used to read and write arbitrary...
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