Hi, I recently bought a dell laptop that has a core i7 cpu and am having a few issues with it, and before the knockers and any one suggests returning it, contacting dell etc. been there done that and having on going discussions with various resources to try and rectify the issues.
The main problem is that when the CPU goes into turbo mode it will completely lock up the laptop, the only way to clear the fault is to switch it of then on again(this has been the most common and major issue for all laptops with this cpu) as you can imagine a real pain especially if you are working on important jobs.
I am now at the stage where i am going to install U.E to see how it reacts to this set up. once i have installed U.E i will need a CPU temp/usage monitor that is capable of monitoring a multi thread cpu(8 threads).
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks
Raz
Edit; been reading quite a bit and it seems that as at this time there is'nt anything available that can reliably monitor and report on i7 cpu's, at least not in the current kernels. Or have i misunderstood various Ubuntu threads.