You must realize TheeMahn is way ahead of things. Prolly the kind of guy Apple, Redhat and Intel would hire.
Adding programs to make a CPU run better is a regressive process something which Linus does not subscribe.
The Linux Device Driver maintainer(Greg Kroah Hartman) had once said.... Intel adds code and bug fixes long before the chip leaves the foundry.
Intel is the only company that has production ready code before hardware gets released; for LINUX.
You dont need to add any programs to make the CPU run better.
The bug can be because of:
1> TheeMahn is way ahead is breaking and then making stuff. A one man army with 10 fingers doing the work of 100 fingers.
2> As a result a long lost overlooked or untested software bug has arisen. Can even be related to the Gnome 2.xx series.
3> Gnome 2.x was funded by corporations. Mate is Not funded but an open source project keeping the old template alive...
.... dont get me wrong I love mate.
The Q6600 is an old cpu and does not require any new code unless they are multithreaded or OpenCL optimizations directly applied to the
batch that affects all CPU's.
Your program behaviour is very familiar and used to happen to me too...its a runaway process. You can kill it by using the kill or killall command:
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kill -9 <process ID>
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killall mate-appearance-properties
The AMD firmware drivers are a quick fix for running graphics drivers where catalyst does not work(for later APU's and graphics), and catalyst does not work with many distributions.... AMD does not do enough work to get catalyst working out of box.