What might be possible is that there's some kind of clock management
going on that processor that works in Windows but not in Linux. I've
had machines like that in the past and especially with the i3 there
are a number of desktop and mobile variants and without looking, you
may have a low end laptop variant. Looking at /proc/cpuinfo or System
Monitor will give you an idea of what it thinks it is. Overclocking it
might work but I'm sure you can do better even for their price.
I do have to say that, as nice as some of their machines look, Packard
Bell is a budget line and as was said many years ago, the name evokes
two classic American names while having none of their quality.
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Funny you should say that, another friend has bought a Dell recently
which I'm pretty sure matches the computing power of the starship
Enterprise! It has some sort of boost technology that allows it to up
the clock speed for short periods. In windows it works great, but in
Ubuntu opening a Nautilus window is enough to make it overheat and shut
down! I've installed frequency scaling and it now runs hot but works. I
have been meaning to bring this up on here and see what people's opinion
is of it.
This machine was bought because it was buy now pay next year. The
alternative was watch my old system die of old age and do without! My
choices were limited.
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