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<div>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
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<div>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.</div>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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