Conky Showoff thread

Todd Sauve · Post by **Todd Sauve** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:23 pm

It is an i7 4770k. This has 4 cores and 4 hyperthreads, but shows up as an 8 core CPU on Desktop Gadgets' CPU Monitor in Windows 10.

That's all I can tell you, other than this was a very expensive (almost $400 retail) CPU to purchase!!!

I also have a couple of other 8 core Conkeys but none of them have the temps in them, thus I much prefer this one.

If you could post the complete Conkey code that you think will work correctly, I'll form a Conkyrc out of it and give it a try.

That's the best I can do because I am a complete neophyte when it comes to coding anything!

Todd Sauve · Post by **Todd Sauve** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:41 pm

From the screenshot I'm posting here, I don't think you are correct about the same core showing up multiple times in the conky. As you can see, the frequencies are all different for every core so you must not be correct in your assumption, though the other screenshot could lead you to conclude that. (That screenshot was captured while running one of the standard but simple Linux CPU benchmarks. I think it was CPU Queens, or something like that, and it seemed to stress all of the cores equally for the short time that it ran.)

However, if you see a flaw in my reasoning, please correct me and show me from the code why you are right because I just don't understand it.

AS I said, I am a complete newcomer to this coding and conky business.

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Sector11 · Post by **Sector11** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:22 am

1. Let's talk temperatures:

You did not post the results of "sensors" in a terminal that I asked for, that would have shown "me" what I wanted to see.

Take a real good look at the conky in the "image" you posted in the previous post. You have 5 cores with the same temperature - CPUs 4 to 8 show: 38° You did not show the code in that post BUT in your original code you posted here there are problems with the temperatures. You are showing "Core 3" five times.

As I have said: AMD only shows the temperature of the "chip" be it single or multiple core CPU, but Intel chips show temperatures of individual cores. As you have said, you have a Quad core chip hyperthreaded to 8 cores. However you only have temps for the first "physical" 4 cores. Personally I would only show the temps on every second core: "Core 0 - 3"

Here's your code .... italics and italics-bold are mine for emphasis

${goto 5}${font zekton:style=Bold:pixelsize=14}${color2}SYSTEM LOAD${font Snap.se:size=8} ${color1}${hr}${color}
${voffset -5}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 1: ${cpu cpu 0}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 0'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 1} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 0}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 2: ${cpu cpu 1}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 1'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 2} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 1}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 3: ${cpu cpu 2}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 2'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 3} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 2}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 4: ${cpu cpu 3}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 3'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 4} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 3}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 5: ${cpu cpu 4}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 3'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 5} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 4}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 6: ${cpu cpu 5}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 3'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 6} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 5}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 7: ${cpu cpu 6}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 3'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 7} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 6}${color}
${goto 10}${font StyleBats:size=12}A${font} CPU 8: ${cpu cpu 7}%${goto 120} ${execi 5 sensors|grep 'Core 3'| awk -F'+' '{print $2}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'} °C ${alignr}${freq 8} MHz
${goto 5}${color1}${cpubar cpu 7}${color}
${voffset -5}

2. Now lets look at the same code regarding CPU usage in percents:

http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html