thewolf gave me one to try and maybe I I don't have it set up right but its there a temp monitor for these h8qme boards that shows all cores or atleast all chips? something that is a simple list nothing fancy.
 
a step by step would be helpful, still learning Linux.

thanks that worked
 

Try piping the command to 'grep thermal':
 
sysop@H8QME:~$ sensors | grep thermal
CPU1 Temp:    +40.8°C  (high = +72.0°C, hyst = +67.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
CPU2 Temp:    +42.8°C  (high = +72.0°C, hyst = +67.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
CPU3 Temp:    +39.0°C  (high = +72.0°C, hyst = +67.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
CPU4 Temp:    +44.0°C  (high = +72.0°C, hyst = +67.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
 
Just type in the "sensors | grep thermal" part without the quotes, the rest before that is my bash shell prompt.
 
The grep command only shows lines that match the pattern argument, in this case only lines containing the word 'thermal' will be output. It is case sensitive unless you give it the -i switch, in which case 'sensors | grep -i Thermal' would also match those lines. If the pattern to grep contains white space such as "thermal diode" then you need to enclose them in quotes such as: sensors | grep "thermal diode"
 
Next to 'ls', grep in its various forms is by far the unix/linux command I use the most on a day to day basis.
 

I actually wrote a quick and dirty perl script to provide more of a "Just the facts, ma'am" style of output.
 
8439 /home/sysop $ temp
Wed May  1 16:40:37 2013:
CPU 1: 37.2
CPU 2: 40.8
CPU 3: 34.2
CPU 4: 40.5
8439 /home/sysop $ temp -s
Wed May  1 16:40:50 2013:
1: 37.2  2: 40.2  3: 33.8  4: 41.0
 
8439 /home/sysop $ cat `which temp`
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;
$simple = 1 if $ARGV[0] eq '-s';
printf "%s:\n",scalar localtime();
@lines = `sensors|grep thermal|sort`;
foreach $line (@lines)
{
  ($node,$temp) = $line =~ /CPU(\d+)\sTemp:\s+\++(\d+\.\d+)/;
  $N{$node} = $temp;
}

$j = 1;
if ($simple)
{
  for ($i=1;$i<5;$i++)
  {
    print "$i: $N{$i}  ";
  }
  print "\n";
}
else
{
  for ($i=1;$i<5;$i++)
  {
    print "CPU $j: $N{$i}\n";
    $j++;
  }
}
 
Copy the above starting with the #! shebang to /usr/local/bin/whatevernameyouwant and then chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/whatevernameyouwant then just run it.
 
Another handy little ditty is my "checkpoint" alias (I use tcsh for my shells):
 
H8QME /home/sysop # checkpoint
Now: Wed May  1 16:45:05 EDT 2013
CPT: Wed May  1 16:42:25.0496524968 2013
 
H8QME /home/sysop # which checkpoint
checkpoint:      aliased to echo "Now: `date`";echo -n "CPT: ";find ~sysop/fah/work -type f -name "*.ckp" -mmin -16 -printf "%c\n"
 
You can make a script called checkpoint by using nano/pico or your favorite editor to create /usr/local/bin/checkpoint and put this in it:
 
#!/bin/sh
echo "Now: `date`";echo -n "CPT: ";find ~sysop/fah/work -type f -name "*.ckp" -mmin -16 -printf "%c\n"
 
Save it and then chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/checkpoint then just run it.
 

Oh the CPU cycles!
 

Any widget that updates itself will use some CPU cycles. Honestly, it wouldn't impact folding to any significant degree, but efficiency nuts wouldn't want to run anything that wastes any CPU time at all. I live in SSH terminal windows so I don't do any desktop window dressings.
 
See what "top" says in a terminal window. It should provide a clue as to what is using CPU time.
 

The load average at idle on both my 4p's generally sits at 0.00 (from the uptime, who or top commands) and I never saw anything using more than a trivial amount of CPU time. I haven't used the System Monitor as I do everything in SSH shell terminals. I'll try it if I can remember to next time I reboot.

Edit: typo

TheWolf
Your saying the other by Furry will use some CPU cycles correct?

 
With that config file, the desktop widget will only update once every 5 seconds. This should use minimal CPU cycles.

I just rebooted my 4p G34 to increase its overclock (250 mhz refclock, 2626 mhz, stock is 2100) and with System Monitor running, the Xorg window manager is using the equivalent of 33% to 34% of one core at idle according to top. System Monitor showed that load spread across 6 to 8 cores, jumping around a bit. I shut down System Monitor and the CPU usage dropped to 0%. I suspected that the system monitor itself was using the CPU time. That probably accounts for the CPU usage you are seeing Wolf.
 

Yeah I hadn't refreshed the view and hadn't gotten the thread update notice in email yet. <sigh>
 

wrinvert
okay now how do I edit show it doesn't show all the ones I don't need?

If you have tpc installed, it just "sudo tpc -temp"

bowlinra@amd-6176:~$ sudo tpc -temp
[sudo] password for bowlinra:
TurionPowerControl 0.44-rc2 (export)
Turion Power States Optimization and Control - by blackshard
Detected processor: Family 10h Processor
Machine has 8 nodes
Processor has 6 cores
Processor has 5 p-states
Processor has 0 boost states
Processor temperature slew rate:9.0°C
Temperature table:
Node 0  C0:40   C1:40   C2:40   C3:40   C4:40   C5:40
Node 1  C0:39   C1:39   C2:39   C3:39   C4:39   C5:39
Node 2  C0:41   C1:41   C2:41   C3:41   C4:41   C5:41
Node 3  C0:41   C1:41   C2:41   C3:41   C4:41   C5:41
Node 4  C0:43   C1:43   C2:43   C3:43   C4:43   C5:43
Node 5  C0:42   C1:42   C2:42   C3:42   C4:42   C5:42
Node 6  C0:38   C1:38   C2:38   C3:38   C4:38   C5:38
Node 7  C0:38   C1:38   C2:38   C3:38   C4:38   C5:38

Node 0 & Node 1 are CPU 1 etc..