Linux overworking Processor

[reaone]

problem,
I bought a laptop to install linux. it has a good processor,core 2 quad, good memory, 4gb and a good hard drive. I installed zorin and everytime i run it, the fan in my processor is non-stop and there was alot of heat. the other day I put the original drive into the laptop with windows 7. the processor ran cool and the fan wasn't non-stop. it ran idle for a while and didn't overheat. to rule out the hard drive I installed Mint on the old drive it came with. it ran hot again.

tell me is there some setting in linux that overworks the processor? if not what's wrong?

 

[oneeye_72]

I had a similar problem with an old ASRock N68C-GS FX MoBo, a AMD FX-4300 CPU and an ATI Radeon HD 5670 Graphics Card;
The system ran OK until I went into BIOS, where temperatures began to rise dramatically. If I came out of BIOS and booted into Mint 17, everything would rapidly cool down to normal.
I tracked the heat problem to the graphic card heating up everything else. I updated the BIOS and tried everything I could think of, nothing changed, same problem. So I brought a new MoBo, a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P, that solved it. So it could be down to a hardware Mint compatibility problem. Hope this is of some help.

 

[mc962]

I found that when I had Mint, using Cinnamon Desktop Environment liked to spike my CPU usage a lot, even though I was doing nothing and the computer could more than handle Linux. I tried driver updates, reinstalls, etc., and never really figured out the issue other than something vague about how my ASUS board and Mint didn't get along too well in that particular area. Finally I switched to the MATE Desktop Environment for Mint and my computer was just fine.

There are 4 environments for Mint from what I saw, maybe try each of them and see which one plays nice with your CPU? MATE worked for me, while Cinnamon had issues.