I just go this new laptop (Dell Inspiron n4030) and so far it has been performing well aside from some touchpad issues and the reason I'm opening this thread. If i run dmesg, I can see hundreds of lines saying the following:

Code:
[34145.815376] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34150.806122] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34155.796841] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34160.787547] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34165.778271] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34170.769019] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34175.759724] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34180.750453] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34185.741158] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34190.731899] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34195.722610] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34200.714574] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34205.714005] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34210.697337] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34215.687915] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
[34220.676280] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU power or thermal limit exceeded
Can you guys please help me figure out what's happening and if I should be worried about that message?