This is my own personal Conky config. Most of it's copied from other contributors and I've simply modified their scripts. If I missed any attributions, I sincerely apologize!
Although heavily modified, this config was based on the config created by didi79 (http://didi79.deviantart.com/art/conky-config-127651851). As this repo is my first Conky config, I went to school on his script and started by modifying it. Thanks didi79.
It looks like this was originally part of the Linux Mint distro back in 2011, near as I can tell.
I created this simple script so I would have syslog on my screen at all times at a glance. It doesn't update fast enough if a lot of entries race by, but that's true in the terminal as well (which is why we have 'grep' and can set infinite scrolling).
I created this script as a simple utility to display the processor model and the count of physical processors, physical cores, and logical cores (including hyperthreads). It was modified for Conky so that it could display a line at a time (via arguments) to make it simple for line by line formatting.
This was simply the easiest way to get my public IP (obfuscated in the screenshot).
I have a dual socket, 8 core (4 cores per processor) system. This script lets me get the individual temperatures for each physical core.