I agree, the wattage must be measured. As another example, I measured 80W idle and 160 W on full load on a 12 core Opteron server.
This server does not have a 3D video card. I guess you also achieved full load on a 3D card too, and that explains the large difference between the wattage in idle and full load in your case.
Do most developers use caps lock for typing capitlized constants and other things?
Yes. Since I have learned touch typing, I use CAPS LOCK extensively. Like in the previous sentence. If I have to type more than two (or one?) upper case characters I always use it.
It was indeed one of the most difficult key to learn, maybe because if I accidentally hit another key, the usual Backspace does not correct it. But it is well worth to learn it. Otherwise I had to switch between LEFT SHIFT and RIGHT SHIFT after almost every character, which drives me crazy. I am not sure, but I assume, that those who hate CAPS LOCK never really learned touch typing well, if at all.
It is by no accident that there was a SHIFT LOCK key on every typewriter (and that was less useful than CAPS lock), which was mostly used by professional typists.
I understand, too high temperature is one thing, but crashing is really bad.
The new models, which have onboard IPMI controller, send you an email if a sensor value is unusual. At least I always get a notification email when I open the case, telling me just that: somebody opened the case. I had no problem with temperature even when I run a burn-in utility.
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