But wouldn't the louder cpu fan also draw attention?
Not necessarily. I can barely hear mine and it's running right now at near 100%. On a laptop, yes definitely. A 100% CPU and the thing sounds like it's about to take flight. A high end desktop rig in a good gaming case and you barely hear the CPU at all.
dang darn... but maybe the additional power consumption will wake some people up, no?
If my 8-core is at 10% it really draws only about 30 watts... so my whole system (motherboard, monitor, etc..) draws about 140 watt...
But when it goes to 100% cpu it is more then 200 watts...
why, then they should build computers that make moaning and gasping sounds!! Some form of obvious indication of "high effort"