Maybe, maybe not. At the times W95 was usual, I mostly ran NetBSD and later some Gentoo and Debian on my assorted systems. Furthermore, most systems had PSUs ra

Maybe, maybe not. At the times W95 was usual, I mostly ran NetBSD and later some Gentoo and Debian on my assorted systems. Furthermore, most systems had PSUs rated at 200 to 250 Watt, which they didn't even burn if one used operating systems which knew what to do with the CPUs HLT instruction during idle, or less load, also spinning down disks was a thing. BTW, there was software which made W95/98 use HLT too. Rain, Waterfall, CPUidle, or something like that. Which became obsolete with W2000 which did that by itself. Shrug.