One of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAO

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You haven't heard my PS4 take off like a jet liner on any menu screen.

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I saw an interesting post that said

All electronics are 100% efficient in the winter

A Basil Plant

Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

Interesting!

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Look into geothermal heat pumps. During the summer they pump heat from your house underground, and during the winter they pump it back in.

But the energy doesn't really stay there. The thermal mass and temperature of the ground just means that you can always efficiently take heat from it or effectively dump heat into it. Always predictably the same efficiency.
If the heat was actually stored, the start of summer and winner the pump would be super efficient, but by the end it'd be inefficient working hard to move the heat. So it seems kinda wasteful that the energy isn't being stored, but it's actually kinda better that it isn't.

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Now that we have reverse cycle AC (heat pumps), 100% is a low bar.

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I know, but I didn't wanna pollute my comment with a bunch of pedantry, despite my name. Also people living in apartments often don't have access to heat pumps.

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Love my heat pump, although its not AC. In the UK if you get ground/air to water the government give you £7.5k towards it. Air to air you get nothing. I suppose it is quieter, but for the 2/3 days in summer where it goes over 30°c having AC would be nice.

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Just have a safety vent. But I thought they cooled off within days, not months?

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My home server was serving a dual purpose of keeping my closet full of 3d printer filament dry, but then the most recent TrueNAS Scale updates killed it by dropping my average CPU load from 10 to 4%.

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Those bastards.

SeekPie

What if I reverse the direction of my fans (in from the backside and out from the front) and point it to face the middle of the room?

MudMan

I've heard tell of mystery tech to make the water heat pumps make cold. I'm sure I'll be more tempted to investigate further when summer comes.

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Just open a few Chrome tabs. That'll ramp the resource usage back up again.

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Lookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It's basically the same thing.

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Relevant xkcd:

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I live in the UK, its always humid. You will end up with a condensation radiator.

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Does ram really have that much thermal load/power draw? I don't even account for it when I'm picking a power supply.

Just start a scan with a second anti-virus, they'll fight it out and warm up your house quite nicely.

Or double dip and mine crypto when it's cold out.

MudMan

Yeah, that's the issue to be solved. Apparently there is some sort of contraption that includes fans to prevent the condensation, but whenever I asked the heat pump people they just shook their heads despndently and told me to let it go.

Hey, all my pipes are outside the walls. Maybe I can just build some sort of acrylic enclosure and put fish in there or something.

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Even for a large amount of RAM that you'd find in a big server, it's a few dozen watts at most. Here's some charts showing the jump from DDR3 to DDR4 on a 16GB stick:

DDR3L vs DDR4 Power Consumption

Lets look at Samsungs specs for DDR4 (and this is not LPDDR4, just standard DDR4)...

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DDR5 dropped the voltage from 1.2V to 1.1V compared to DDR4, which tends to make it even more power efficient. Not quite as dramatic as DDR3 to 4, but in any case, it's better still.

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You guys have your PCs’ backs to a wall? I’ve always put it away from the wall.