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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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He didn't say he wanted to make another sun

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If you want a janky setup for it I have one for you and its probably slightly better than the fish tank condensation collector. Turn your heating to full power, then connect the heat pump to a tube that takes the cool air and directs it to you.

Optional:
Watercool your sofa by putting a few PC rads next to the heat pump and they pump water round a hose pipe on your sofa.
Turn off the radiator in the room you want cooling in.

I have been kinda thinking of the hosepipe watercooled sofa idea myself though without using the heat pump for it, just a bucket of water and a pump, put some ice cubes into the bucket. Or freeze a 2L bottle and put that in. Avoid thermoelectric, its inefficient. Passive cooling or perhaps make use of cooler underground temperature are also interesting thoughts. But in reality I doubt I will end up doing something like it and it just remains in the idea phase.

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You could probably gat away with it if you install a single mini split somewhere upstairs to remove moisture and cool the rest of the house with the big pump

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ALWAYS. A. RELEVANT. XKCD.

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Sadly, for a few years now I've had TDP as one of the main criteria when buying parts for my machines, so there really isn't enough waste heat from my machines to even just keep a room warm in Winter by playing heavy 3D games (the worst one tops at around 180W, so basically a really bright incandescent light bulb)

On the other hand what I save in power consumption on my machines can be used on a dedicated heating solution that's ON only when I need it rather than the whole year.

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whilst my home server uses about 20W at 100%)

I'd love it if my equipment used so little, but I'd rather just pay a higher electric bill and be able to spin up whatever VM, container or DB I need for a project whenever I want without having to worry about resource usage