One of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAO
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I would think actually more efficient because heat is the waste product not the expected product like a stand alone heater. Unless you are specifically running your PC at max just to create heat then just using your PC as intended and gaining "free" heat is a bonus.
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You will certainly lose a couple of milliwatts if you have a WiFi antenna on your PC.
The rest will be turned into heat in your room, probably.
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My server rack (in the cold garage) is now enclosed and the air filtered and piped into my grow tent which then regulates with cold air from the garage.
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Wow f@h still kicking?
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my grow tent
One of these days I also need to get around to starting my grow operation myself lol
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Been done years ago and failed miserably: Nerdalize
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Yes, it all eventually becomes heat, though not all in the room. Sound sound escapes, and some light goes through the window or whatever. Those losses are incredibly minor though.
What makes a big difference between a PC and something purpose built as a heater is generally how the air circulates the room. A space heater is going to project it out into the room, baseboard heaters will create a wide convection current. A PC on a desk in the corner will typically just blast hot air at one localised spot on the wall which isn't really ideal for dispersing it throughout the room.
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For everyone who isn't trying to mine crypto, yeah.
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psychosomatic. Heaters are expensive to run, but if I'm just running my pc, I "Have to" be running that so it doesn't feel more expensive. I have heaters I just keep not turning them on until its too cold.
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Not sure who's down voting you. You're right. There's Heat pumps that can move 5x more heat than the energy they use. While a PC only gives you max 1:1
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So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that's probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea "cloud computing"?
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That's why I like my mini PC with a laptop GPU. Its not the most powerful, but it can play most stuff at 1080p Very High settings and get 60 FPS all while using 300ish watts. Good enough for me. I really don't want to deal with noise, size and power consumption of a kitted out gaming rig anymore.
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I have actually gotten up to run benchmarks on my PC on particularly cold nights.
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Maybe a failure at a commercial level, but
peopletech nerds are still heating their homes in the winter with crypto miners -
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Put a 4090 in there and pump those numbers up!
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That's the dream right there.
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This is true, but it's shocking how few people have heat pumps, especially in colder climates.
Still, it's also far less efficient than using a gas furnace (to the point that most people would actually burn more fossil fuels per Joule of heat from a resistive heater than from just burning the gas directly in a furnace).
Of course, if you're doing something useful with that energy, using the waste heat is an extra benefit. Like using waste heat from a power plant for district heating.
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Is there any way to store surplus waste heat for redistribution months later? The only thing I can think of is just a really large, high heat capacity mass surrounded by incredible insulation material, with a heat pump system built in to it. Which would be incredibly impractical.
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Thank you, this thought had occurred to me recently, and I was wondering if it was accurate.
