But running the 4090 would keep your cottage warm.
I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just… not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just… not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.
But running the 4090 would keep your cottage warm.
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
It would literally not matter since it all ends up as heat in the end which is what you’re looking for
Minus 5 watts on the three fans or something
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My Pc is a good 500W heater with an attached entertainment generator.
Thassodar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Playing Frostpunk and my PC is literally the generator.
Nythos@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
olosta@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Assuming you meant heat and not hear. Upgrading your cooling should not lower the total heat output of your PC (it’s more likely to increase it). The only exception is if you somehow send the heat out of the room, but that would be a crazy complicated setup. Your PC always turn the same amount of electric energy into heat energy and dissipate it in the room. if it’s more efficient it will cool down the components more, possibly giving them the opportunity to increase frequency further, which increase the power draw, which is turn into more heat that is dissipated in the room.
paholg@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The electricity from the fans also ends up as heat.
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
Hot damn, that’s true
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The hot from the damn also ends up as heat.
qaz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even if it’s 97% efficient, a heat pump can still beat it.
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
True that
I wish heatpumps ran factorio 😔
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yea but can you game on a heat pump?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You could probably run Doom on one.
qaz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Good point
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
More like 99.99% the only electricity coming into the PC and not heating the house is the very small amount of light and sound leaving the house. Still worse than a heat pump, but pretty efficient at heating.
qaz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What about the fans?
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
EVs are finally starting to use heat pumps for heating and cooling their batteries (and cabin climate), I wonder how long before that’s available for PCs? Just need a little hole saw to get an evaporator/condenser outside.