The electricity from the fans also ends up as heat.
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
paholg@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Hot damn, that’s true
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even if it’s 97% efficient, a heat pump can still beat it.
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
True that
I wish heatpumps ran factorio 😔
accideath@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yea but can you game on a heat pump?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You could probably run Doom on one.
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good point
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
What about the fans?
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Their waste is heat. They might waste some energy by sending air out of the house, but any energy they impart on air eventually becomes heat
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
My Pc is a good 500W heater with an attached entertainment generator.
Thassodar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Playing Frostpunk and my PC is literally the generator.
Nythos@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
olosta@lemmy.world 11 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.