Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My Pc is a good 500W heater with an attached entertainment generator.

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  • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Playing Frostpunk and my PC is literally the generator.

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  • Nythos@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • olosta@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• paholg@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The electricity from the fans also ends up as heat.

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  • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hot damn, that’s true

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hot from the damn also ends up as heat.

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      • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cool!

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• qaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if it’s 97% efficient, a heat pump can still beat it.

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  • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True that

    I wish heatpumps ran factorio 😔

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea but can you game on a heat pump?

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could probably run Doom on one.

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good point

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about the fans?

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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