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by Uehreka 1693 days ago
Watts go in, Watts come out. So basically, find a space heater with the TDP of your server, and that’s the upper bound on what you can expect heating-wise.

I know that’s a bummer for people who want to heat their house with their computer, but Thermodynamics is always a bummer, I don’t make the Laws.
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matheusmoreira 1693 days ago
> So basically, find a space heater with the TDP of your server, and that’s the upper bound on what you can expect heating-wise.

I wonder how many CPUs I need to build a cryptocurrency miner water heater... That would be so much better than just wasting energy heating up dumb elements.

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buildbot 1693 days ago
That's why I heat my house with a dell C4140! The _lowest_ power throttle it has is 1.4KW.
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