A few weeks ago, our furnace (technically a tubeless heat pump) stopped working at the worst possible time of the year. But at least one room stays nice all winter long – thanks to my game computer.
Now, The Wall Street Journal This may be a trend to report: some bitcoin miners and gamers are heating their rooms, growing tomatoes and even heating a chicken coop during the pandemic.
It made me wonder: how many Edge do readers do the same?
Poll
Are you (intentionally) heating your home with game hardware?
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61%
No
(229 votes)
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30%
Yes, with my game computer
(116 votes)
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4%
Yes, with my mining
(15 votes)
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4%
Yes, with something else (share in the comments!)
(15 votes)
375 votes total
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I keep my computer running all night and fold proteins to study COVID-19, which I highly recommend. (I only crossed 175 million points this week.) But I have to admit that the room was not that hot yet, as I swapped my own GeForce GTX 1080 again. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 which is impossible to find definitely put out more heat, and we actually had to crack a window when I had an Nvidia RTX 3080 folding the proteins. I can not speak for every model, but the Founder’s Edition runs hot.
I hope Mitsubishi delivers a new control board for my heat pump soon.