My "computer room" is 100% heated by AMD and NVIDIA...

[Vic]

Heh... I've been heating my home office for years with overclocked Athlons. If the room isn't warm enough, just turn up the MHz...

 

[gunblade]

Well, wait for the coming P4. It dissipates over 100w or upto 120w of heat. That is THE king of "processor heater".

 

[Shawn]

My P4 get's pretty hot but that's because it's a 1.6 @ 2.4. Actually my Denon reciever puts out massive amounts of heat.

 

[Xenon14]

That's nothing...try my dorm: 2 computers, 2 monitors, 1 laptop (occasionally running), 1 TV, 1 Fridge.

 

[Scootin159]

the upstairs of our townhouse is entirely heated by CPU's:

4x AMD Athlons
1x Pentium III
2x 19" CRT's
2x 17" CRT's
1x 15" LCD

+ 2 small dorm room fridges (helps out some too).

There's also 2 19" TV's, but they aren't on that much.

 

[TofBnT]

Hey, as long as they are on all the time, are you running any DC clients?
I do, works real well for space heaters for my shed.

 

[CTho9305]

The ~1ghz (underclocked) athlon (friend's machine, not mine) in my closet keeps my clothes warm .

 

[sandorski]

Get an Intel! They are the king of heaters!

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Do you fold@home or something?

 

[BurnItDwn]

77 degrees is not comfortable. It is extremely hot.

 

[Thegonagle]

One of the reasons I went with Intel: I was bought the computer last summer. Heat was a factor. (During the winter, the steam radiators in my place already do a fine job of keeping me too hot.)

 

[Kenny]

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: Kenny
I don't know about you guys, but the video card and cpu don't really spit out much heat. My PSU is usually the culprit...

I highly doubt it. I think there is almost no way a normal PSU can give out 70w~90w of heat and being efficient to deliver all the juices.

Heh, that was a stupid post I made. I foolishly thought that the psu was spitting out the most air because thats my only exhaust fan, but the heat is coming from the cpu and video card.

Sorry.

 

[NeoPTLD]

A computer don't give off that much heat.

Athlon gives off perhaps 75W at the most, nvidia 40 or so.

Having one 300W halogen light gives off more heat and even then it's no space heater.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: LordSegan
Nice.. does that get smokey?

I am in awe.

It is hard to believe that there are people that don't know what a wood stove is.. lol

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: LordSegan
Nice.. does that get smokey?

I am in awe.

It is hard to believe that there are people that don't know what a wood stove is.. lol

Indeed

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle
One of the reasons I went with Intel: I was bought the computer last summer. Heat was a factor. (During the winter, the steam radiators in my place already do a fine job of keeping me too hot.)

i believe they are pretty even these days in terms of heat.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
A computer don't give off that much heat.

Athlon gives off perhaps 75W at the most, nvidia 40 or so.

I beg to differ. Your numbers are somewhat correct, but also take into account head dissipation from system and video RAM, discreet motherboard components including the northbridge (why do they have heatsinks on them?). Harddrive (frictional rotation @ 7200rpm here). And of course the power supply.

Add up the numbers and you have some pretty decent dissipation. Sure it's not a 1500watt space heater, but in an 8x12 enclosed room with the door closed, it's good enough.

By the way, I could het the same volume of room with just a single burning candle and it would get warm. It's physics man.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: gunblade
Well, wait for the coming P4. It dissipates over 100w or upto 120w of heat. That is THE king of "processor heater".

Beat me to it. The new prescott should keep at leats a 500-700 square foot room nice and warm

 

[Avatar26]

My roommate and I are heating 800 sq ft with:
1 P4 server, 1 P3 server, 1 XP2000+ client and 1 P4 2.4 client (both w/ GF 4 Ti)
65" Mits HDTV, 32" Toshiba Cinema series, 27" Samsung HDTV
Denon Receiver, Toshiba 5 disc DVD

Haven't turned on that heat yet and it's been in the teens and 20s the past 2 weeks

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
A computer don't give off that much heat.

Athlon gives off perhaps 75W at the most, nvidia 40 or so.

I beg to differ. Your numbers are somewhat correct, but also take into account head dissipation from system and video RAM, discreet motherboard components including the northbridge (why do they have heatsinks on them?). Harddrive (frictional rotation @ 7200rpm here). And of course the power supply.

Add up the numbers and you have some pretty decent dissipation. Sure it's not a 1500watt space heater, but in an 8x12 enclosed room with the door closed, it's good enough.

By the way, I could het the same volume of room with just a single burning candle and it would get warm. It's physics man.

well at most it would give off the wattage your psu could supply. then theres the inefficiency of the psu giving off more heat. so its not much more then a couple light bulbs. stuff needs heatsinks because they are chips, not lightbulbs.

add a crt monitor and u give off over 100watts of heat easy, probably near 200 for bigger monitors. mem hazy.

some speakers give off a bit of heat when driven.

if your system is always stressed using distrib computing software, then its going to be hotter.

 

[MPankau]

I used to have a dual XP2000 setup with a GeForce 3 something that would keep my bedroom nice and warm - even in a crappy apartment with single pane windows (without any insulation).

MP

 

[FoBoT]

if it gets colder you will need to add some more computers