bruce wrote:In fact, the heat generated by FAH is many times too small to actually heat a room. I find that several computers all running full-blast in my bedroom are barely enough to take the chill off the room. I don't think there's really a good justification for adding the function of a thermostat. (Of course you may have kits that dissipate much more power that mine do.)
LOL Bruce. I had 13 GPUs in my basement during the recent folding month competition and though it’s November in Ontario we had a couple of warm days which, as a result, I was working in my shorts and still sweating. Now that folding month is done and I’m back to folding only 10 GPUs for the 12 off-peak hours at 80% power limit that’s still around 1.4kW of heat just from the GPUs and I won’t mention the 100-200W per CPU here for BOINC.
Realistically 2 medium GPUs (2070+) (400W) and a CPU (100W) could keep most small rooms comfortable.
The basement is the warmest area in the house now even though I finally caved to the whining and turned on the Heat today