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  • @shiinondogewalker2809
    @shiinondogewalker2809 4 года назад +4451

    winter is coming, time to overclock

    • @GabrielTobing
      @GabrielTobing 4 года назад +45

      Shiinon Dogewalker Legit, this is what I did XD

    • @oniamaya3934
      @oniamaya3934 4 года назад +44

      Crack you window and the cold air flows down the wall on top the pc. Then room stays 70*

    • @JavaJake123
      @JavaJake123 4 года назад +12

      Shiinon Dogewalker LMAO SO UDERATED!

    • @charleshines6155
      @charleshines6155 4 года назад +8

      It would be a fun thing to do any play your favorite games while sipping a hot beverage of your choice.

    • @Jaistar2k22
      @Jaistar2k22 4 года назад +3

      You joke but that was my 295x2 quad sli FX-9000 system. I had dual power supplies.

  • @hernancoronel
    @hernancoronel 4 года назад +6613

    Do it again but with a brand new radiator! COME ON THIS IS LTT!

    • @Motishay
      @Motishay 4 года назад +135

      Upvote

    • @berserkoflust7999
      @berserkoflust7999 4 года назад +23

      @@Motishay reddtube?

    • @somnorila9913
      @somnorila9913 4 года назад +160

      Not necessarily a new one, just a clean one. They should had deconstruct it piece by piece, then clean it.

    • @bigfisher42
      @bigfisher42 4 года назад +3

      do it!

    • @UlzYT
      @UlzYT 4 года назад +7

      Nigel lol 😂

  • @WesAndRuss
    @WesAndRuss 3 года назад +341

    “We discovered a minor leak”
    “This is a substantial leak”

  • @NeoNeoNeo
    @NeoNeoNeo 3 года назад +758

    "Can you heat your room with your GPU"
    "Yes. You literally already do. There's no reason to build connect a giant radiator for that to happen."

    • @OriginalHulkLP
      @OriginalHulkLP 3 года назад +39

      I mean. Yeah. Why the heater if you got fans that shoot hot/warm air out and heat your room

    • @sheeplord4976
      @sheeplord4976 3 года назад +51

      @@OriginalHulkLP his excuse is that the energy produced would be kinetic instead of thermal. He forgot that it would soon become kinetic once outside the PC. Also, a giant radiator makes for a good show.

    • @robertagren9360
      @robertagren9360 2 года назад +7

      The only practical is to make tea

    • @PashaGamingYT
      @PashaGamingYT 2 года назад

      This.

    • @PashaGamingYT
      @PashaGamingYT 2 года назад +7

      @@sheeplord4976
      ??????????????????
      That's not how heat works
      The hot air dissipates and heats the room

  • @jiajianhou426
    @jiajianhou426 4 года назад +1176

    College dorm and rented apartment has literally no heat during -10C/0F degrees winters. I run 2 AAA games at the same time on my 6700K + 980Ti + 32Gb ram to heat up the room. It actually works.

    • @Oockeshoek
      @Oockeshoek 4 года назад +173

      Weird flex but ok

    • @jamesbearpark3794
      @jamesbearpark3794 4 года назад +141

      That's a really odd config. 32gb ram but only a 980ti?

    • @UniverseGamerLumi
      @UniverseGamerLumi 4 года назад +17

      James Bearpark not very balanced

    • @charleshines6155
      @charleshines6155 4 года назад +53

      @@jamesbearpark3794 I have 32 GB also but just a GTX 960. I got my ram cheap on eBay from some place and it has worked flawlessly for years now. I would have bought more if my motherboard could address it. Imagine if our ram was not limited by anything other than CPU architecture. 64 bits can support an amazing amount of ram potentially. More than you will ever need for the next couple years anyhow.

    • @kalapoikedeviere7962
      @kalapoikedeviere7962 4 года назад +37

      @Mugen00 yeah not everyone always wants to upgrade their gpu when it still works great

  • @YodaMan.
    @YodaMan. 5 лет назад +1855

    lessons learned?
    1 - buy a new radiator instead of stealing it from a neighbor
    2 - never wear socks with sandals

    • @weirdal3333
      @weirdal3333 4 года назад +40

      3 - use thermocouple instead of running the water through the dirty radiator.

    • @bradleyrex2968
      @bradleyrex2968 4 года назад +35

      4 - Grasp that they are desperate for content and have a limited budget. Most computer equipment they use is provided by advertisers, but no radiator company is going to sponsor them. As with whole house water cooling and fridge in a PC, it's likely to fail because no fridge was donated etc...

    • @night5481
      @night5481 4 года назад +1

      lol

    • @randomisaac5959
      @randomisaac5959 4 года назад +13

      5. Necromancy still isn't illegal

    • @zeka7434
      @zeka7434 4 года назад +1

      And there's 1k likes

  • @Nascar995
    @Nascar995 4 года назад +58

    Having worked with copper pipes in fire suppression systems before, I can confirm that color is entirely normal and flushing it out will only do the trick for a short while - the sitting water in the pipe will get discolored again

  • @RedSeedlesslive
    @RedSeedlesslive 4 года назад +166

    I heated my room last year, in Philadelphia pa, WITH ONLY my pc, (furnace was broken). Comfy.

    • @stellar2k19
      @stellar2k19 3 года назад +6

      Ay philly gang

    • @losttale1
      @losttale1 3 года назад +7

      When you have a blowymatron vega so you turn your pc to blow a hot jet of air on your feet

    • @mythtech
      @mythtech 3 года назад +3

      Run seus ptgi shaders for MC on a potato
      Simple

    • @brytonmassie
      @brytonmassie 3 года назад +2

      Ah yes run the simulation software 24/7

    • @thatguyalex2835
      @thatguyalex2835 2 года назад

      @@brytonmassie Folding at home. :)

  • @thegameguy208
    @thegameguy208 5 лет назад +1941

    Dad! I'm cold, can we run DOOM??

    • @reverseflash8520
      @reverseflash8520 4 года назад +111

      Can we run Crysis?

    • @unocualqu1era
      @unocualqu1era 4 года назад +135

      Son, it's the coldest winter of the last decade... we're going to need to run Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC maxed out at 4k.

    • @Zkako1151
      @Zkako1151 4 года назад +24

      unocualqu1era thats just a death wish dont do it...

    • @adamekcar
      @adamekcar 4 года назад +25

      @@Zkako1151 He's gonna burn his house down.

    • @stanleybowman-hood6194
      @stanleybowman-hood6194 4 года назад +35

      Na son chrome warms you faster

  • @HydraulicPressChannel
    @HydraulicPressChannel 6 лет назад +950

    The kinetic energy and light are not going to magically escape the room so they are also going to turn into heat, so don't worry about fans or fancy lights :D

    • @micomaca
      @micomaca 6 лет назад +84

      You watch Linus? I never seen you press anything pc related. Maybe you should? Lol

    • @DarenPage
      @DarenPage 6 лет назад +8

      Oh haider.

    • @Pyovali
      @Pyovali 6 лет назад +4

      Hydraulic Press Channel Linus lausu saunan oikein

    • @MakenModify
      @MakenModify 6 лет назад +12

      + the moving water has also some kinetic energy ;)

    • @lukeselker5175
      @lukeselker5175 6 лет назад +6

      I love your channel! Glad to see you also watch LTT. New idea, press some old PC monitors/keyboards/peripherals that are essentially worthless now! Go thrifting for some stuff to crush!

  • @wavecutter69
    @wavecutter69 3 года назад +184

    I used to use my original PC as a room heater at night by programming in basic a math equation to solve in a loop and it would run all night heating my bedroom.

    • @hhgxmiing9247
      @hhgxmiing9247 3 года назад +26

      It is actually a good idea, to use the generated heat for something purposeful.
      Few weeks ago, i saw a video from Matpat (from "Game theory") on his new channel "Food theory". talking about the KFC PC.
      Yes .... KFC apparently is developing a PC & you can warm your food with it. At first, it sounds like a scam. But as we have seen, it is a truly good idea.
      Lets see if in the future, the industry makes use of this.

    • @imran5373
      @imran5373 3 года назад +17

      @@hhgxmiing9247 KFConsole

    • @goa141no6
      @goa141no6 2 года назад +8

      Those winter miners really made a buck.

    • @richbob9155
      @richbob9155 2 года назад +8

      why not just buy a heater and save a bunch of money? I get using the heat if you are using the PC anyway but making it run just for a heater is incredibly stupid. The cost is way higher than buying a heater and the wear on the PC parts makes it even less feasible.

    • @paultanzen9434
      @paultanzen9434 2 года назад +17

      @@richbob9155 ew, logic

  •  4 года назад +66

    New 10th generation Intel CPUs will make important contributions to the heating of your home. Choose Intel, heat the whole house with high TDP and inefficient 14nm++++ architecture! :)

    • @monolith253
      @monolith253 3 года назад +2

      Why, intel should leave the CPU business to AMD, and start turning a profit in the heater business

    • @Alex.Smith.26
      @Alex.Smith.26 3 года назад +2

      Aah. A real reason for Intel to exist!

    • @ar12.
      @ar12. 3 года назад

      Miraç Satıç yeah I know once it’s winter in Australia I’ll regret getting amd.

    • @saxreaper
      @saxreaper 3 года назад +1

      Hey man, at least they are cheap now and available because no one wants them, also they still aren’t slow, at least the higher ones, no new higher end processor is slow now

  • @stormthrush37
    @stormthrush37 5 лет назад +2163

    Poor man's way of doing it: just game with your laptop directly on your lap. Instead of heating the room, heat yourself directly. ;)

    • @Eric904P
      @Eric904P 5 лет назад +94

      I used to have burn marks on my leg from the exhaust of my Lenovo laptop I was using for gaming...
      It had the exhaust right in the top left corner of the laptop base, would get hella hot.

    • @Eric904P
      @Eric904P 5 лет назад +9

      @п yeah mine had a bit more powerful i5 in it so I could game, but that ran hot af. I should open it up and clean out again now, probably needs it bad.

    • @AtheismF7W
      @AtheismF7W 5 лет назад +24

      Not good for ur testicles holmies.

    • @stormthrush37
      @stormthrush37 5 лет назад +15

      @@AtheismF7W it is if you don't want to have kids.

    • @stormthrush37
      @stormthrush37 5 лет назад +5

      @@Doobernator A wonderful secondary bonus.

  • @AlfredTsaizer
    @AlfredTsaizer 6 лет назад +589

    I used to work in a low budget 3D animation production studio. We would have 6 workstations and 5 more rendering nodes in a pretty tiny room. We never had to turn on the heating even during sub-zero temperatures in winter. In these conditions, it was a bill saver :D

    • @FrigidBirostrixRay
      @FrigidBirostrixRay 6 лет назад +46

      Alfred Tsaizer that's one way to use render farms lol

    • @munk_ken
      @munk_ken 6 лет назад +25

      This is why the thought of buying a small house or small warehouse in Alaska keeps passing through my mind every summer night.

    • @PennyAfNorberg
      @PennyAfNorberg 6 лет назад +2

      Facebook houses servers in Luleå sweden, that not the warmest place, using the cold.

    • @davidyu5701
      @davidyu5701 5 лет назад +4

      What happen in summer then?

    • @PennyAfNorberg
      @PennyAfNorberg 5 лет назад

      Then they cool it but they may save some cold from winter for a while.

  • @spokehedz
    @spokehedz 4 года назад +296

    "Yep, we did a thing... But why?"
    Easily, 95% of RUclips.

  • @EthanStandel
    @EthanStandel 4 года назад +23

    I live in Maine and every server room I've ever seen around here (3 of 3 all different companies), filters the heat from the servers to the rest of the building during the winter.

  • @andrewrages9862
    @andrewrages9862 5 лет назад +2878

    So u are the one who stole my radiator from behind my house

    • @szn00
      @szn00 5 лет назад +119

      Your radiator is disgusting 😂😂😂

    • @iamaraven8657
      @iamaraven8657 5 лет назад +29

      Nah man I had a screwdriver so I just said f it and went in your house to take it out

    • @masimyildiz
      @masimyildiz 5 лет назад +17

      We picked it up from a dumpyard and make it the happiest radiatior in the world.
      Finally came to the place it deserved throughout life, it is a hi-tech heater now!
      (You must be proud of it.)

    • @kehrbotrsupporter5097
      @kehrbotrsupporter5097 5 лет назад +7

      Hey im gonna get you radiator back i just need 50 bucks and exactly 6 eagle bullets

    • @iamaraven8657
      @iamaraven8657 5 лет назад +7

      @@kehrbotrsupporter5097 what are the bullets for. asking for a friend

  • @TrollFaceTheMan
    @TrollFaceTheMan 5 лет назад +334

    4:29, man I hate minor substantial leaks...

  • @Tomithy
    @Tomithy 4 года назад +54

    6:36 for a split second i literally thought my pc blue screened

    • @manatster
      @manatster 3 года назад +9

      *laughs in mobile*

    • @CrimsonSax
      @CrimsonSax 3 года назад +6

      you actually watch LTT vids in full screen?

    • @mitsostechtips9047
      @mitsostechtips9047 3 года назад +1

      @@CrimsonSax who in the world does watch yt videos without being on full screen lmao

    • @CrimsonSax
      @CrimsonSax 3 года назад +6

      @@mitsostechtips9047 youre joking right?

    • @Akyomi777
      @Akyomi777 3 года назад

      @@mitsostechtips9047 my phone lags a lot in full screen

  • @fiftyfat
    @fiftyfat 3 года назад +27

    By the way, "light energy" ends up as heat when absorbed (not necesseraly in your room though but mostly) and thermal energy is basically kinetic energy on the microscopic level (giggling molecules)

  • @mattd5719
    @mattd5719 4 года назад +676

    This is a game changer for Canada.
    -"How do you keep your house warm in winter? Wood stove? Natural gas? Furnace? Baseboard heater?"
    -"No. I game."
    On a side note, anything consuming wattage, is a heater. Some more efficient than others, but also more boring. If you work from home, online, then using a pc to heat an area actually pays for its self.

    • @mattd5719
      @mattd5719 4 года назад +26

      If one really wanted to one could even put the radiator outside. Fill the lines with coolant, and game with everything over clocked. Having the coolant run at a nice and steady -20c/-30c in the dead of winter. Dealing with the condensation is another matter though...the board would have to have a coating on it if the condensation became a problem.

    • @mattd5719
      @mattd5719 4 года назад +1

      I wonder if a clear plastidip would do the trick.

    • @petersimon1435
      @petersimon1435 4 года назад +31

      Anything electrical is equally 99.999% efficient at heating. Every watt that comes into the room and doesn't go out the window as a photon is a watt that stays and heats the room. Maybe exactly lightbulbs are less efficient.

    • @TexMex421
      @TexMex421 4 года назад +2

      How did your cousin die again Pete?
      Pete: He was a gamer, and thought the PC would keep hm warm.
      In Canada? You sure he wasn't from Georgia or something?
      Oh and if you want to chill the PC to -20ish and it's -20ish outside... put the PC outside.

    • @Soitisisit
      @Soitisisit 4 года назад +5

      @@TexMex421 Just fill your room with cryptocurrency miners, you'll be fine

  • @MrSeon123
    @MrSeon123 6 лет назад +321

    Heating a room in the summer. Perfect timing.

    • @operationsauce7511
      @operationsauce7511 6 лет назад +1

      i was gonna comment the same thing

    • @blancfilms
      @blancfilms 6 лет назад +8

      What about the souther hemisphere?

    • @subterficial
      @subterficial 6 лет назад +11

      Linus obviously looking out for our southern hemisphere brethren. Good guy Linus looking out for the NZ's.

    • @jaggsta
      @jaggsta 6 лет назад +4

      video was prob made 3 months ago lol

    • @ashaw1016
      @ashaw1016 6 лет назад +3

      Typical northerner, thinking the world ends at the equator

  • @TruFalco
    @TruFalco 3 года назад +15

    I feel like just by the data you guys used, use a brand new fresh radiator, this could actually possibly be viable. I hope they revisit the idea soon with different test vectors like a small room vs a regular size room (700 sq ft or 65 sq meters) and maybe have a test where the PC isn't in the same room as the radiator and see what that does to temps. PC wise and radiator room wise.

  • @imbadatgames568
    @imbadatgames568 4 года назад +45

    LInus: We don't recommend the way we did it
    Me: yeah no crap

  • @dylanw2100_
    @dylanw2100_ 5 лет назад +581

    4:31 “we also detected a *minor* leak”
    “iTs a PrEtTy SubStAntiAl LeAk!”

  • @nikanj
    @nikanj 6 лет назад +710

    I don't see why the big radiator was necessary at all. The heat output of the system would have been the same on air cooling or just a regular PC radiator.
    I guess a better cooler would have allowed the system to dissipate more heat faster and therefore run at higher clocks without throttling. But a regular water-cooling loop would have done a better job at that than a big rusty passive radiator.

    • @RealRaynedance
      @RealRaynedance 6 лет назад +197

      It's LTT. They don't do normal.

    • @GtmNayan
      @GtmNayan 6 лет назад +16

      To heat his room Goddamit.

    • @zombiebillofthedead
      @zombiebillofthedead 6 лет назад +30

      The size of the cooler does matter for a lot of reasons. That's why they make different sizes. This thing isn't great because for all it's mass, it doesn't have much surface area. That's why it was so hot when he touched it.

    • @MidnightMarrow
      @MidnightMarrow 6 лет назад +16

      Has quite a bit of surface area, lacks the density / compactness of typical radiators but the entire things meant to soak heat from water and radiate it into the room. Obviously it doesn't magically multiply the heat and for as hot as gpus n such get it's still going to put out the same max heat regardless what it's cooled with.

    • @evanwoody4362
      @evanwoody4362 6 лет назад +17

      I would have preferred they just used aftermarket air fans on the graphics card and cpu would have worked just as good and been much faster to heat up the room

  • @sean7891233
    @sean7891233 3 года назад +13

    2:18 “THIS is Bertha!”
    ...
    ... SPEECHLESS

  • @Nostalgia_Realm
    @Nostalgia_Realm 3 года назад +74

    11:18 Linus contemplating his life after shooting another video

  • @glock21guy
    @glock21guy 5 лет назад +563

    What's the point of the radiator? Wouldn't air cooling work just as well for this test? The energy/heat is still going to be dissipated into the room.
    All the radiator would be doing is giving it a middle-man.

    • @nznegativeions
      @nznegativeions 5 лет назад +205

      @Rozar Natrim no

    • @allypezz
      @allypezz 5 лет назад +45

      The fan increases the rate of heat transfer so a fan would actually emit heat faster. Essentially the radiator is never going to be hot enough to burn your hand- it will be relatively tepid so it will basically heat your room the same as a small isolated ejection of air.

    • @stathisbikos6563
      @stathisbikos6563 5 лет назад +124

      No, it really doens't. It's the same wattage. It will increase the surface area but decrease the ΔT. So there is no difference whatsoever. It's absolutely pointless

    • @westno
      @westno 5 лет назад +58

      The only benefit from radiator is that it retains the heat energy in the coolant for a while after shutting your pc.

    • @MiloTheFirst1
      @MiloTheFirst1 5 лет назад +47

      The point of the radiator is to have a larger scale water cooler. This is in order for the gpu to work at is Max potential. The air cooling would theoretically result in the same room net heat, but you are not taking into consideration that the gpu and cpu have protection mechanisms that make them turn down their power if they are too hot themselves. Air cooling would result in a lot of very hot air still lingering inside the case which would in turn slow down the system in turn not producing as much heat as it could have over time. By adding all that mass of water and make it flow around all that surface they are quickly distributing the heat produced by the system, by keeping the system warm instead of having a super hot case slowly dissipating into the room they can let it work at full force without stopping thus producing as much heat as it possibly can

  • @lfox02
    @lfox02 6 лет назад +212

    Whole Room Watercooling 2! :D

    • @The_Keeper
      @The_Keeper 6 лет назад +7

      More like 'Whole Room Waterheating' :D

    • @Shrimpin_Needles
      @Shrimpin_Needles 6 лет назад

      Nick you started at 2013 WOW!

    • @cjallen233
      @cjallen233 6 лет назад

      Didn't they already do that?

    • @JumpeFurby
      @JumpeFurby 6 лет назад

      think that was a pizza heater?

    • @Wulthrin
      @Wulthrin 6 лет назад

      i think they could do it better. especially with the additional resources compared to back then

  • @foe_twennielocksports2800
    @foe_twennielocksports2800 3 года назад +15

    Wouldn't mind seeing this again with a new (clean) heater to start with

  • @reedtassell4847
    @reedtassell4847 3 года назад +11

    We all went to my friends house for his birthday, and we had 3 air cooled PCs in his bedroom, and boy that thing was pretty much a sauna

  • @TechTunerLife
    @TechTunerLife 6 лет назад +2459

    Linus is becoming the new Mythbusters. 🤔

    • @Boba0514
      @Boba0514 6 лет назад +87

      just a f*cked up version without proper physics...

    • @ACTlVISION
      @ACTlVISION 6 лет назад +39

      All the budget and none of the science, not gonna lie it's a bit frustrating he refuses to research anything before videos... or just retarded shit like using an old gunky radiator.

    • @kingnfs1
      @kingnfs1 6 лет назад +17

      Adam Savage do said that as long it have data, its science!

    • @hantuan107
      @hantuan107 6 лет назад +24

      not surprise since he has to basically push out a video every single day. For that I must give him credit

    • @mr.farrowsclass6592
      @mr.farrowsclass6592 6 лет назад +24

      I think there is more background research than he let's on. When he had problems he occasionally talks about using tech support, forums, etc.
      But I think he's like a lot of us who try stuff first and then figure out the right way after a couple attempts.

  • @imadecoy.
    @imadecoy. 6 лет назад +126

    I once lived in a college dorm where I couldn't adjust the heating and it was too cold inside when it was -30°C or colder outside. Solved this by turning on 4 game consoles, a TV, and folding@home on my GPU.

    • @kidsythe
      @kidsythe 6 лет назад +12

      something1random23 I gpu mined cuase it was 2015-2016 and electricity was free.

    • @ExabyteAU
      @ExabyteAU 6 лет назад +8

      lol that sounds like a real deal, "Free Energy"

    • @o0GermanGuy0o
      @o0GermanGuy0o 6 лет назад +6

      You could have just bought a small electric heater.

    • @tissuewater
      @tissuewater 6 лет назад

      Electric heaters are expensive to run

    • @fredrikcarlen3212
      @fredrikcarlen3212 6 лет назад +2

      Ten Yuu Kusuhara and a computer isn't?

  • @meagain448
    @meagain448 4 года назад +4

    I actually did use my gaming PC to keep me warm through one cold winter's night when our gas unexpectedly ran out and I was too broke to go out and buy an electric space heater. So instead, I fired up Crisis, moved the tower closer to my bed, and just let the game idle all night. It certainly worked. My room wasn't 'warm', but it was certainly warmer than the rest of our little bachelor pad lol

  • @surajdixit6717
    @surajdixit6717 4 года назад +62

    "We also detected a minor leak"
    This is a pretty significant leak.

  • @ElectronPower
    @ElectronPower 6 лет назад +240

    Nice cooling system but it won't make any difference with heating. You'd get the same results even by just using a passive heatsink on the gpu. The only thing that matters is the power that's being dissipated. If you use a radiator you'll have a lot of mass at lower temperature and if you just use the stock heatsink, you'll have lower mass at higher temperature (of course assuming that the gpu wouldn't have lowered its performance due to overheating). In other words: for the purpose of heating, this system is a waste of space but it will however, help keep the gpu cool and running at a high frame rate.

    • @agoodname3781
      @agoodname3781 6 лет назад +22

      Yes I thought the same. As long as it does not thermal throttle the same amount of heat should need to be let out into the surrounding room, since it ideally a closed system.

    • @DrakenMusic
      @DrakenMusic 6 лет назад +6

      It makes a big difference, as the surface area of the "heat sink" is way higher they way Linus did it, which results in faster heating.

    • @danielfurey6784
      @danielfurey6784 6 лет назад +8

      it results in slower heating. it takes more time for a temperature change in more mass

    • @PeterParker-tb7ce
      @PeterParker-tb7ce 6 лет назад +1

      Yeah, This experiment made no sense to me. I think a better test would have been the Computer being outside the room they were heating.

    • @TdrSld
      @TdrSld 6 лет назад +2

      It well take a longer time to rise in temp, but you now have a stored mass of heat, this is like having a rocket mass heater. A small heat sink well dump the heat as soon as it picks it up, were as what linus setup well take some time to equalize across it's mass. then it will slowly and evenly across it's mass radiate that heat back into the room. The right way to test this would have been to measure time to target temp from base temp, then back down from target temp to base temp, seeing how long each system held target temp. As anyone who as ever owned a modern pc knows that are heat pumps lol.

  • @dragos2010full1
    @dragos2010full1 6 лет назад +55

    PART 2 WITH BRAND NEW ALUMINUM RADIATOR so the gpu isnt thermal throttle and the setup is more efficient

  • @khanscombe619
    @khanscombe619 3 года назад

    I did a project similar to this on an ASUS X48 w/ Q6600 using a automotive 4 row heater core 3" thick copper and brass 10x15". I did it to move the exchanged heat outside my window for Los Angeles summers and inside w/ low fan during what little winter we have. It takes long but if you get it up in morning its good all day. But I don't like being in the warm room so my next project will be to let someone else have the heat. my other plan was to mount the core inside my heater return w/ fan only on to move heat.

  • @xaidwithanx3017
    @xaidwithanx3017 4 года назад +1

    I was sad b4 watching this vid but when Linus brought out that radiator it made my day much better. Thank u

  • @ZaraUnityMasters
    @ZaraUnityMasters 5 лет назад +146

    Voiceover Linus: "We found a minor leak"
    Real Linus: "That's a real substantial leak"

  • @OTechnology
    @OTechnology 6 лет назад +687

    Works great if you use it for mining too. Profitable room heater lol

    • @leerman22
      @leerman22 6 лет назад

      If you're in canada

    • @zillhax1525
      @zillhax1525 6 лет назад

      That's what I did with my PC xD

    • @zebrad
      @zebrad 6 лет назад

      O!Technology too bad mining is slowly becoming useless

    • @kevinbeltran1336
      @kevinbeltran1336 6 лет назад +35

      Actually... actually...
      >Buy a multi family house and rent out the apartments
      >rip out the water boiler.
      >replace with a substantial mining rig
      >profit

    • @zillhax1525
      @zillhax1525 6 лет назад +1

      zebrad R.I.P Free space heater

  • @marnoi8754
    @marnoi8754 3 года назад +35

    Let's do it with a new radiator, it's been 3 years 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @Adam-de8jm
      @Adam-de8jm 3 года назад +2

      Well they tried a car radiator didn’t really work out lmao

    • @williamshaw3rd
      @williamshaw3rd 3 года назад +1

      @@Adam-de8jm they clearly had no intentions of making the connections remotely good

  • @OllAxe
    @OllAxe 3 года назад +2

    Something worth noting is that the kinetic energy from fans will eventually fizzle out as heat due to friction. The light from the RGB lighting will also be absorbed in the room and turn to heat. That means, aside from any light from the computer that may leave the room through a window, pretty much every watt will eventually be turned into heat inside your room. You don't even need a radiator for it, and as you concluded in the video, all it does is add thermal mass and slow down the heating process

  • @ListersHatsune
    @ListersHatsune 6 лет назад +40

    Oddly enough, I actually use my PC to heat my home. Doesn't work enough in the winter but it works too well in the summer

  • @Aravanus
    @Aravanus 6 лет назад +48

    Since we are on the topic of using computers to heat things up: Still waiting on that pizza warmer build.

    • @henryjiang9664
      @henryjiang9664 6 лет назад +1

      Aravanus Get a oldish AMD A10 APU

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 6 лет назад

      Aravanus
      Pizza, you need granite plate as a base, wood blocks, 400 to 500 Celsius, unable to do at home, unable to to on a channel kitchen build Linus level!
      You eat fried Pizza's, you better call Domino's! You need food skills, try real Italian chef, are you any near NYC? See how to make them first!

    • @iMadrid11
      @iMadrid11 6 лет назад

      lucas rem That’s a pizza oven not a warmer. A pizza warmer is basically just a food warmer used by restaurants and caterers. Samcrac’s Dominos DXP Car is a good example of a pizza warmer.

    • @NamelessPassenger
      @NamelessPassenger 6 лет назад

      Chris Bautista that is what he wamt man. He played overnight so he had to order shipping pizza. And when it cold out. The energy can heat it up or warm it up

  • @adamberndt4190
    @adamberndt4190 2 года назад

    I've been doing HVAC since 2004, We have special 'bendy' hoses for our pressure washer we use to stick in all the holes of the radiator when we clean em. The water sprays outta the tip at like 360° also.

  • @buildthis2324
    @buildthis2324 3 года назад

    There are some of PCI express style pass-through parts you can buy to run quick connects outside the case. Watercool PCI Slot Pass-Through Bracket on AquaTuning. Runs 20 bucks.

  • @BRICK8492
    @BRICK8492 5 лет назад +343

    Step 1: By an old HP server
    Step 2: Install two Xeon X5460's
    Step 3: Never use your house's heater again :D

    • @NoorquackerInd
      @NoorquackerInd 5 лет назад +32

      Got a Dell server with 2 X5355 Xeons a few years ago, powered it on, left it in the computer room of our house, brother and dad were going to lynch me for putting an effective space heater in the only room in the house without AC during a Midwest US summer

    • @ryantoomey611
      @ryantoomey611 5 лет назад +1

      You won't be able to sleep it will be so loud.

    • @Ravalo354
      @Ravalo354 4 года назад +4

      @@ryantoomey611 unless you use passive cooling

    • @edjoecdn
      @edjoecdn 4 года назад +2

      @@NoorquackerInd , The beauty about hydronic ( water) heating is with a couple of 3-way values you could have a "summer" external rad plumbed to elsewhere... a secondary water heater coil or outside...thus just cooling the PC

    • @campkira
      @campkira 4 года назад

      just turn it to your feet normally it is warm enough...

  • @WyvernApalis
    @WyvernApalis 5 лет назад +289

    That big radiator doesn't make any difference lmao, makes it slower if anything
    if you just use the PC with a fan it would be quicker

    • @timpedra
      @timpedra 4 года назад +22

      Gotta make some drama and farm some views.

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi 4 года назад +35

      The big radiator will both heat up much slower and cool down much slower, providing a more even temperature.

    • @powerpc127
      @powerpc127 4 года назад +22

      Yes, but when you game with the radiator you could also put a pot on it and slow cook dinner or keep some mac n' cheese warm.

    • @zachbrown7272
      @zachbrown7272 4 года назад +5

      thermal mass homie. get your thermo right,

    • @myid9876543
      @myid9876543 4 года назад +23

      Literally doesn’t even matter your cooling choice, if you’re not throttling. If you’re not throttling, a watt is a watt is a watt and it’ll dissipate the same energy no matter how

  • @DThorn619
    @DThorn619 3 года назад +5

    Back in my college dorm days our rooms didn't have heaters so I improvised and had my PC set to mine crypto overnight. I earned money and substantially heated up my room at the same time, only gripe was the loud fan speed but that was bearable.

  • @poulet_fourrea_la_banane4654
    @poulet_fourrea_la_banane4654 4 года назад +6

    Would've been interesting to compare with how much time the computer takes to heat the room without the radiator thought. Because cast iron is used to accumulate heat while aluminium is more conductive.

  • @augusli9716
    @augusli9716 5 лет назад +538

    lol ive already got a heater, I use a pentium 4

    • @TheLucidDreamer12
      @TheLucidDreamer12 5 лет назад +23

      I do you one better, I've got a Pentium D

    • @mikem9536
      @mikem9536 5 лет назад +5

      I had the Presshot, that thing heated up any room.

    • @syamantakbharti3463
      @syamantakbharti3463 5 лет назад

      I got a g i guess Pentium g4560 or is mine a d?

    • @ondrakahoun6930
      @ondrakahoun6930 5 лет назад +2

      I use intel 2 core duo

    • @sed8181
      @sed8181 5 лет назад +1

      I just turn on my fat xbox 360. it might get rrod soon though.

  • @colossalbreacker
    @colossalbreacker 4 года назад +179

    That big radiator does nothing. Either way, the same energy is converted to heat and distributed to the room.

    • @nagoshi01
      @nagoshi01 4 года назад +21

      Not having a radiator means that the temps would be more heterogeneous in the room. More heat would be concentrated at the pc, meaning higher cpu and gpu temps, which could result in thermal throttling and therefore a smaller power output.

    • @thenoblehacker9111
      @thenoblehacker9111 4 года назад +35

      Sean Demers google what heterogeneous means before you use it.

    • @SuperD00D
      @SuperD00D 4 года назад +30

      Zlflo the temps would be more homosexual

    • @bradhaines3142
      @bradhaines3142 4 года назад +20

      @@nagoshi01 totally backwards. the rad holds water which has an exceptionally high heat capacity, so it holds the heat like a sponge. doing this on air would get the heat out faster, making the heat more HOMOGENEOUS, which is the proper use of the word.

    • @atlmember4045
      @atlmember4045 4 года назад +24

      @@bradhaines3142 heterogeneous was used correctly.

  • @SentientBratwurst
    @SentientBratwurst 3 года назад

    I just want to say that I had a stock 7970 and absolutely enjoyed it as a room heater. It kept my toes warm in the winter.

  • @TNinja0
    @TNinja0 4 года назад +12

    Honestly. I had such a small room 10 years ago, my PC WAS actually my heater. And our winter could reach -25C at that time.

  • @BigReddthehebrew
    @BigReddthehebrew 5 лет назад +586

    Annnnd let's put the pc on the hot radiator......that just burned our hand.....classic Linus

    • @TrueBluw
      @TrueBluw 5 лет назад +37

      my hand
      stalin: no
      our hand
      stalin: AYY

    • @MrTibbs90
      @MrTibbs90 4 года назад +1

      But, this is why we love Linus.

  • @mcmadness6789
    @mcmadness6789 6 лет назад +61

    Linus : we detected a minor leak
    Also Linus : we have a pretty substantial leak

  • @thisaccountisntreal107
    @thisaccountisntreal107 4 года назад

    Teflon tape won't always cut it if youre doing this kind of thing again I recommend using some solder(the kind with acid in it made for pipes)

  • @girhen
    @girhen 4 года назад +1

    RTX 2080 Super, Ryzen 3800X, 30F outside, and Covid-19 Folding@Home all go well together. When I got cold, I literally warmed up my room...for science! And comfort. It's a good thing I'm a Southerner living in the Northern US. It's 72 in my office and I'm cold in long sleeves.
    Also, called the water's thermal capacity before you got it going. Just use air cooling.

  • @Perqqq
    @Perqqq 6 лет назад +118

    Air's kinetic energy is also dissipated into heat due to friction. Air-to-air friction, that is. So it doesn't really matter how much fans you have - it will end as heat anyways

    • @TheAdatto
      @TheAdatto 6 лет назад

      PerqTV ehm no

    • @TheTaXoro
      @TheTaXoro 6 лет назад +23

      Yes... If you know anything about physics you'd know that any use of energy will eventually be converted into thermal energy, thus heat. Your fans will lose energy from friction which heats the roam, the RGB lighting will eventually be absorbed by something in your room, slightly warming that object.

    • @petkogeorgiev2103
      @petkogeorgiev2103 6 лет назад +26

      I was looking for this comment for too damn long, this should be higher in the comments.
      The air is moving and therefore it has kinetic energy. But it stops moving (you can't feel the air from the fans from a distance) due to air friction. It loses it's kinetic energy and (first law of thermodynamics) that energy causes the molecules in the air to heat up themselves.
      Moving air slows down because of friction and friction increases temperature.

    • @gungan5822
      @gungan5822 6 лет назад +8

      Yes, any fan will ultimately heat up the room. Fans are used to mix air for better uniformity, or help your sweat evaporate faster, not to cool a room.

    • @Perqqq
      @Perqqq 6 лет назад +3

      Ehm, yes.

  • @GubernareMens
    @GubernareMens 6 лет назад +153

    Bitcoin miners could heat up a city.

    • @FatahChan
      @FatahChan 6 лет назад +1

      at least that good point for miners

    • @techventure3186
      @techventure3186 6 лет назад +2

      I remember when I had 21 280x's in one room, holy shit nearly burnt my icebrows off.

    • @SuzieB23
      @SuzieB23 6 лет назад

      Some Thing The ice caps sure feel is haha

    • @SuzieB23
      @SuzieB23 6 лет назад +1

      You didn’t even need to do that because the amount of energy isn’t being changed. You’ll heat the room just the same running it normally without an old beat up hunk

    • @1014p
      @1014p 4 года назад

      Or better yet run a thermal power generator.

  • @cybrknight70
    @cybrknight70 4 года назад

    Winter is coming into play here in Australia and I just leave my machine on overnight to run folding@home and I swear my room is actually quite comfortable when I wake up. Not toasty admittedly, but comfy enough.

  • @tuftman6092
    @tuftman6092 3 года назад +1

    technically even the kinetic energy pf the fans and the light from the rgb will turn into heat afterwards, but it's such a small amount of energy and it happens so gradually that you don't notice it. Especially when compared to other components like a gpu or a cpu

  • @BL4D3RUNN3R0M3N
    @BL4D3RUNN3R0M3N 5 лет назад +318

    *touches radiator*
    "Oooh thats hot"
    Duh, yeah

  • @tyler6644
    @tyler6644 6 лет назад +52

    7:30 Ouch that's hot...proceeds to touch it again LUL

    • @homerow7
      @homerow7 6 лет назад

      Tyler he touched the middle pipe. The fins on the outside are the cool parts. The middle pipe is where the heat is hense why it's hot.

  • @mathurm100
    @mathurm100 3 года назад

    the initial temperatures were different too. best way to manage it would be to compute the thermal time constants of each and compare that. also with and without the radiator. either way the same amount of energy would be dissipated by the PC irrespective of if there was a giant thermal mass or not. however to be equal, the radiator full of water needed to be in the room with the space heater as well... because it's a huge amount of mass the space heater didn't have to heat to reach steady state.

  • @danielmatthews7666
    @danielmatthews7666 2 года назад +2

    My PC heats my room just fine even with out all of this fancy stuff. When I first got a PC, I had to pick up a portable A.C. unit because it would turn into a sauna in here. In the winter its nice, but any other season it sucks

  • @ChrispyArt
    @ChrispyArt 4 года назад +253

    Ehhh just use the warm air coming out of the case to heat the room 😂😂😂

    • @horatio3852
      @horatio3852 4 года назад +7

      Boooorriiiing))

    • @psun256
      @psun256 4 года назад +27

      @@horatio3852 It's definitely more boring.
      However, no matter what it is, n watts of energy going in will always have n watts of energy coming out. Conservation of energy.
      But if you do think about it, a huge radiator is kinda impractical.

    • @sndgrpr6633
      @sndgrpr6633 4 года назад +3

      Hi @Erotikstudio Winkler GmbH. That radiator will keep your toes warm even if your face is being blasted by an Arctic gale, and it'll continue to radiate it's stored heat long after the PC is switched off right? Question why that's the case and you'll understand the flaws in your argument.

    • @enddy123456
      @enddy123456 4 года назад +20

      @@sndgrpr6633 No, the reason it will do that is because of the thermal soak. If you turn off the PC it will continue to release the heat it stored up during the phase when it wasn't heating the room much on their graph. The same amount of heat is released into the room once the water in the radiator is up to temp.
      The reason it will continue to heat once the PC is switched off is the same reason it isn't working when you first turn it on, and this is why they're used in heating old houses. Your furnace burns for a while, and heats up the water flowing through the radiators in your house, and then turns off. The radiators the radiate the extra heat stored in the water. Once the temperature in your house gets low enough the heater turns back on, and heats the water back up. The radiators only job is to store heat, it will not increase the temperature of the room compared to running the PC with no radiator.

    • @sndgrpr6633
      @sndgrpr6633 4 года назад

      @@enddy123456 No, the reason it will do that has to do with the piece of the puzzle you've managed to talk around - the rate at which the radiator _releases_ heat (you know, the actual job of that radiator). It's that which primarily distinguishes room heater type radiators from other types of heat dissipation systems (including other types of radiators,) and if you had a better grasp of why it's important you might understand why "it will not increase the temperature of the room compared to running the PC with no radiator" is either an incomplete statement or just plain wrong.

  • @lierdakil
    @lierdakil 6 лет назад +473

    Fun for a joke vid, but you do realize that it doesn't matter whether you're using an old heater radiator or not. The PC outputs exactly the same power, and if that power is fully dissipated, then it heats the air, and if not, your PC will quickly overheat. It won't output more heat if you use a bigger radiator because thermodynamics. Bigger radiator doesn't add any energy.

    • @Jac70
      @Jac70 6 лет назад +27

      Yep - nonsense video. You are still using the same amount of energy if you turn off your heater and play a game on your PC instead. It's like saying you can save energy by using a different 500w heater to the 500w heater you normally use.

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix 6 лет назад +31

      Nikolay Yakimov. Nowhere in the video was that claim made....

    • @Jern_97
      @Jern_97 6 лет назад +13

      Also the kinetic energy and light are also converted into heat (by fricition and absorption) so ....

    • @wafflexboy
      @wafflexboy 6 лет назад +10

      I totally agree with you. If anything the extra water needed to fill the stupid radiator made it take longer for the room to heat up. Plus, the space heater looses energy to light too as the coils start to glow, but maybe that energy is regained as it bounced around, I don't know. But you get a lot more use out of a PC. Way more efficient.

    • @r.f.s.8766
      @r.f.s.8766 6 лет назад +26

      Ok but wouldn`t the big radiator spread the heat more efficiently? Instead of small fans blowing the heat right against the wall behind the pc or up against the desk?

  • @Dell-ol6hb
    @Dell-ol6hb 2 года назад

    It's actually really handy deep in winter when my room gets really cold (even with heating) so doing some heavy gaming on my pc makes my room noticeably toastier

  • @ferretfrenzy05
    @ferretfrenzy05 4 года назад

    My dad used to keep the house at 65 degrees in the winter. I had triple crossfire 7950's watercooled. I always came out of my room to a cool breeze.

  • @pod650
    @pod650 6 лет назад +152

    If this doesn't feature a FX 9xxx CPU I will be disappointed.
    Edit: I am disappointed.

    • @MJ-uk6lu
      @MJ-uk6lu 6 лет назад +4

      or Pentium 4

    • @drozcan
      @drozcan 6 лет назад +8

      Then this video would be meaningless because FX 9xxx is already a heater by itself.

    • @MJ-uk6lu
      @MJ-uk6lu 6 лет назад

      Problem with heater? Isn't this a main point of whole video?

    • @meistersan0815
      @meistersan0815 6 лет назад +10

      ...and crossfire r9 290x's

    • @mileskosik472
      @mileskosik472 6 лет назад +9

      Bro core i9s run much hotter.

  • @mrrabbit6680
    @mrrabbit6680 6 лет назад +74

    Why even use the old heater the PC with a normal rad would output just as much heat! That way you also wouldn't have to wait so long for the water to heat up!!!

    • @LLesof
      @LLesof 6 лет назад +1

      Ben Kuijers they also wouldn’t have that green goo around there

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 6 лет назад

      Ben Kuijers
      Most people use iPad's now, PC gamer's, not so many need high Watt gear, GTX 1050 enough.....

    • @makorek
      @makorek 6 лет назад +1

      just american low iq

    • @TheHOOfan1
      @TheHOOfan1 6 лет назад +5

      except they're Canadian....

    • @evennot
      @evennot 6 лет назад

      Moreover, it's better to use old hardware for such project, for instance you can overclock a lot of ancient CPUs to consume around 130 Watts. Also you could scrap all the "energy efficient" lightbulbs and use many low powered incandescent ones if you plan to use electric (infrared or convection) heaters. It's actually much better for the environment to use cheaper bulbs (in terms of build and recycling price and thus ecological impact) in this particular scenario.
      I set up a mining rig as a heater in winter made from the obsolete hardware just for lulz. Though the noise was rather uncomfortable, so I stopped it within a week.

  • @Kevin-kk2rx
    @Kevin-kk2rx 4 года назад

    the kinetic energy from your fans will ultimately be turned into heat as well. as the air gets moved around it heats up from friction as it collides with slower or stagnant air around it. as for the LEDs the light will heat up any surface it hits. any work being done will turn into thermal energy in the end, one way or another.

  • @kozaks5727
    @kozaks5727 4 года назад

    My PC actually used to do this before I got better fans, it's an open air case plus my room is small it actually got pretty hot to the point that I had to open my windows in the middle of the winter.

  • @LewisGazzard
    @LewisGazzard 6 лет назад +40

    The moment of panic when 6:37 popped up, for a split second my heart dropped.

    • @MadTrollGaming
      @MadTrollGaming 6 лет назад +2

      Get Windows 10 LTSB. I did and have ZERO regrets.

    • @DeeSnow97
      @DeeSnow97 6 лет назад +2

      Moment of confusion here, I'm on Linux

    • @Koisheep
      @Koisheep 6 лет назад

      Same and I'm on a tablet

    • @lloyd26
      @lloyd26 6 лет назад

      A "blue" stop screen on a Mac. 😂😂😂

    • @jousboxx9532
      @jousboxx9532 6 лет назад

      if you're expecting it then it doesn't make you panic

  • @mojoNoodlz
    @mojoNoodlz 6 лет назад +106

    Should have used a radiator used in cars, preferably new, it would have saved so much time.

    • @mr.farrowsclass6592
      @mr.farrowsclass6592 6 лет назад +11

      mojoNoodlz plus it would have been easier to find a cheap aluminum one

    • @TEHBR0LY
      @TEHBR0LY 6 лет назад +14

      Car radiators use to be a thing back in the day for water cooling PCs, back when the idea of water cooling was new.

    • @AlashAls
      @AlashAls 6 лет назад +3

      May linus sees your comment

    • @skuzzyj
      @skuzzyj 6 лет назад +5

      BROLY
      I remember. Everything had to be done custom in those days.
      First time I saw a water loop, it confused the hell out of me.

    • @rjnash2610
      @rjnash2610 6 лет назад

      Plus wayyyy more efficient!

  • @Blackinterceptor999
    @Blackinterceptor999 3 года назад

    I think it's about time for a part two, time to make it work.

  • @aharnishpithva6455
    @aharnishpithva6455 4 года назад +4

    The fan’s energy and lights energy also gets converted to heat ultimately

  • @johnSmith-tl5gv
    @johnSmith-tl5gv 6 лет назад +347

    I'm sending this to my Physics teacher

    • @Quick_in_and_out
      @Quick_in_and_out 6 лет назад +32

      He'll die because is was such a waste to use a huge external heater. Better results would be had with traditional heat sinks. Basic thermodynamics.

    • @waveman5894
      @waveman5894 6 лет назад +41

      W Bond You underestimate the heating power of amd cards. They say amd cards are used to heat the pumps of geothermal generator when earth is not hot enough.

    • @RagnarokLoW
      @RagnarokLoW 6 лет назад +6

      yes and no. Using this method, you COULD heat a different room instead of your room which could be useful. And while it takes longer for their method to get started, it would in effect keep heating for a long time after the gaming session is ended.

    • @Quick_in_and_out
      @Quick_in_and_out 6 лет назад +4

      The third law of thermodynamics disagree's with you. The rate at which the room heats would be slower yes but total heat generated would still be the same. So in actual fact, you lose useful heat by adding extra mass to the equation. The extra mass absorbs some of the heat.
      Therefore, using standard heatsinks is more effective, regardless of "longer time after gaming". You'd still be better off without it

    • @cubertmiso
      @cubertmiso 6 лет назад +6

      I feel sad for the physics teacher who now watches this vid without any new information. Your teacher should ask your class to write what they did wrong/right in this experiment.

  • @kangaroo4024
    @kangaroo4024 6 лет назад +97

    why not buy a new clean lightweight radiator heater instead :p Revisit this one with a better setup. I'd be curious :)

    • @Moe-mr6mx
      @Moe-mr6mx 6 лет назад +1

      @jayz2cents

    • @123FireSnake
      @123FireSnake 6 лет назад +4

      your pc is doing the exact same thing as the abomination they built only more efficient the radiator is an unneccessary step to icrease entertainment value

  • @bearbear7753
    @bearbear7753 2 года назад +1

    Way back when my dual 4870x2 did a great job during Seattle's winter months

  • @Talhalarasha
    @Talhalarasha 4 года назад

    I think a second hand industrial radiator would do the trick. Like one from a larger airconditioner. They are clean and cheap.

  • @nutz4gunz457
    @nutz4gunz457 6 лет назад +1748

    A couple ps4 pros will heat your whole house.

    • @mr8610
      @mr8610 6 лет назад +221

      Nutz4Gunz45 and make you deaf at the same time

    • @FrozenIce
      @FrozenIce 6 лет назад +87

      all you need is a pentium 4

    • @bigz4349
      @bigz4349 6 лет назад +32

      PS4 Propeller

    • @simyhann8297
      @simyhann8297 6 лет назад +6

      you just need 1 ps4 slim

    • @imadecoy.
      @imadecoy. 6 лет назад +5

      It only uses 160 W though.

  • @lal12
    @lal12 6 лет назад +8

    All the energy your PC uses ends up as heat in your room. The kinetic energy of the coolers is passed on to the moving air which will absorb it through friction in the air. Also the led lights will reflect on walls multiple times until it is turning to heat. So the only energy not absorbed into your room, is the little bit of light which goes through the window. But we all know you only game in the window less basement of your parents never showering ^^, so everything goes into your room :D. Besides you need at least 20 LEDs per Watt, so its energy is nelegible any way.

  • @kylejohnston9949
    @kylejohnston9949 3 года назад

    I have a relatively small room and my pc is on 24/7, just idling. Theres no heat system in my house and my room is always at least a few degrees warmer than my roommates rooms, it makes my room nice and comfortable in the winter :)

  • @wyvern4588
    @wyvern4588 4 года назад

    I think my hungriest system I built was a watercooled FX 8570 overclocked to 4.9ghz and an overclocked 290X.
    Looking at about 300W at the CPU and about 410W at the GPU, taking about 820W from the wall.
    But that was back in Illinois, living in a 1940's home that was built for summer use with almost no insulation and placed on mud- so that heat was very welcome- but when summer, that room was a sauna.

  • @thetimelords911
    @thetimelords911 6 лет назад +75

    Its funny because having an air cooled PC without a gigantic rad like that would be just as good. The heat output would have been identical.

    • @kevind.3074
      @kevind.3074 6 лет назад +19

      The Timelords but with this method you could put the radiator outside in the winter and have a super cool pc

    • @thetimelords911
      @thetimelords911 6 лет назад +11

      +Kevin D.
      Hmmm.... That would be *cool*

    • @chrisrawr6177
      @chrisrawr6177 5 лет назад

      Honestly i thought about something similar when i lived in North Dakota where from between November and march the highs are just above freezing and the lows where as far as -40 with entire days never even getting above 0. So if you have a large Rad filled with something that won't freeze (from what i heard Antifreeze for cars is not a good idea) and put it outside i imagine you could get some pretty low temps in your pc.

    • @Mart-E12
      @Mart-E12 5 лет назад

      Damn that's a good idea. Someone should try it

    • @NielsSHansen
      @NielsSHansen 5 лет назад +6

      @@chrisrawr6177 And condensation in your computer, which is not a good idea if you like a computer that works.

  • @unlap9377
    @unlap9377 6 лет назад +97

    We want a cleaner test!!! Do it again with other powerful rigs!

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 6 лет назад

      Unlapsed
      Just upload it, why chat?
      Cleaner? do your thing, we see if you did a good job!

    • @kevinporta4738
      @kevinporta4738 6 лет назад +2

      I second the motion

    • @ignasanchezl
      @ignasanchezl 6 лет назад +7

      This should had been done with the best price to heat GPUs you can get:
      Literally GTX 480s
      4 of them

    • @aqueousdog
      @aqueousdog 6 лет назад

      Ignafiltro Sanchez In SLI

    • @ShadowDragoon004
      @ShadowDragoon004 6 лет назад +2

      LITERALLY cleaner, since you said the gunk probably affected the test. Rinse the system again, MAKING SURE to get out the gunk, and see how it does!

  • @lunatik9696
    @lunatik9696 3 года назад

    I have 2 SFF PCs side by side and they definitely add a few degrees to the room.
    In Winter, this is a bonus, Summer not so much.

  • @fridaycaliforniaa236
    @fridaycaliforniaa236 3 года назад +1

    Might be a joke in Canada, but here in South-East France, this is the perfect heater during winters. I've literally never used my heater cause I had a SLI with 2 GTX-680s and an OCed i7 ^^

  • @Anonymous-pr3gr
    @Anonymous-pr3gr 6 лет назад +162

    Dump the water cooler radiator in the snow outside. No more heat problems.....

    • @TheRguru1
      @TheRguru1 6 лет назад +10

      Gonna need some REALLY long tubing

    • @thedude3189
      @thedude3189 6 лет назад +3

      Well yeah that's how a cooling system works lol,

    • @Canuck307
      @Canuck307 6 лет назад +12

      Ha, I actually kind of do this. I have a 9x120 rad I put in the window during the winter months and tie into my loop. Mainly so my computer room stays cool, but def helps cpu and gpu temps.
      Specs:
      Windows 10
      i7 5960x OC @4.5GHz
      3x Titan Black OC (+180 GPU / +300 MEM)
      G.Skill 64GB RAM @ 2400MHz
      Rampage V Extreme MOBO
      Intel 600P 512GB M.2 PCI (OS)(Some games)
      4x Intel 730 256GB Raid 0 (Game)
      2x Crucial M4 128GB (Media)
      2X WD Red 4TB (Media) (Backup)
      Asus ROG Swift PG279Q 2k 166Hz (Main)
      2x Asus PB287Q 4k 60Hz (Sides)
      Corsair 900D case
      Corsair 1200i PSU
      Cooling: Two loops (Custom loops)
      CPU & mosfet: (140 Rad Pull) & (480 Rad push/pull)
      GPU's (360 & 480/ Push & pull) Basement install

    • @Nighterlev
      @Nighterlev 6 лет назад +4

      Wouldn't that basically destroy the cooler due to condensation and rust starting to form?

    • @thedude3189
      @thedude3189 6 лет назад

      Nighterlev you've never seen a pc cooling system? It's called water cooling... Google it lmao

  • @ThomasWard2896
    @ThomasWard2896 4 года назад +5

    The furnace went out in my family's house as a kid and in the interim my brother and I used a couple of Prescott P4 Dell towers to heat our room. On a cold night (for the south, 25-30 F or so) the room didn't drop below 75* F. Can confirm, heating with PC works.

  • @kanarie93
    @kanarie93 3 года назад

    honestly doing it with BOINC. For now keeping the basement "dry" and "comfortable" as it s not in use for food anymore. some servers keep it ambient warm >10°C and if it realy starts freezing i let them run boinc to fill up the cpu cores when they are "idling".

  • @ATestamentToTech
    @ATestamentToTech 4 года назад

    My old rig is a 2600k @4.5 and 2 980ti's in sli with the whole system on a custom loop and man does that pc heat my home!

  • @zolaire
    @zolaire 4 года назад +32

    "Thats hot!" -Proceeds to touch it again-

  • @FaceFirst
    @FaceFirst 6 лет назад +14

    6:36 ... I got a little Heart attack lol

    • @gsedej_MB
      @gsedej_MB 6 лет назад

      regards, linux user.

  • @MikeFuryTech
    @MikeFuryTech 4 года назад

    I worked for a time (decades ago) at a data center in Mahwah, NJ. The building didn't have heat. The computers were the heat source. (Which sucked if you worked the night shift when most of them were powered down)

  • @alphamineron
    @alphamineron 4 года назад +13

    *Me:* Look, I'm not paying 2000 dollars for a broken space heater.
    *Shop Owner:* That's a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X paired with EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super running on Crucial 2x8GB Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600 RAM and Corsair MP600 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD!!!!!
    *Me:* Well does it heat the room?
    *Shop Owner:* Fu*k No!
    *Me:* Then it's a broken space heater!