Is Your PC Actually A Space Heater?
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- For quite some time I have wondered just how much the heat from a PC can affect the air temperature in a room. So I gave it a shot. Is your PC actually a space heater? Watch and find out :)
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0:00 No, a PC is not a space heater...
0:05 ...But what is a space heater?
0:20 What is a computer?
0:50 History of the space heater
2:05 The test procedure
2:56 Test results
3:40 It heats but can it beat a 'real' space heater?
4:48 Test number two
5:14 Human energy as heat
6:00 Test two procedure
6:36 Test results
7:17 Power = Heat
7:55 How to reduce PC heat output
9:06 Conclusion
9:24 Bloopers
Music: Downfall by Chris Doerksen
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0:21 I swear it wasn't a fart😳
winter is a great excuse to overclock your hardware ;)
My PC makes my room hot as hell when I play games... my computer is definitely a space heater.
Well, guess what? Any electrical device that doesnt have a 100% ECE is a space heater at some degree. And you can calculate quite easy how much energy your computer radiates as heat.
@@angeltensey mine radiates heat quite well in my 13 x 15 room at a height of i believe 8 feet with a room temperature of 68 degree my room will average a temperature increase usually of 4 degrees increase every hour and stops when my room reaches 80 degrees
@@TheWorldWarrior oh boi...the imperial units.
@@angeltensey are you not capable of understanding both units? also my efficiency of the heat transfer typically starting at a temperature of 70 is around 0.011 degrees per watt for an hour with the cubic volume of the room being 1560 cubic ft. last night my room got up to 80 degrees outside my room the house was 71 degrees
@@TheWorldWarrior lets just say that the rest of the world doesnt bother learning the inferior measurement system. back to the subject: my pc is around 600W worth of power and it can heat up my room fairly quickly at 50%+ load.
This is one of the most interesting channels I follow, I like these videos so much. Focusing on the little things
Really good video! I'm still all about the sweet jumps.
I really foockin love your content. Please keep it up!!!
the PC may not be as much of a space heater when it's idle, but put it to work and it can put out the heat for sure.
especially when you put power hungry cpus and gpus in them.
I suggest you make more videos bro. Your content is straight forward is very nice to watch. So informative
Thanks, I am trying to build a different channel right now but once it hits 1000 subs ill be posting more here again.
@@TechIlliterate May I ask what is the second channel? I just discovered you 3 Horus ago and everything is really good! I am craving for more!
@@kyoyeou5899"Nic Laporte" it's quite different though. It's going to be about micromobility and PEVs. Only posted a few videos.
Thanks for the kind words :)
this is the video that made me sub; asking - and answering - the real questions here
I'm using my computer to heat this room right now. Whenever I get cold I run a GPU benchmark and a CPU stress test at the same time lol
you should run Folding@Home, use that power on something useful
@@Ragingwasabi9000 best of all you can let it just work and leave it alone
@@Ragingwasabi9000 Folding WHAT at home? If mine could fold laundry, that would be fantastic.
@@atlantic_love not laundry, but u can fold proteins and help cure cancer
@atlantic_love folding@home is basically like running a crypto miner except you are actually running real calculations and offering your processing power towards science and research.
My computer is definitely a space heater as well. Not only does it substatially heat my home office / gaming room, but i have disabled my central heating in that room and the computer keeps it warm enough in the winter alone.
And when ever i do get a bit chilly i just boot up a performance intensive game.
My neighbour who resides in his garage most of the time has 3 towers running 24/7 365, and he has never used any other source of heating. On the coldest of winter days -20, his place is so toasty, he has to open the door.
Personally I’ve used furmark on my graphics card to dry plants, mushrooms and berries. It works like a charm!
I have my undervolted 3080ti pc "nr200 space heater" ducting its heat out the window using a vent tube and a window vent. While effective, there's still the small radiating heat from the side glass panel. Can't wait for winter time for when I can run the card at stock or give it a little oc.
Finally, a channel recommended that isn't trying to get me to buy something! Subbed.
This is why I intend to install a mini split AC unit in my new office. My current computer room gets unbearably hot in the summer.
Yeah i bought an AC just because the heat of my pc in summer was too much
When I was living in Utah I didn't have access to a space heater and I was able to heat my building with a laptop running some heavy games... it was actually two laptops but still it was a pretty large space and it kept me from freezing
Holy shit... You survived
@@ReXoRofc yep It was midwinter and an old laptop kept me alive kept it about 50° - 60° f I believe in there so not warm but definitely not freezing
Remember folks just because something isn't designed specifically for that job. If it's able to do that job then it is essentially the same as the intended device. For example semis aren't designed to transport people but they can be used for that (ask your local human trafficker just how effective that is).
One time i was able to start heavily sweating and I overheated my phone when only texting on Snap when overclocking my CPU and GPU
Really interesting video thanks for your effort!
It´s currently a bit cold in Germany so I´m using my PC (RTX 3090) as a heater in my room happy gamimg :D
Its like you've never used a PC. I live in Canada and keep my office window open when its -10c outside and the room stays an even 21. I only close the window when I'm baking cookies open on a pan in the room.
lmao!
interesting moustachde desing. LIKE
So you do, do videos on other topics beside thermal paste. As a mechanical engineer I knew it's a space heater simply because it generates heat. A Watt is a Watt or is it? 1 Watt is 1 Joule per second or 1 Newton-meter per second. Now I'm off to look at more of your thermal paste videos that I haven't seen let🙃
Good video. I have Ryzen 5900x, nvidia 1060 and 38" screen. There are some other parts like motherboard, bequite! 550w psu, 2x4tb hdd, fans possibly adding few watts each. At idle I'm at 135-150 W. Gaming (GPU load with some CPU load) can bring it to 280-320 W, less if not full screen. Heavy CPU load itself (c++ compiler) can be around 270 W. Even some light single core load can be 150-200w. Maximum I've seen trying CPU+GPU stress test was 430W. I think CPU is limited to 145W and gpu to 120W or 150W. Maybe PC itself can consome roughly 90w idle, which is the same as AthlonXP 1700, but that one consumed 140W under stress test. Core2duo was like 65W idle and i never measured i5-4590 which was likely the most efficient PC I had since Pentium120Mhz.
Having some home office, playing some games and using PC up to 15 hours, power consumption is 30-60kWh per month (according to UPS). But ... remember in 80s we had 2x120W light bulb and CRT TV in living room and if I recall our ancient black&white TV had tubes in it. Now I mostly use computer as TV, radio and table lamp consumes 7W replacing 60W light bulb.
mines been keeping the icy weather outside at bay when gaming. normal use it's not very hot, but an hour of gaming will heat my room
winter is a great excuse to overclock your hardware ;)
Hi, MX6 is calling you 😉
Could you update the electricity video with our new prices nowadays?
I probably should. Even our cheap electricity here has gone up a bit.
Ohh yes it does, LMFAO you should see my room at summer along with pc playing on 4k FUCKING HELL
in my room the radiator isnt working, and i dont need to fix it because my pc keeps my room warm xD
but my room is really smal so it wouldnt work as great in a big room
it will do as its told
running Folding@Home on ur pc is a great way of heating up ur room while also helping scientists cure cancer!
I keep a small fan in my room.
Technically, your PC is a space heater, if you just leave it running in the background, without actually using it with your monitor off. I used to warm my room all winter long by just never turning off my pc in the winter. I also used it as an alarm clock, and a radio, as it wasn't intended for. I set timers that went off daily, to wake me up for school, and I even listened to radio stations or RUclips for music, so I didn't use my computer correctly. It is a heater if you're not actively using it.
0:17, yes.. but it does...
energy can not be created nor destoyed means all the power of the supply will be used eventualy
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Also important to remember that heat/cold needs to travel (by air, water, etc) to more efficiently heat/cool anything. In other words, if you have lots of fans quickly exhausting the heat from your case, it'll heat even more than a PC with less fans.
False. It will just release the heat faster. The generated heat will always come out of the case eventually. Additionally if there is extra heat in the system, it will be running less efficiently. Proper cooling is always the best option.
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 false, you're wrong. See how easy it is? In my experience I'm right, so your opinion is irrelevant 🥰
@@baska- 😁 first and second laws of thermodynamics state otherwise. 1) energy is not created or destroyed, it just change form and 2) entropy of the universe increses (in this case heat transfers from warm to colder).
So ur telling me that a 400w rtx 4080 is not a heater? or a 1000w PC not a heater?
I am saying that computers are heaters and that they have become more of a heater in recent years.
you wouldnt survive if you used amd gpu, thing turns air into shara desert within seconds
man had amd gpu before it burned its gddr ram for good, amd is flamethrower
my pc is soo cold and I'm freezing to death
It’s cold better fire up some cities skylines 2
Hey bro where did you go?
youtube.com/@niclaporte
I'll be back once i get over 1k subs on the other channel. Thanks for reeling me in :)
@@TechIlliterate That's good news. I just subscribed after watching a few of your PC thermals tests. Great content and I might as well check out the scooter stuff on the other channel too lol.