12 cards kept my entire house 74F while it was 30-40F.
I recently moved my mining rigs to a commercial location and am so sad to be back in my 60-68F cold ass house.
Topic: Winter is coming. (Read 1711 times)
last years I used gas to heat my apartment, this year some GPU @ ~ 1500-2000w
will see how cold it can get until I need to get more GPU
will see how cold it can get until I need to get more GPU
I use similar power and my apartment is very warm.
last years I used gas to heat my apartment, this year some GPU @ ~ 1500-2000w
will see how cold it can get until I need to get more GPU
will see how cold it can get until I need to get more GPU
My favorite time of year. My most profitable season, and most comfortable
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
The question is to vague to give a Real answer. But if you have many GPU or a small house that would be a very good way not to waste energy and save some money.
I have 12 GPU in a room which is around 25mq big and it has a temperature that is 10 celius degrees greater than other rooms.
Winter is a good buy for miners to dig a coin. Low temperatures will make the excavator work more efficiently, consuming less power. So it will be more profitable for investors.
Absolutely use the heat to help supplement the home heating if you already have rigs. Why on earth would anybody vent the heat to the outside during the winter? If your rigs are in a room by themselves, just open the door and put a box fan to blow the warm air out. But remember warm air rises and cold air sinks, so its best to elevate the fan off of the ground to allow for better cold air flow into the mining room. If you can get the fan near the top of the doorway, that would be the perfect scenario.
Mine are in the old theater room turned mining room that is in the basement, I close off all ducts in the basement and let the rigs heat the basement and most of the time its still too warm for me and have a window cracked. This year I'm thinking about installing ducting from the mining room into the furnace ducting to help circulate the warm air. The furnace is right on the other side of the wall from the mining room so it shouldn't be too hard. 1 duct near the top of the wall for the hot air and another at the bottom for the cold air return. I'm thinking out loud now: split the cold air return from the house and run it to the bottom vent in the mining room, install damper to shut house cold air off after the split. Vent at top of room goes back into the house cold air that is the inlet (suction) for the furnace blower.
Something like:
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| | Cold air return from house
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[ ]___
[ ___ "T" cold air into mining room vent at floor level
[ ]
{\} Damper closed
[ ]___
[ ___ "T" Hot air from mining room vent at ceiling level
[ ]
| |
| |
To Furnace
Mine are in the old theater room turned mining room that is in the basement, I close off all ducts in the basement and let the rigs heat the basement and most of the time its still too warm for me and have a window cracked. This year I'm thinking about installing ducting from the mining room into the furnace ducting to help circulate the warm air. The furnace is right on the other side of the wall from the mining room so it shouldn't be too hard. 1 duct near the top of the wall for the hot air and another at the bottom for the cold air return. I'm thinking out loud now: split the cold air return from the house and run it to the bottom vent in the mining room, install damper to shut house cold air off after the split. Vent at top of room goes back into the house cold air that is the inlet (suction) for the furnace blower.
Something like:
| |
| | Cold air return from house
| |
[ ]___
[ ___ "T" cold air into mining room vent at floor level
[ ]
{\} Damper closed
[ ]___
[ ___ "T" Hot air from mining room vent at ceiling level
[ ]
| |
| |
To Furnace
Depends on the algo.
Mining ZEC will give a LOT of heat, while for example lyra2z wont give almost any heat.
I actually think ASICs would give more heat than GPUs.
Mining ZEC will give a LOT of heat, while for example lyra2z wont give almost any heat.
I actually think ASICs would give more heat than GPUs.
Hello) I live in Novosibirsk, Russia! Now we have a cold night. In the afternoon + 5 ° C, and at night -2. My mines with a total capacity of 1,700 watts. stand on a glassed-in balcony. The temperature is now +30 ° C on the balcony, and on the street now + 1 ° C degrees Celsius. Waiting for the winter to see how they warm up the balcony (2 square meters)
I wish i live in this place. In my place 34 ° C in the air ><Correction: You wouldn't like live here.
You'd like place mining farms here. Winter of 8 month per year is objective reality in Siberia.To @Sergey-Majner: How you organize the ventilation of the balcony during summer? It's short but it's quite hot. If you have 30C in balcony at even 5C outdoor temperature?
We've just come out of winter here in Australia, I've been heating my whole house with 4 rigs, we haven't put the heater on once 
It was really nice waking up/coming home to a toasty house!
Summer will be interesting, with a very hot summer predicted!
Cheers,
Matt
It was really nice waking up/coming home to a toasty house!
Summer will be interesting, with a very hot summer predicted!
Cheers,
Matt
I had three Baikal 2000's in the garden house/shed (isolated shed). 35 degrees in the morning xD
I could be only a joke Oo
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
wtf is wrong with you ? mining rigs make more money than they spend on electricity, so basically you get paid to live in a warm house. Well, "heaters" themselves are bit pricey but if you can afford it then go for it.
I have 3 rigs in the house (~140m2) and that's perfect for winter.
basically you get paid to live in a warm house.. nice one!
I have 2 rigs in my room and I've been suffocating all summer, now I might have to open a window during winter so yeah you can heat a room with gpus but I'm not sure about an entire house tough.
I could be only a joke Oo
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
wtf is wrong with you ? mining rigs make more money than they spend on electricity, so basically you get paid to live in a warm house. Well, "heaters" themselves are bit pricey but if you can afford it then go for it.
I have 3 rigs in the house (~140m2) and that's perfect for winter.
I could be only a joke Oo
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
have you tought about the pice for the power.
You can take an electronic heater it would be less excpensive
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
I have a friend that has 2kW of rigs in his house, and by his comments I understood that without a good forced airflow to keep the rigs far away from the bedrooms they simply dry too much the air.
Dry air? Is that harmful?
Why would the air dry from that little heat generated by computer components anyway?
To combat too dry of air, they do sell things call humidifiers which can be bought in sizes ranging from humidifying a single room to a whole house. Dry air will result from any heat source that doesn't provide some type of moisture, so mining rigs are no different in that regard. Also, on most furnaces you can run the fan alone without the heat being on, so you can take advantage of this feature to circulate the warm air throughout your house.
Thanks, I will check that out. I remember in the past there were (or maybe they still sell) some kind of boxes filled with water that you had to attach to radiators. Later I read that those things were no good because of mold forming. What do you think?
Most modern humidifiers have a replaceable filter you swap out each season to prevent anything like that. They also sell additives you can add to the humidifier water to prevent mold if that is an issue in your region. Usually Winter air is pretty dry so mold isn't a big concern, but I suppose if people didn't do regular maintenance on something, like periodically clean the water basin, anything is possible.
Time to OC +10% 
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
I am doing this in my room only which is not a big surface. I have a PC with 3 GTX , 2x1060 and 1x1050ti and I never have the need to turn on the air condition although the outside temperature here in Italy has even been sometimes at 8 degree celsius which is considered cold enough for me to turn on the air condition. So yes I am saving heating power by warming my room with these 3 cards, at night I even keep my window just a tiny bit open in order to have fresh air come in as the air from 3 GPU-s may not be the healthiest air.
Hello) I live in Novosibirsk, Russia! Now we have a cold night. In the afternoon + 5 ° C, and at night -2. My mines with a total capacity of 1,700 watts. stand on a glassed-in balcony. The temperature is now +30 ° C on the balcony, and on the street now + 1 ° C degrees Celsius. Waiting for the winter to see how they warm up the balcony (2 square meters)
I wish i live in this place. In my place 34 ° C in the air ><Guess what? it's 35 ° C on my place and I ain't never experience winter or just the snow itself. Too bad also, because of the weather and the price of the electricity it's impossible for me to have a profit in mining.
@Sergey, that's too much generated heat lol, it's feels like you summoned an artificial sun located just on your balcony.
The low temperature will give you a free miner cooling but you have to look after for the humidity in the air. It could harm your miner if it's too high.
Really? Is there some recorded cases of miner getting rekt by the humidity? I'm curious to know if there is.
The low temperature will give you a free miner cooling but you have to look after for the humidity in the air. It could harm your miner if it's too high.
Hello) I live in Novosibirsk, Russia! Now we have a cold night. In the afternoon + 5 ° C, and at night -2. My mines with a total capacity of 1,700 watts. stand on a glassed-in balcony. The temperature is now +30 ° C on the balcony, and on the street now + 1 ° C degrees Celsius. Waiting for the winter to see how they warm up the balcony (2 square meters)
I wish i live in this place. In my place 34 ° C in the air >< Jump to: