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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by FerretFred on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:47AM (#20105612)
Yes, and it can be a double-edged sword. My home office isn't heated (long story), so if I want some cheap heat in winter I'll fire up the old server and just batch convert some video. That's a pretty efficient room heater for 300 watts of power! Conversely I never convert video in summer...
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by rutierut on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:57AM (#20105707)
It's funny how there is nothing really wrong with this. Maybe you could put it to work doing some valuable tasks, like protein folding etc? That'd be really cool!
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by MrMember on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:49PM (#20106342)
In the winter I let my PC search for Mersenne Primes when I'm not using it.
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by vostrocity on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:34PM (#20106937)
I remember seeing a few years ago a startup that made a panel heater that was really a computer that would mine Bitcoin or something.
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by ZeroFries on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:25PM (#20110745)
Do you know how it would compare to something like a space-heater in terms of something like $ per degree heated per cubic meter?
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by dboreham on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:08PM (#20110934)
Um, exactly the same? (By thermodynamics)
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