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Re:Why are underground parking garages hot? by mtdewcmu on Saturday July 06, 2013 @07:17AM (#5998581)
I think the PC as heater question is easy to solve. Just add up all the watts and assume that it all becomes heat. A cpu and graphics card can easily be over 100 watts each, and a 100 watt light bulb gets pretty hot. (I had this conversation with another computer guy at one time, and he didn't think all of the watts became heat. I'm not an engineer or physicist, but -- where else could it go?)
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Re:Why are underground parking garages hot? by YokoZar on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:14AM (#5998787)
You're right that it basically will all go to heat. The only real exception is if light from the display goes out the window, or if sound from the speakers escapes the room.
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Re:Why are underground parking garages hot? by mistercow on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:48AM (#5998985)
Some of the heat will also radiate out the window as infrared.
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