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Re: Heating a house with old GPU's, worth it?
by
DeathAndTaxes
on 30/10/2013, 02:12:32 UTC
To calculate how much heat every 6990 in the setup will produce, you have to consider how much energy the computers containing them will draw from the wall. PSUs aren't 100% efficient, and all the "lost" energy gets converted into heat as well.

Calculating 65 W power consumption outside the video cards, we get a total of 1565 W for a computer holding four 6990s. If the PSU operates at 85% efficiency, the whole setup will draw approximately 1840 W from the wall, giving 460 W per video card.

It is far simpler.  Computer components (including GPUs) do no "work" in the physics sense.  So 100% of energy drawn from the wall will be converted to heat.

If you want a 3KW heat just build a rig (or rigs) which have a 3KW load.  No other calculations are required.  It doesn't matter where the heat come from (CPU idling, GPU core, VRMs, power supply ineffciency) it is all heat.

3KW electricity In = 3KW thermal energy ("heat") out.