My house uses old electric baseboard heaters. And my PC is, in pure thermodynamic terms, an electric heater.
On the right days where it’s a little cold, I’ll close my office door and get it juuuuuuust right.
Most of the other days it’s just too hot or too cold. I wonder if there’s some way to perfectly monitor and optimize this system for maximum comfort and/or electricity usage.
PermanentThrowaway33
such an original post
Fplayz234
I can make my cooking whilst playing freeplay Bloons TD.
Ghostbuster_11Nein
My PS5 or Steam deck when I start playing helldivers.
NCC_1701E
For me it’s Cyberpunk 2077. My PC sounds like it’s being abused every time I launch that game.
EiffelPower76
Well, it’s more the graphics card than the game that heats the room
No_Tamanegi
In the winter months my cat likes to snuggle up in my lap behind my laptop exhaust vents. Sometimes I’ll fire up a blender render in the background just to keep her extra toasty.
Ponczo123
It would be a great advice… If you didn’t post that in the begging of summer
Durahl
Uh-huh… Great feature during Winter, not so much in the Summer 😑💢
DriftMantis
I just use software to keep my laptop gpu dynamically power limited to keep it under 75 degrees or even 70 if I want and then also keep the cpu under 88 degrees. That seems to help with thermals. I dont really struggle with thermals in modern machines. But I guess if it gets too cold, I can unleash the power and turn that into a solid leg heater/ portable radiator for sure.
MugiwaraTheGreaT
😅😂😅😂🤣🤣😅😂😅😂🤣😂🤣😅
Bwhitt1
Honestly, just about any game will warm a room up pretty well. Even cpus and gpus running at 60c is pushing 100-degree heat right out into the room, lol. I can tell you as someone who lives in Southern Florida that is a terrible terrible problem lol.
moxyte
PROTIP: check GPU options for a FPS limiter. I was baffled why some older titles made my desktop heat up so much, reason being they were running uncapped at super high FPS. Set limit to 144, problem gone.
JaceKagamine
You want heat? Run heavily modded ark in max setting, get the marshmallows while you’re at it
threebillion6
A good session of Helldiver’s does this. But also PoE2. I turned a lot of my graphics down though. There’s just too much on screen for that game.
Somasonic
I find my 5080 doesn’t heat the room quite like my 3080 ti did, which is a shame because we just started winter here 🥶
When living at student accommodations this is what I would do when arriving after new years or winter break. I’d start a game on the pc, walk to the store to buy essentials and then when I got home my room was heated 😁
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My house uses old electric baseboard heaters. And my PC is, in pure thermodynamic terms, an electric heater.
On the right days where it’s a little cold, I’ll close my office door and get it juuuuuuust right.
Most of the other days it’s just too hot or too cold. I wonder if there’s some way to perfectly monitor and optimize this system for maximum comfort and/or electricity usage.
such an original post
I can make my cooking whilst playing freeplay Bloons TD.
My PS5 or Steam deck when I start playing helldivers.
For me it’s Cyberpunk 2077. My PC sounds like it’s being abused every time I launch that game.
Well, it’s more the graphics card than the game that heats the room
In the winter months my cat likes to snuggle up in my lap behind my laptop exhaust vents. Sometimes I’ll fire up a blender render in the background just to keep her extra toasty.
It would be a great advice… If you didn’t post that in the begging of summer
Uh-huh… Great feature during Winter, not so much in the Summer 😑💢
I just use software to keep my laptop gpu dynamically power limited to keep it under 75 degrees or even 70 if I want and then also keep the cpu under 88 degrees. That seems to help with thermals. I dont really struggle with thermals in modern machines. But I guess if it gets too cold, I can unleash the power and turn that into a solid leg heater/ portable radiator for sure.
😅😂😅😂🤣🤣😅😂😅😂🤣😂🤣😅
Honestly, just about any game will warm a room up pretty well. Even cpus and gpus running at 60c is pushing 100-degree heat right out into the room, lol. I can tell you as someone who lives in Southern Florida that is a terrible terrible problem lol.
PROTIP: check GPU options for a FPS limiter. I was baffled why some older titles made my desktop heat up so much, reason being they were running uncapped at super high FPS. Set limit to 144, problem gone.
You want heat? Run heavily modded ark in max setting, get the marshmallows while you’re at it
A good session of Helldiver’s does this. But also PoE2. I turned a lot of my graphics down though. There’s just too much on screen for that game.
I find my 5080 doesn’t heat the room quite like my 3080 ti did, which is a shame because we just started winter here 🥶
2077
Ah yes, the good old [spacebar heating](https://xkcd.com/1172/)
When living at student accommodations this is what I would do when arriving after new years or winter break. I’d start a game on the pc, walk to the store to buy essentials and then when I got home my room was heated 😁