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Ask HN: Uses for Idle Gaming PC?
Last year I had built a pretty beefy gaming PC to use for game development and playing games.
Fast-forward to today and I'm not developing or playing games that much at all, so this PC sits idle most of the time.
What are some things I can have this PC do in the interim? I don't pay electricity and extra heat would be beneficial during Canadian winter anyway. Right now it serves as a Storj node and Folding@Home machine, with some crypto mining in the past which I've stopped due to pitiful returns.
- benologist 10y agoBeefy gaming pc on all the time probably uses as much electricity as a major household appliance and it sounds like you're out of reasons to run it 24/7. Even if you're not paying the bill the environment probably is so I'd just turn it off. If you need minor or modest 24/7 computing there's a lot of awesome new Kaby Lake chips just released with very low power consumption.
- tlack 10y agoFast gaming GPUs are great for exploring machine learning if you have any interest in that subject
- dandelion_lover 10y agoYou could run i2p [0], YaCy search engine [1], and/or tor relay [2] there. [0] https://geti2p.net/en/ https://geti2p.net/en/ [1] http://yacy.net/en/index.html http://yacy.net/en/index.html [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en Edit: All free software, all help the community.