5 ms·

What about Folding@Home or other high energy computing tasks. If you have your PS4, XBOX, home desktop, SO's laptop, etc running high intensity tasks how much

What about Folding@Home or other high energy computing tasks. If you have your PS4, XBOX, home desktop, SO's laptop, etc running high intensity tasks how much energy would that be?

Synaesthesia 10y ago
The biggest power consumer is things like Geysers, kettles, stoves and so on. A desktop running at 100% uses like 200W whereas a geyser uses like 2kw.
- acover 10y ago
  The biggest power consumer is electric heat/ac. http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential/yourbilloverview/Pages/ApplianceChart.aspx http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential...
- ClassyJacket 10y ago
  My high end gaming PC would push over 500W when mining Bitcoin (actually Lite coin) back in the day. Side note: Swype keyboard will not allow me to write Litecoin as one word with a bracket after it, no matter how much I correct it.
  - infogulch 10y ago
    When autocorrect refuses to cooperate I find that spacing things out between normal words then deleting the spacers usually works. Correction usually only occurs after typing punctuation, not for deletion. Litecoin and [] Litecoin []
    - ClassyJacket 10y ago
      Yeah, that seems to be the only way to do it. (Litecoin)... Strange, it's changed its policy now.
  - patrickk 10y ago
    I mined Ethereum last summer on a 6 GPU, dual-PSU rig. Each GPU consumed roughly 220W-250W IIRC, so the heat and noise was considerable.
    - astrodust 10y ago
      That's one panel worth of power, theoretically.
    - ClassyJacket 10y ago
      The heat from that would be horrendous. A typical space heater consumes about the same as that. Even at just 500W my machine would heat the room considerably over a few hours.
- dm3730 10y ago
  > Geysers For those wondering, that term means hot water heater.
  - coldpie 10y ago
    If your hot water heater resembles a geyser, you need to call a plumber ASAP.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    Electric hot water heater. For those with too much money in their bank account.
- Someone 10y ago
  2kW when the faucet is running, about zero when it isn't. With a duty cycle of 1% (= running hot water for 15 minutes a day), that desktop could beat your geyser, even when running at 10% throughout the day.

What about Folding@Home or other high energy computing tasks. If you have your PS4, XBOX, home desktop, SO's laptop, etc running high intensity tasks how much energy would that be?

Synaesthesia 10y ago

The biggest power consumer is things like Geysers, kettles, stoves and so on. A desktop running at 100% uses like 200W whereas a geyser uses like 2kw.

acover 10y ago
The biggest power consumer is electric heat/ac. http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential/yourbilloverview/Pages/ApplianceChart.aspx http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential...
ClassyJacket 10y ago
My high end gaming PC would push over 500W when mining Bitcoin (actually Lite coin) back in the day. Side note: Swype keyboard will not allow me to write Litecoin as one word with a bracket after it, no matter how much I correct it.
- infogulch 10y ago
  When autocorrect refuses to cooperate I find that spacing things out between normal words then deleting the spacers usually works. Correction usually only occurs after typing punctuation, not for deletion. Litecoin and [] Litecoin []
  - ClassyJacket 10y ago
    Yeah, that seems to be the only way to do it. (Litecoin)... Strange, it's changed its policy now.
- patrickk 10y ago
  I mined Ethereum last summer on a 6 GPU, dual-PSU rig. Each GPU consumed roughly 220W-250W IIRC, so the heat and noise was considerable.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    That's one panel worth of power, theoretically.
  - ClassyJacket 10y ago
    The heat from that would be horrendous. A typical space heater consumes about the same as that. Even at just 500W my machine would heat the room considerably over a few hours.
dm3730 10y ago
> Geysers For those wondering, that term means hot water heater.
- coldpie 10y ago
  If your hot water heater resembles a geyser, you need to call a plumber ASAP.
- astrodust 10y ago
  Electric hot water heater. For those with too much money in their bank account.
Someone 10y ago
2kW when the faucet is running, about zero when it isn't. With a duty cycle of 1% (= running hot water for 15 minutes a day), that desktop could beat your geyser, even when running at 10% throughout the day.