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Minor suggestion: Do it in winter. Transcoding video like that is a CPU intensive workload, if you're going to pump that much heat out of your PC case you might as well want it.
That's an excellent point. It's amazing how fast it'll heat up a room!
I just learned there's a company that takes advantage of this by using render farm nodes to provide hot water or something?
https://www.heata.co/render
Genius idea. Render farm as space heater. Don't see why compiling / transcoding would be any different. ๐
I'm definitely gonna have to wait until next winter. It's foolishness to be running the GPU that hard when it's 100โฐF+ outside!
In a few French cities they use the heat from data centers to heat up public pools
Not so sure the difference ripping a disk would make unless you have a super insulated room, but CPU heat is very much a consideration. Each summer I keep contemplating moving my rack with ~100 cores to the basement only to be dissuaded by the dampness and cable runs.
A lot of things made it a Winter project for me: wanting to assist my furnace rather than fight my air conditioner in the Carolina heat was one thing, also my work slows down a lot in winter, not as many projects to do, so I had plenty of time to mess with it over winter. Plus, in summer I keep my house at 74, in winter I keep it at 70, It's amazing how much that makes a difference in CPU temperatures.