GC like 8800 and 2900 generate tons of heat ...

issit possible to convert them to cooking or boiling ?

Yes you can put frying pan on it. But have to put cpu vertically. Mom also happy.

This post has been edited by jcheong: Oct 27 2007, 11:36 AM

You could use thermocoupling to reclaim the energy like how RTGs do.

frying bacon/eggs will be a great idea.

yeah aso a heat pump during cold nites

i used my side-panel fan to suck the hot air out directly from my GC parts, to unfreeze food, sometimes ice-cream(when ice-cream too cold, the paper wrap around it r hard to take out, some times stick at there), unfreeze hot dog, or sometimes room too cold then let ur GC run benchmark or torture test, let it generate ton of heat...

Hahaha.. you know... there ARE cheaper and more effective ways to unfreeze your hot dogs rather than drawing another hundred watts running 3dmark to do it.

ya u may , let the hot air flow through some heat receiver or heat generator then convert back to electrical energy. save ur $$

and it has a lot of dust too

Try using it for bbq,suitable for home party...lol..

just wonder, gc chips improved a lot nowdays and the die size also decreased a lot. but still using higher wattage and stress PSU a lot. this is different for proc where processing size decreased a long with power usage...

err...last 2 years ago, i read the newspaper got 1 article showing that the processor (without HSF) is frying an egg....

I don't think it is feasible now. Wait for next generation computer parts that generates more heat i.e. not only heatsinks that are needed on GC and CPU AND mobo, but also on harddisk and sound card and DVD-ROM. At that time, you'll probably have enough heat to heat up the whole house...... that is if you're not in the tropics....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Oct 27 2007, 06:08 PM

if u are freeze to death in antartika or everest
do bring ur cpu n oc it to heat ur self+gaming
oso
can do the world record
gaming at the coolest place in the world
i think our gah ment will support u to do the insane things
haha

also known as the reverse of Peltier technology... use heat and cold to generate electricity... same principle that long distance some satelites/probes used to generate electricity using nuclear radiation and coldness of space...

large amount of business/corporate servers are located at greenland and other nothern countries for the cold.. conserve energy... but they have not used to generate energy..

Countries like Malaysia can boast solar power generation .. if the gov establish it...

p.s. any record if game on the former highest peak in South East Asia.. G. Kinabalu... use WiMax tech to connect to the internet..

This post has been edited by BeastX: Oct 27 2007, 06:38 PM

lol you must be joking me +_+

I was thinking of using the heat to regenerate power for the rig but then i realized that it may not be viable in a mid-tower.


Wastes even more power if you ask me.

Yeah....but for all practical reasons, it is worthwhile? Especially true if you lug that thing around to LAN Parties.


We all know Al Gore means well but we have to be realistic too.

They dry my shoes pretty well.


(2900XT overclocked + 70% fan. )

well....computer components are getting less efficient due to the wasted energy, ie. heat being produced and released into atmo

well...if u wana use the comp as heater or defrozer, then, that's inefficient too! u wasted the energy to crunch ur graphics card to do 3dmarking that u dont need at all...a 500W heater produces way more heat and inefficient than ur 500W comp running at full cap

how bout without any fan
put directly to ur shoes?

heat = eletricity bill very mahal... but how hot is that gc? 100 c?