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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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. 😂

I'm definitely gonna have to wait until next winter. It's foolishness to be running the GPU that hard when it's 100⁰F+ outside!

[–] BastingChemina 3 points 5 months ago

In a few French cities they use the heat from data centers to heat up public pools

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.