Raise your hand if a gaming PC is warming up your home

A few weeks ago, our oven (technically a heat pump without ducts) stopped working at the worst time of the year. But at least one room remains pleasant and warm all winter – thanks to my gaming PC.

Now, Wall Street Newspaper is reporting that this may actually be a trend: some bitcoin players and miners are heating their rooms, growing tomatoes and even heating a chicken coop during the pandemic.

It made me think: how many Border are readers doing the same?

I keep my PC running all night, folding proteins to help study COVID-19, which I strongly recommend. (I just passed 175 million points this week.) But I have to admit that the room hasn’t been so hot since I changed my own GeForce GTX 1080 back. The impossible-to-find AMD Radeon RX 6800 definitely put more heat in, and we actually had to open a window when I had an Nvidia RTX 3080 folding those proteins. I can’t speak for all models, but Founder’s Edition works hot.

I hope Mitsubishi will deliver a new control panel for my heat pump soon.