Use F@H as a home heating system ?

[owenr930]

I took a look at Nvidia-smi and I think that will be the best route. There is a command that lets you manage the card's speed through power consumption. It says that smi is included in the drivers. Do I enter smi commands into the command prompt?

[Crazy-Logic]

You can pause and restart using "FAHClient --send-pause" and "FAHClient --send-unpause" - you can automate this from within bash or whatnot, also --send-finish and have a look at "FAHClient --help" for all the options....

[MeeLee]

If you do liquid cooling, you can use the water for warm water for the shower, etc..

[HaloJones]

If you do liquid cooling, you can use the water for warm water for the shower, etc..

You're joking right? I can't tell any more.

[MeeLee]

If you do liquid cooling, you can use the water for warm water for the shower, etc..

You're joking right? I can't tell any more.

If you daisy chain enough watercooled GPUs, you can use the hot side to feed a hot water radiator.

[gunnarre]

Pre-heating cold water for a hot water heater is better done with a drain water reclaimer. Your PC is just not powerful enough to make the effort worth it. Water cooling is a hobby you do for fun, not really for the home economics. The recent GPUs are so highly clocked already that water cooling them doesn't really unlock much extra performance. In fact, a slight reduction in the power target will make them more efficient.

As for regulating folding power, I would prefer writing a script that runs on the folding PC and just uses a cheap USB thermometer as the input: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... inux&num=1

[HaloJones]

If you do liquid cooling, you can use the water for warm water for the shower, etc..

You're joking right? I can't tell any more.

If you daisy chain enough watercooled GPUs, you can use the hot side to feed a hot water radiator.

It already has a hot water radiator - that's what watercooling uses to cool the water. As for a shower in your original message, you'd need 20 RTX3090 to get to a low-power electric shower's heating element.

[bruce]

Heating is directly related to Watts. If you recapture that heat by draining that heat into a small room, that's a saving, but the typical computer can only raise the temperature a little. Remember that the typical electric heater uses 500 or 1000 watts or 1500 watts if you expect it to really warm the room.

[MeeLee]

It already has a hot water radiator - that's what watercooling uses to cool the water. As for a shower in your original message, you'd need 20 RTX3090 to get to a low-power electric shower's heating element.

Shower was a joke.
Most water heaters use 3,5-7kW for one showerhead.