French company uses AMD CPUs to heat homes. Order yours now!

[GoodBytes]

A French company, Qarnot, that specializes itself in making computer cloud servers that connects to a home HVAC system to use the generate heat from the computer to help heat homes. They decided to switch from Intel CPUs to AMD CPUs  for their latest offerings to help heat 1500 homes, as AMD Ryzen CPUs are more powerful for the company target tasks than Intel.

 

The company says:

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Ryzen Pro is producing the same heat as the equivalent Intel CPUs we were using while providing twice as many cores. In terms of performance and features, the Ryzen PRO is a fantastic opportunity for Qarnot. In our testing, based on 3D rendering computations, we saw a performance gain of 30 to 45% compared to the Intel i7 we were previously using.

 

Source: https://mspoweruser.com/french-company-qarnot-wants-use-amd-processors-heat-homes/

 

Now, I know this isn't the most interesting news article ever, and the title sounds funny. But I wanted to bring "Servers/computers used to heat homes" in discussion. We do know that in the winter times, a computer, especially desktop, is great at heating a room. It has been found by Puget System (and I recall other sources as well): https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Gaming-PC-vs-Space-Heater-Efficiency-511/

That indeed a computer is very efficient at doing this (and can process things) compared to a space heater.

 

So why not use computers to not only game or do video rendering, cloud server, simulation, or even mining cryptocurrencies and help warm up homes in the cold days? Linus made a massive project that ended being a flop where he did a whole room water cooling, where heat was attempted to be released outside. Companies uses powerful Air Conditioning units to cool off server room where the heat is also released outside. So, why release the heat outside when you can use it to warm up a home or office space in the winter? Simple idea that helps save money. Heck, even miners tend to make a room in a shed or a dedicated hot room where they put the mining equipment to isolate them. So much energy wasted that can be re0used to help lower heating bill.

[ItsMitch]

Why don't they just use AMD GPUs to warm the house, they get hot enough

/sarc

[Max_Settings]

When you turn a meme into a real business

[IAmAndre]

4 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Linus made a massive project that ended being a flop where he did a whole room water cooling, where heat was attempted to be released outside.

Why was that a flop?

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

Why was that a flop?

Heat was dissipated within the room by the copper pipes so the effect was pretty much identical to air cooling. That's not to mention the debris which built up in the CPU blocks

[Notional]

Hasn't this been posted months ago? They also use Intel CPU's as I recall.

 

Yeah, here it is:

 

Edited January 15, 2018 by Notional
Added LTT link

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

9 minutes ago, IAmAndre said:

Why was that a flop?

Because Linus did it.

 

On the subject. Well at least AMD is good for something.

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Notional said:

Hasn't this been posted months ago? They also use Intel CPU's as I recall.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/09/13/002250/french-company-plans-to-heat-homes-offices-with-amd-ryzen-pro-processors

 

and https://www.techrepublic.com/article/q-rad-uses-servers-to-warm-homes-and-offices/

 

So yeah, somehow this wound up being "news" again.

[pyrojoe34]

9 minutes ago, IAmAndre said:

Why was that a flop?

It was a cool idea and one that IIRC a few data centers actually use (well, something pretty similar). But was such a hassle to do, terrible to maintain, expensive to set up, I imagine the quick disconnects would be an issue after extended use, and not even worth the cooling improvement. Individual PC cooling + a whole room exhaust fan would be a better solution.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Notional said:

Hasn't this been posted months ago? They also use Intel CPU's as I recall.

 

13 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

They decided to switch from Intel CPUs to AMD CPUs

you missed this part

 

this is a pretty interesting thing, not a bad idea

[Shreyas1]

17 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Linus made a massive project that ended being a flop where he did a whole room water cooling, where heat was attempted to be released outside.

Didn't Antvenom succeed in doing that?

[cj09beira]

12 minutes ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Because Linus did it.

 

On the subject. Well at least AMD is good for something.

 

 

they moved to amd because they were more power efficient, so they have better compute/w

[seon123]

I think the local university uses its supercomputer to heat the outside parking space. 

 

Edit: Computer's name is Vilje, 467Tflop, 650kW, used to heat the Gløshaugen campus. 

Edited January 15, 2018 by seon123
Something something

[SpaceGhostC2C]

18 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

 

you missed this part

 

That was part of the original news in 

 

From the original article in that thread:

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Qarnot's tests also showed “a performance gain of 30 to 45 per cent compared to the Intel i7 we were previously using.”

 

In, therefore, comes the Ryzen and out goes the i7.

 

Moreover, the article in OP cites as source the exact September article from The Register, so literally 0% is new here.

[AlTech]

41 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

snip

I swear I've read something almost identical to this quite a while back.
 

Edit: The source of the article you linked is dated September 2017 lol. Seems MSPowerUser is slow at delivering news,

[Energycore]

37 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Now, I know this isn't the most interesting news article ever, and the title sounds funny. But I wanted to bring "Servers/computers used to heat homes" in discussion. We do know that in the winter times, a computer, especially desktop, is great at heating a room. It has been found by Puget System (and I recall other sources as well): https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Gaming-PC-vs-Space-Heater-Efficiency-511/

That indeed a computer is very efficient at doing this (and can process things) compared to a space heater.

I can add my personal experience to this. I have an AMD RX 480 undervolted mining at 105W board power (GPU-Z), and it's definitely not close to enough to heat the room. Probably if you run multiple cards mining then it's gonna be different but your usual 2017-18 low-power gaming PC (like seriously, a high-end i7 + 1080 computer is only 300W) I don't think will be enough for your usual cold room in winter.

 

Not that I'm complaining about the decrease in power consumption in computers

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

I can add my personal experience to this. I have an AMD RX 480 undervolted mining at 105W board power (GPU-Z), and it's definitely not close to enough to heat the room. Probably if you run multiple cards mining then it's gonna be different but your usual 2017-18 low-power gaming PC (like seriously, a high-end i7 + 1080 computer is only 300W) I don't think will be enough for your usual cold room in winter.

 

Not that I'm complaining about the decrease in power consumption in computers

Lol. my 770 was a good space heater  and it was "only 230w" TDP 

[GoodBytes]

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[Canada EH]

The price to set that up is not worth it. Better to go another route. It is most likely a FAKE NEWS article which is all too common this day in age. Most likely a PRO INTEL spin article, and if its spin, its fake news!

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Energycore said:

I can add my personal experience to this. I have an AMD RX 480 undervolted mining at 105W board power (GPU-Z), and it's definitely not close to enough to heat the room. Probably if you run multiple cards mining then it's gonna be different but your usual 2017-18 low-power gaming PC (like seriously, a high-end i7 + 1080 computer is only 300W) I don't think will be enough for your usual cold room in winter.

 

Not that I'm complaining about the decrease in power consumption in computers

My 7950 sure is able to heat a room no problem, and it honestly does it better than my GTX 480.

[porina]

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Ryzen Pro is producing the same heat as the equivalent Intel CPUs we were using while providing twice as many cores. In terms of performance and features, the Ryzen PRO is a fantastic opportunity for Qarnot. In our testing, based on 3D rendering computations, we saw a performance gain of 30 to 45% compared to the Intel i7 we were previously using.

It's doing more work for the same power, how is that anti-AMD? 

 

I've been using PCs as winter heating since before mining even existed, although only in recent years have I acquired enough that excess heat is a bigger problem. Other companies have given away their heat before. I've even considered it, if I could simplify a box someone trusted could run, and I pay for the power used. They get the heat.

[Canada EH]

Solar heating would be cheaper!

[Guest]

19 hours ago, Max_Settings said:

When you turn a meme into a real business

Crank up the AMD FX for a bit of Prime95 while running a GTX 480 quad-SLI and getting some Kombustor going.