On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not.
400W is about a quarter of a bar heater. Bar heaters do get warm. Mind you, it's not actually drawing 400watts, especially if it's a power supply that can in reality only provide 200watts (400 chinese watts) before flaking out. We have a couple of new Vblock racks that are being commissioned right now at work. They're not actually running a load yet, but our facilities guy is worried that they're already taking 80% of their stated load without doing anything yet. -- Tim Connors