Personal question: How old is your computer?

[Xist]

but can they handle Minecraft?

[Postal268]

Currently have 3 running computers I threw together myself. My main one is a little bottle necked on my GPU cause of the chip shortage the past year though. I also have like 5-7 half built computers and a tub of parts.

Can't exactly put a year on the computer itself cause some parts are newish and most are pretty old. I collect other peoples broken computers and build my own from what parts I can salvage but I usually have to buy my graphics cards second hand. My current main pc is using a CPU from 2017 and a GPU from 2016

My main PC at my desk
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700
Ram: 16gb
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
SSD: 500GB
HDD: 4TB
OS: Win 10

My bedroom PC is built from left overs of my old computer
CPU: AMD FX-8350
Ram: 8gb
GPU: ATI RX580
SSD: 250GB
HDD: 1TB
OS: Win 10

On my TV I have a computer I built from some really old parts of mine
CPU: Honestly Can't remember
Ram: 8gb
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3890
HDD: 1TB
OS: Win 10


I have 3 atm cause I bitcoin mined with all of them to save money on my heat bill this winter. My house is only 730sqft but my usual electric bills in the winter (before bitcoin mining) were $200-$250 (our electric rate basically doubles at "peak" hours which in the winter is during the night when the heat works the most) this winter my electric bills ran me between $90-$120 plus I made some crypto from it all, not much, but they were basically space heaters that made money lol now I also set my heat 9 degrees lower than my ex used to like it when she lived with me so that also helped a lot. She'd keep the heat on 77 and I set it 68 this whole winter but for first and last months of the winter I didn't have to even have the heat on thanks to the miners. Ecomodding my house lol

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Gasoline Fumes

My main computer is an eMac purchased new at the end of 2004.

What OS is it running?

Out in the shed I still have a Mac TV.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV

Only 10,000 made and they sold for twice what the eMac cost. Bought for $250 from a college student at the end of Spring Term. For it's time it was the perfect dorm room machine, CD-playing stereo, color TV and a computer in one box.

I retired it when it couldn't boot the new OSXs.

[Xist]

Linus Tech Tips had a video about mining instead of running your heater.

Is it as effective as electric heaters? They say those are 100% effective, yet natural gas is supposed to be much cheaper.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by Xist

Linus Tech Tips had a video about mining instead of running your heater.

Is it as effective as electric heaters? They say those are 100% effective, yet natural gas is supposed to be much cheaper.

Natural gas does tend to be much cheaper. But there are homes without natural gas. In those cases it will cost the same to heat the house off of any electric, resistance heater. The only electric heaters that may do better are heat pumps.

[redpoint5]

Electric heating is 100% efficient with mining, too.

Natural gas is 1/3rd the cost.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Xist

Is it as effective as electric heaters?

The original 128K Mac drew 15 Watts, the same as a night light. So you got the light at cost but the information was free.

[Xist]

Your MacBook Power Adapter Has A More Powerful Processor Than The Original Mac.

The YouTube channel Technology Connection is always pushing the heat pump agenda.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

Natural gas does tend to be much cheaper. But there are homes without natural gas. In those cases it will cost the same to heat the house off of any electric, resistance heater. The only electric heaters that may do better are heat pumps.

Yes, heat pumps are the way to go with electric heat. My current and last 3 houses had heat pumps.

In our current house we replaced a gas furnace with a heat pump. Our January bill dropped from $170 for gas and electricity. Since we put in the heat pump our January utility bills dropped to $95. And that is for a poorly insulated house built in the 70's.

No bad and we get A/C in the summer as a bonus.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by JSH

Yes, heat pumps are the way to go with electric heat. My current and last 3 houses had heat pumps.

In our current house we replaced a gas furnace with a heat pump. Our January bill dropped from $170 for gas and electricity. Since we put in the heat pump our January utility bills dropped to $95. And that is for a poorly insulated house built in the 70's.

No bad and we get A/C in the summer as a bonus.

I often wonder if my parents should go with heat pumps.

They heat off of wood and propane. Last time I checked, the price of propane was similar to electricity.

But there is the initial cost.

Also where to put it as 4ft of snow is possible.

And there's the question of how effective it will be here with some of the coldest temperatures in all of Colorado, and even in the USA. But my theory is we only get super bitter cold for a certain number of weeks. The rest of the year heat pumps should help.