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as the topic says: is it worth buying asic miner to heat my apartment?

in the winter months, i use a electric heating. it would be worthwhile to buy for it asic miner and heating with it my apartment?

is there anything in this direction? i have not found anything yet. and how is the volume of such asic miner? audible?

You probably would not be able to stand the sound it makes. I suggest building a GPU mining. It will heat up your apartment and spare your ears :)

I'm not sure.

First about ASIC price, ASIC price (whatever Algorithm) costly enough. And next winter, those ASIC may have too old for doing mining.

Second, How many ASIC you need?. One ASIC machine may can only heat small space and would be noisy.

oh, asic miner are so loud....? this is bad. so a gpu miner. will try to collect some information about gpu miner. thanks for the advice.  :)


that's right, these are things that I have to think about it. thanks for the advice.  :)

No problem. My understanding is if you lower fan speed it means you get less hashes from the ASIC. This maybe different for different ASICs however. Someone may come with no adjustment. I suggest you watch some youtube videos for sound. They make more noise than a hair dryer.

A GPU rig will cost you 3 times as much as an asic and only put out half the heat. Its not worth trying to use GPUs to heat up your house.

You'd have to make sure your apartment can handle power requirements for selected ASIC.  Also, a space heater may be a more cost efficient option for heating vs buying an ASIC and then factoring in electrical cost, if electric costs apply.

Get some AMD VEGA GPUs. The reference edition with blower fans. They are notorious for blowing hot air around a room. I remember when i ran my rig in my room. Everytime i come home and open the door it feels like im entering a sauna. I live in a tropical country btw so if you live anywhere else it should be bearable. Probably..

In my opinion, it is not worth it because of the sound, GPU is better

Yes, GPU rigs cost more than ASICs, but they hold their value way longer, since at some point, ASICs become a door weight while GPUs could be used for gaming for years to come. And as others have posts, ASICs are a lot louder than GPUs. My brother and a friend of mine both have the L3+ and said they are as loud as a vacuum cleaner.

I've used GPUs to help heat a house, and they did help reduce my heating bills by quite a bit. And this spring, I moved them to a closet adjacent to my office, and they've kept my office very cozy.

However, in the summer, you will need to ventilate the miner to the outdoors or you will roast.

yes, i have watched the last few hours a few videos. the noises are really loud. i was not expecting that. believe the noise becomes a problem.  :'(


i'll work it out later. the price is an important factor.


this is not a problem. my apartment can handle it. i have extra lines for the space heater. yes, electric costs apply. this was the main reason and the idea to change my space heater to asic or gpu miner.


thanks for the advice.


thanks for the advice.

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thanks you all for your posts. that definitely helped me a lot. in any case, the next few days i make me more thoughts about it

Well basically it could make your room warm easily, but the thing is its noise level is about > 74dB, so almost like a vacuum cleaner. For me, I will consider a GPU mining rig which may have only 4-5 GPUs. Its price is quite relatively same as an asic miner (around 2000 usd). And of course, it also could heat your apartment in silence, even me, in the winter, I move one of my rig back to my apartment as well :P

If you are deaf and have no concerns over at quality then this is a great idea.

your idea is certainly interesting.but you can live with constant noise?by instruction the temperature is from 0 to 40.Depending on the ambient temperature there will be different temperatures in your room. if you use it for heating, then in winter it will not be relevant.you will have to warm the room itself.

i think slowly, the implementation is not possible. it always fails because of the noise problem. asic or gpus, both are very loud and since i'm not deaf, it's a problem.

anyway, thanks you all for your answers. i leave the thread open. maybe someone find a solution for the noise problem.  :)

i close the thread now. i think no one has a good idea to solve the noise problem.

anyway, thanks to all for the answers.