{"id":1992,"date":"2026-02-26T19:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sznetwork.systems\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:41:56","slug":"i-tried-boiling-water-with-an-old-cpu-while-crypto-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sznetwork.systems\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"I Tried Boiling Water with an Old CPU\u2026 While Crypto Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Tried Boiling Water with an Old CPU\u2026 While Crypto Mining\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLvGwpzD30I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udcbb <strong>Can you boil water with a CPU while mining crypto?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video I try a crazy DIY experiment \u2014 using an old LGA775 CPU as a water heater while mining <strong>Monero<\/strong>! \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea was simple:<br>If a CPU produces heat under 100% load\u2026 maybe it can boil water? \u2615<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I removed the heatsink, glued a stainless steel bowl directly onto the processor using thermal paste (very professional engineering \ud83d\ude05), poured 200ml of water, and started mining with <strong>XMRig<\/strong> to stress the CPU to maximum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Starting water temperature: 27\u00b0C<br>\u23f1 After 1 hour of mining: 41\u00b0C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did it boil?<br>No.<br>Did we learn something?<br>Absolutely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a timelapse experiment just for fun \u2014 testing how much real heat a CPU can generate and whether crypto mining could theoretically heat water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Warning: Don\u2019t try this with expensive hardware unless you\u2019re ready to sacrifice it \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-cb81896814b8b2e225e7f84c57d5f314\">If you enjoy weird DIY tech experiments, low-resource hardware projects, and testing crazy ideas \u2014 subscribe and stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc4d Like<br>\ud83d\udcac Comment what experiment I should try next<br>\ud83d\udd14 Don\u2019t forget to subscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udcbb Can you boil water with a CPU while mining crypto? 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