QOTD: Do You Shut Off Your PC At Night?

[Huttfuzz]

Always on unless i leave for something like 24 hours or more, this is the green side of me that took over, back when i had my P4 and older systems, it was always on, back to my 486!

 

[Guest]

I find that I have more issues with my scsi RAID drives powering up after a complete shut down.

Now I leave my system on 24/7 and I only shut it down when I am away on business.

 

[Jack64]

Mine stays on 24/7/365, monitor powers down, but the pc stays running

 

[Spazzy]

I always turn my pc off when not in use......WEAR AND TEAR??????This is not a car engine, people. There is no delay in lubrication that would cause excessive wear! This whole thing is a myth. If you want virtually instant access, then put it to sleep. Me, I can wait the 40 seconds it takes to be fully loaded from a full off state. It gives me time to make my cup of coffee. And yes, I have had a couple of pc's last me for more than five years even though I shut them off. One of those pc's I sold to a friend 4 years ago, and it is still running strong.

SHUT THEM OFF OR PUT THEM TO SLEEP. SAVES THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOU!!!!

 

[Aionism]

Yes. It's too loud and I'm afraid that it will burst into flames while I'm asleep.

 

[SoylentGreen]

The whole starting-stopping thing is bunk because nobody keeps computer hardware long enough for it to actually matter. You'd have to start-stop for many years for any damage to start occurring, and most of us have upgraded by then anyway.

And yes I turn mine off at night, because my case has bright LED fans and lights, and it's too loud.

 

[Cuddles]

I used to before my accident but now I run two of them all of the time. It has nothing to do with wear and tear but more about being able to turn on my lights, warm up the water, wake me up, turn on the television, etc. They run my security, monitor my appliances, tell me when someone is in a certain room and when there not. To shut down my sytem would leave me trully handicapped.

 

[Naw-yi]

ive turned on/off mine at least 4 times everyday for the last 2 years. and off at night unless im downloading. wear and tear doesnt apply too much i think, sometimes u just get a bad hd or motherboard, etc. never had to replace just upgraded.

 

[pirateboy]

This is obviously a yes/no type of question. What about a poll feature for QOTD?

QOTD without poll = FAIL

have a nice day

 

[Guest]

On all time mainly coz I get extra downloads at night so thats when all my torrents take off. The odd time I am not downloading I just leave it running. I am off and on it all day kinda add'ish lol.

I sorta agree with the wear and tear thing but Have to mention My Dad turns his off and on at least once a day and He has an 8 year old athlon 2000xp system and the only thing to die recently was the cpu fan which was cheap to replace and the 1st thing that died on my old 2000xp system so that was a bit wierd. Anyways no normal person keeps a pc this long so i'd say off and on is fine but always on is a lot more convenient.

Surely with SSD and windows 7 ect almost instant boots aren't too far off, then maybe I'll turn it off sometimes.

 

[randomizer]

Mine goes on at about 10am (when I'm home all day) and off at about midnight.

 

[echdskech]

my gaming rig, yes. my file server/media/web,all else (this) pc, no.

 

[devilgear44]

put those puppies to sleep. it's all about convenience

 

[Greatwalrus]

Always turn my computer off at night - if it is not off, it is in sleep mode. Rarely, but it happens, I leave my computer on to finish downloading a torrent or finish installing something.

 

[tmike]

far more sensitive to on/off cycles than hard drives: the cheap rocker and pushbutton switches used on monitors and power supplies. If you shut down, at least do it in software instead of actuating those failure-prone switches.

 

[dariushro]

My PC is always on.

 

[sonofliberty08]

nope , i love our planet "Earth"
i will under clock it and lower the core voltage when i leave it on for downloading .

 

[sonofliberty08]

sorry , i mean yes i turn it off when is not needed

 

[eddieroolz]

I put my desktop to sleep, because it's in my room and since it's sitting open-air on my desk, it is indeed quite loud...couple it with a GTS 250, and the incentives for turning it off are greater than the wear.

My laptop stays on a lot though, doing torrents.

 

[scarpa]

What question is this? Why should I leave it on? It's stupid to leave it on during night.

 

[hercules]

I turn mine off every night the blue neons keep me awake

 

[kiang]

I shut down my desktop, but I keep my laptop on almost 24/7...

 

[elkad]

Always on. Monitor gets to shut off after 20 minutes, but nothing else does.

If they woke up faster, I might let them suspend from time to time. But when I want a phone number, or to look at the weather, I don't want to wait 30seconds for my computer to wake back up. And the network is useless if I have to walk down the hall to wake up the machine with the file I want on it.

Not like leaving it on has any effect on the power bill in the winter anyway. Every electrical device is a heater in the end. So turning them off isn't any "greener" either.

 

[DjEaZy]

... i turn of my pc just for hardware update and when there iz a blackout...

 

[DjEaZy]

... i turn off my pc just for hardware update and when there iz a blackout... and because of a psychological trauma... somebody told me, that AMD rig can not run longer than a weak without a restart... last time i restarted 27.03.2009... my system works also as a some kind of home media server...