Sleep or Shutdown

[computersarecool]

I use my PC about 3 hours a day, straight, each night. Should I turn my computer off and on each time or just put it to sleep?

I am not worried about electricity consumption, only the health of my processor/SSD/Machine in general.

As a related note, my computer tends to "sleep hot" in that the fans to stay on and the computer is not totally silent.

Thanks

 

[vmN]

To be honest it doesn't matter, it might be a better solution to close it, so it can update.

 

[sight]

If your computer is just sitting idle you should really install Folding@Home on your ocmputer to donate your processing power for medical research. If you don't then you are a terrible terrible person.
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If you decide not to fold then it is up to you, either way you will not do any harm to your computer. If you have a custom built computer then the fans will probably stay audible because they run at a higher rpm then the cheap bare minimum stuff they put in laptops and prebuilts. You could also check your fan profile in your bios and download evga precision or a gpu overclocking profile to lower the fan profile for your graphics card.

 

[Pinhedd]

I use my PC about 3 hours a day, straight, each night. Should I turn my computer off and on each time or just put it to sleep?

I am not worried about electricity consumption, only the health of my processor/SSD/Machine in general.

As a related note, my computer tends to "sleep hot" in that the fans to stay on and the computer is not totally silent.

Thanks

There are several different "low power" states that a PC can be in.

The "hot sleep" that you may be thinking of is more commonly known as "away mode", or technically known as "G0 or S0". This simply turns off the display, and sometimes spins down any non-system disks that are not in use. The GPU may be put into a compatible low power state if supported, the AMD Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer will do this.

Next up is "sleep mode", technically known as "G1" has four substates, S1 through S4. S1 and S2 aren't used often, so I won't discuss those. When a PC is put into S3, also called "standby mode", the CPU is powered off, but the power to the memory is maintained. This allows the PC to rapidly resume execution because everything that it needs is held in memory. S4 is known as "Hibernation mode" and in this mode the contents of the memory are written to the disk that holds hiberfile.sys. When the PC is resumed the contents of the hibernation file are copied back into main memory and the PC resumes from where it left off.

You should be able to configure your PC to enter a proper sleep state either automatically or at the push of a button. I recommend doing this rather than leaving your PC on 24 hours per day.