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Just curious: How many of you guys leave your PC on 24/7, and why?

 

I leave it on, mostly because I don't want to deal with boot times. (No ssd)

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Can you add an option for sleep mode. I have it go to sleep after 6 hours, so it sleeps for part of the night, I do have an htpc that is on all the time since it runs a minecraft server.

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Can you add an option for sleep mode. I have it go to sleep after 6 hours, so it sleeps for part of the night, I do have an htpc that is on all the time since it runs a minecraft server.

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Personally i dont see why i'd ever put the pc to sleep or something, if i go to sleep, i turn it off, if im going to be away for more than 3 hours, i turn it off, i have an ssd and it starts up pretty fast. I dno just imo!

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24/7 + Sleep, with occasional restart for updates (if I could do away with it, I probably will at some point - Linux might be an option avoiding kernel upgrades or using kexec - only done light reading on it, so that could have pitfalls too).

 

I've been doing it for over a year with no issues whatsoever. Afaik, continuous running is better for the components as opposed to power-cycling the components. Dunno how much of it actually applies, but it's seen in Engineering applications a lot: a higher constant, continuous load results in a longer failure time than lower magnitude, cyclical loads.

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I usually turn it off whenever I'm not using it, but my upload speed is super slow so sometimes I have to leave it on overnight to upload videos

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I usually turn it off because I have an SSD and because Windows accrues enough errors to crash every 6 months or so if you leave it on, but I leave it on if I'm running game servers, torrenting, or uploading video/audio.

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I usually turn it off whenever I'm not using it, but my upload speed is super slow so sometimes I have to leave it on overnight to upload videos

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I turn it off when I go to bed, but if I go away during the day for more than 2-3 hours I put it in sleep mode.

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I put mine to sleep at like 1am most evenings and then is set to power up at 7am and then runs till 1am.

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It is recommended to turn it off, if you care enough about the parts in your system, you'll do this, but if you're like me and your daily use pc is not particularly important or special, then just leave it on 24/7.

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It is recommended to turn it off, if you care enough about the parts in your system, you'll do this, but if you're like me and your daily use pc is not particularly important or special, then just leave it on 24/7.

 

It's strange, because many people recommend otherwise! 

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It's strange, because many people recommend otherwise! 

don't waste the power ffs how spoiled and careless can someone become? take responsibility

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It's strange, because many people recommend otherwise! 

Hard drivers are not meant for 24/7 use. And also do you think always running V through your components is better than if you didnt? 

The only counter argument is that shutting down and power up the pc causes a fluctuation in temps which causes them to expand and contract ever so slightly but im pretty sure that if two identical systems where to: one turn of and on every night, and one to be always on. Im sure the first one would last longer.

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my pc automaticly goes into sleep mode after 15 minutes, usually just leave it on and let it enter sleep mode, aside from when im going to bed or leaving for couple of hours then i shut it off.

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It's strange, because many people recommend otherwise! 

The components of a computer are made to take the stress of going from a dead stop to a full start, although leaving the computer on 24/7 is better for the components in theory, the life time will be shortened.  On top of that, unless you have haswell, you'll save a few bucks on the power bill by turning it off.  Recommend to turn it off, but it's okay if you don't.

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don't waste the power ffs how spoiled and careless can someone become? take responsibility

Most systems idle at less than 100W. 100W is stretching it, especially for sleep mode. Assuming an average load of 100W, thats 72kWh per month (24/7 operation; you can calculate the kWh for only night time sleep power consumption, which is far less). Which, depending on the price of electricity (10cents/kWh, it's cheaper in some other places), is $7.2 per month. Barely noticeable considering all other high-power appliances in a typical household. Most people can definitely afford that, even on min. wage.

 

Only gaming can really skew that towards higher averages, but nobody games for 24/7. 

 

Short version is, turning it off vs. sleep saves very little in the 8 or so hours overnight.

 

e: Just to give you some numbers, a computer in sleep mode consumes 5-10W. That translates to 1.2kWh (8 hours at night over 30 days) per month. You're saving $0.12-0.24 per month by turning it off at night.

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Most systems idle at less than 100W. 100W is stretching it, especially for sleep mode. Assuming an average load of 100W, thats 72kWh per month (24/7 operation; you can calculate the kWh for only night time sleep power consumption, which is far less). Which, depending on the price of electricity (10cents/kWh, it's cheaper in some other places), is $7.2 per month. Barely noticeable considering all other high-power appliances in a typical household. Most people can definitely afford that, even on min. wage.

 

Only gaming can really skew that towards higher averages, but nobody games for 24/7. 

 

Short version is, turning it off vs. sleep saves very little in the 8 or so hours overnight.

 

Agreed. That's why I think it's so negligible, it's not really responsibility. There are worse things you can do like leaving your kitchen lights on 24/7.

 

I was wondering what was better for the PC 

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The components of a computer are made to take the stress of going from a dead stop to a full start, although leaving the computer on 24/7 is better for the components in theory, the life time will be shortened.  On top of that, unless you have haswell, you'll save a few bucks on the power bill by turning it off.  Recommend to turn it off, but it's okay if you don't.

 

Most people on this forum would be upgrading before their parts get too old anyways though. I guess the difference is too negligible to matter at all.

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I turn it off, I do not have a ssd and boot times don't really affect me as when I turn it on I generally go do something else such as go to the toilet or get dressed or something along those lines.

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Sleep / Hibernate is a non-factor to me, I either keep it off if I'm going away for a week or more, or keep it on for the long term health of my components.

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i have mine always on because i have such a slow connection i have to download all of my steam games at night so i can use my internet through the day. when imove out from my parents and get a better connection and start paying for my own power it wont be on 24/7.

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Sleep mode , like always...

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I shut mine off when not in use so it will collect dust not as fast. in my old place there was almost no dust so i left it on 24/7.

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