Do you set your PC to Sleep, Shutdown, or On 24/7

[Technous285]

24/7 Uptime punks. I ~ALWAYS~ have something churning over in the background on my system, turn on the screensaver with the clock when I go to bed so I don't have to wait for the monitors to cycle back on when I get back to the system.

I also keep it running as a white noise generator (can't sleep well otherwise), and during winter the lack of insulation in the house (it's old as buggery, can't add insulation to it, need cash to build the kit house we have in the shed so can replace this ancient place) means that if it's like -4*C outside then it'll be about -4*C inside (and it's gotten as low as around -7*C this year) and the EKWB coolant in my loop is rated to ONLY -3*C, so keeping the machine running keeps the coolant above its freezing point meaning no burst tubing.

Side note: Check your coolant's freezing point rating kids, you might just save a few hundred to a few thousand in replacement parts if you keep your system running and live in an area where it can get below the freezing point of the coolant. Even if you have decent insulation in the house, better safe than sorry.

[You_are_a_cunt]

hibernate whenever I'm not at home. turns on when my phone is in range of the router D:

[NeatSquidYT]

I put it to sleep and then turn it off at the wall. If I don't turn it off at the wall, it turns on randomly in the night and wakes me up. Usually at 4:30 in the morning.

[Aytex]

dang this topic has alot of votes den my other ones

[You_are_a_cunt]

You should've added a hibernate option aswell. I feel left out

[Aytex]

You should've added a hibernate option aswell. I feel left out

sleep/hibernate

[ShaunOfNintendo]

I shut my PC down when I go to bed. I never really have a reason to keep it on overnight especially since it boots up so damn fast with that SSD.

 

I can just turn it on in the morning, go have my breakfast, make a cup of coffee and everything's good to go way before I even go downstairs in the first place lol

[Guest]

Depends on Mood

 

Sleep - 5-10 min breaks

Shutdown - 2 hours every night

Always on - Rarely

Turnip - When I'm hungry

[Oskar94a]

I turn it on when i'm going to use it and then turn it off late at night when i go to sleep

[Wiplive]

Shut down at night, wake up, turn it on and the rest of the day when I'm not using it, I put it to sleep.

[RollinLower]

i always turn mine off when i'm done using it. i have no need for all that unnecessary power consumption!

[KE2012]

Sleep the thing because I can rarely be hassled for os updates. 

[othertomperson]

I also keep it running as a white noise generator (can't sleep well otherwise),

 

I've done this before, actually, due to living with people who snore very loudly. Turn off automatic fan control and set to 80% or something, makes it much easier to sleep.

[mstef]

Shutdown- just there's no need to work 24/7...

And I never use "sleep"- still don't understand the need of that and don't care about 2 min. needed to boot and start all programs... And if power goes down I'll lose everything in sleep mode- it's better to go with hibernation... 

[iHardware Shelden]

Folding, folding, folding, YouTube, game. Repeat.

When your storage drive is over 10 years old and you have an SSD the only option is to keep it on 24/7.

[watts300]

I use a notebook. I close the lid when I'm done and reboot occasionally.

My kid puts his desktop to sleep at night because of the heat. As fast as two RAID'ed SSDs are, waking from sleep is still faster than turning it on.

[xeromynd]

Shut down at night.

Better for the PC, our power bill, preventing dust from building up in the PC, preventing my room from being too hot (it heats up my room a lot), etc. etc.

These reasons

[carguy86]

i turn mine off, dont want my beautifull computer getting dusty.

[conspiravision]

shut her down, with ssd's these days there really is no reason for me not to.  I put my faith into my surge protector so I'm not going to do the paranoid unplug.

[computernerd123]

shutdown. it boots up in like 6 seconds

[Totallycasual]

Why ?

 

I guess because electricity bills are a thing and everything you can do to keep it down helps  

[Shin-Gouki]

Voted Turnip but I'm 24/7 as I fall asleep watching stuff on it. 

[SkimmyMcG]

I usually just set it to sleep, partly because of having an HDD and no SSD, but mainly because I open a lot of tabs in Chrome that I'd rather not close every night.

[Qyoon]

Shutdown because anyway my pc boot in less than 30 sec.

[Jykos]

Shut down because

• I close everything right away when I finish with it
• I have 250GB ssd so boot time is under 30 sec.
• Off at wall at night because the keyboard and mouse lights are annoying and one of my monitors (the 7-8 yearold one that sits, flickering, next to my shiny new one) makes a whiny noise that is noticeable when trying to sleep.