Sleep or shut down?

[Walt]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what I should do when going away from my PC. When I'm going to sleep or going away for half a day should I shut down my PC or should I put it on sleep mode.

Thanks!

[BingoFishy]

Just now, Walt said:

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what I should do when going away from my PC. When I'm going to sleep or going away for half a day should I shut down my PC or should I put it on sleep mode.

Thanks!

Doesn't really matter. I just leave my computer on, it's more convenient but you can save some electricity by shutting it down.

[EPPHO]

1 minute ago, Walt said:

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what I should do when going away from my PC. When I'm going to sleep or going away for half a day should I shut down my PC or should I put it on sleep mode.

Thanks!

Turn it off.

[malon]

I realy don't see a point in putting it in sleep mode if you have nothing important open, especialy if you have an ssd in your pc.

[TetraSky]

Just turn it off. Unless you have some ancient machine, it should boot quick enough to make sleep irrelevant. You also won't have any potential issue from the computer waking up from sleep, which happens more often that you'd think.

[JoePro87]

Yeah, they made a video about this a long time ago.

[vanished]

In your signature, there's a red colon after green text and it's unsettling

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

The more time the system is left on, the sooner a component is going to fail.

[Walt]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

In your signature, there's a red colon after green text and it's unsettling

Oh god your right. Thanks!

 

[Norseman4]

7 minutes ago, Walt said:

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering what I should do when going away from my PC. When I'm going to sleep or going away for half a day should I shut down my PC or should I put it on sleep mode.

Thanks!

At work, I use sleep and only really just reboot it about once a month. (The computer is crap and the corporate scripts tie the machine up for a considerable while on the first sign-on after a boot. If just leaving it (for any reason) during the day I just lock it (Win+L) and power management will eventually put it into a sleep state.

 

At home, my main machine has some aggressive power saving settings so it will either put itself to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity if I don't do it myself. (It boots pretty damned fast, but still.)

[Vulrax]

I dont got an ssd so i put it in sleep cause i dont like waiting

[E-waste]

If you're only going to be away for a few hours, sleep mode would be faster, and just a TINY amount more power efficient, but any more than a night, and a full shutdown and PSU switch off is the best way to fully cut power.  My really old PSU used 2.2 watts when I shutdown the PC, just learned that when I bought a watt meter.  I do folding@home on a Platinum PSU now, and leave it on as much as possible.