Do you leave your PC running most/all of the time? Or do you power it down after every use? I leave mine on almost 24/7. Maybe 1 day a week I completely power it down. I've been doing it since I bought the computer in March 2002. I'm curious to hear what others do.

I never leave console game systems or TV's on btw. Computer is the only thing.

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My computer is too loud to keep on. I turn it off when im not on it.

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Yeah I turn my PC off unless I am downloading something. I basically turn everything off in my house when I leave save for a few lights to make people think someone is home. Wasting electricity ftl.

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i leave my computer on all the time, its nice having 120mm fans cooling that sucker so its nice and quiet. also, there might only be a $5 dollar difference in the electric bill if i leave the computer on vs. turning it on and off all the time. and theoretically, its worse to turn it on and off all the time since the voltage/current/etc spikes whenever it is first turned on, thus adding extra wear and tear. Im probably going to need to replace my HSF and case fans soon since i have left my comp on nearly 24/7 for the past 4 years

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I don't turn it on and off all the time either, its either on or off. When its off its off for more than one day. When I leave my PC on its for downloading shit or when I am actually using it. The monitor actually consumes more electricity than the PC. Its a habit from previous versions of Windows leaking memory when left on for extended periods (not to mention heating and fan/cooling system stress). 5 bucks a month adds up to 60 bucks a year, you could buy another game for example (or an eighth of really kind bud).

Well I don't really use my home PC every day, might use my laptop or one of my consoles. If I am just walking away from my PC and intend on using it again that day, then I just turn the monitor off and leave the PC on. There is more to wasting electricity than just the PC or my personal electricity bill. Most of our electricity consumes fossil fuels and it all adds up over time lol. I try not to be excessively wasteful.

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I like how Eternus is one of the few people who realise or at least state publicly that wasting electricity is more than just for your own personal needs. Even if you don't care about global warming and all that piff, we are going to be running out of fuels soon .

I usually leave my computer in hibernate mode with the hard discs powered down, monitor off and speakers off if I'm not using it. Don't like turning it on and off because the wiring in our house is quite dodgy and sudden spikes arent very good for it

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I usually leave mine on. Have been doing so since around 2002 when we built it

i keep my computer on unless im going to be out for more than a few days. i might reboot it once every week or 2, otherwise its always on

i turn mine off every night

My computer hibernates if I don't touch it for 15ish minutes, otherwise it'd be on all the time. Oddly when I have ventrilo open and I'm connected it doesn't ever fully hibernate, just shuts the monitor off so I shake the mouse and it comes back on, don't have to log in to the computer again.

I had my ps2 running nearly 24/7 for a while in 2006. It died and then I had to buy a refurbished one and fully reinstall my hdd and ffxi+zilart+cop+toa. Took 6-ish hours.

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I turn mine off, but only because its in my bedroom and the lights + the slight hum keeps me up. If it wasn't for that I'd probably leave it on all the time.

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I keep my rig on 24/7. It seems power supplies are very random when then want to die.

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"My dreams are all dead & buried. Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode. When God comes and calls me to his kingdom, I'll take all you sonsabitches when I go"

My computer is never off, my tv is never off, my room a/c is never off, the house a\c is never off. Light's are only off during my work hr's... I sleep with the lights on. Since 1999 (when i go my first desktop) i've always done this to all my electronics, never had any power or memory problems. Ever.

I restart it about once a week, the only period i've ever had it off was when i was moving, hurricane season and when i had to upgrade it. I usually leave it seeding on a daily bases (4.5 ration @ 400gig downloads).

I don't really care about wasting electricity, some say you only miss somethings when its go, well its not gone yet!

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God man. Thats terrible. You really don't care? I guess your thinking about right now instead of what happens later.
Ever seen that commerical about the guy who says he doesn't care about global warming because he'll be dead before it does anything to him? Yet the little girl behind him has a train about to hit her.


I'll give you an example because I did a report on energy consumption.
Most electricity in the world in produced by coal.

In fact in the united states about 70 percent of the energy we produced, is generated by burning coal.
Most people assisociate the line Burning of fossil fuels, with ohh driving a car. Its actually not. Burning fuel to drive car produces alot less damaging carbons than running the power requirements for an average home.
I would dare say that even public transportation companies with these claims that they are helping the environment by providing mass transit. I beg to differ the power requirements to power a train grid system is astonding, they're pumping massive amounts of Co2's into the air.

Do you know how much Coal it actually takes to power just one computer for a year? 640 pounds of coal. Yea you heard me right lol. Six hundred and forty pounds of raw physical coal to power just one computer.

The coal industry will have you believe theirs plenty of coal to go around. Last they mentioned the claim was about 300 years. What they continualy fail to mention is the fact that everytime they make that claim, they fail to mention the fact that they don't factor in , population spikes, increases in demand due to that fact, growth in demand in general. They only factor in current energy req for running out society now, but no growth factored in at all.
I checked that out, in reality with growth put into consideration is what is more of a realistic figure, 120 years. Again withholding one very important factor.
The fact that the environment would be completely destroyed if we burned all that coal. Simple case and point is that the planet just wouldn't be able to withstand that amount of abuse.

In the next 20 years, be expecting to see major changes, alongside with serious moves to alternative power sources, and no i'm not talking about gay ass ethanol, look that shit over. Ethanol takes more energy to produce that what its worth. I'm taking about serious moves to nuclear energy. It may scare alot of people, but an average nuclear power plant produces about 1 cubic foot of waste every 2 year, which can be recycled and reused. The united states currently doesn't even do that, because it costs ( boo hoo ) extra money, they'd rather store it.



You know what.. Long story short. Have some consideration lol, granted turning off your computer wears out your harddrive. But the money you save leaving it off outweighs what you spending leaving everything unnessarly on.

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Kioto is just one of those people.

Yes i am. I don't quite care.

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I know. That's because you're one of them.

My computer is always on, i think it's better then always shut it down and open it, for the power supply... And for the question of electricity, it's not worst than a refrigerator running all the days. It doesn't make a big difference on electricity bills. If we would like to waste less, we should just don't have a refrigerator?? : p So the fact is that we don't really have the choice these days, cuz electricity take a lot of place in all sort of things, just the companies with big big machines working 24/7 and all the things running on that, i don't think pcs open all the day or not won't make a really big difference in our world anyway, we are too far now to start changing things... it's too late already : (

my comp. goes into automatic standby every 30 minutes it is unattended. I usually restart it every 2 weeks or so and update it (even though it has that god-awful automatic update and HP imaging montior), disk cleanup and defrag it every 2-3 months.

Its not too late. Changing a simple habit isn't difficult to do lol. A refrigrator is something different. It is necessary for our general health and survival. A computer is different. Its a learning tool a social tool, its many things. Unless you are using it for a specific reason, a pc shouldn't be left on for no reason.

Saying its too late is way too close minded. Right now we are seeing signs that we need to change. Failing power grids in california. Chinese expansion pains and short comings. We need to get the ball rolling.

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The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.

In a little industrie, just a machine running, it's maybe 100x a little computer On all the day. Calculate how many machines in each industries there are, then how many electricity it wastes and then calculate pcs... So do you really think if we close pcs each day it will change somethin?! Like i said, it's already too late... Industries and all the people doesn't wanna change so your little computer On or Off doesn't matter on what will happen later, we're all running to our loss. If we wanna change the world we'll have to return to prehistoric time, no electricity, no pollutions, and even in doing that, it's already too late. Industries have to continue running and shut off our computer is nothing comparing to all other essential things that use electricity. Almost everything work on that now.

Or you could run around and kill people like Patrick Bateman, you may change the world a little that way.

Humans need to stop finger pointing at how useless shit is etc. etc. and realize that sometimes the best change comes from within :P

Umm...
I never mentioned Industry lol. I'm talking about Indivduals lol. Companies leave they're networks on we use them at completely random and various amounts of time a day. You are arguing something completely different.

I'm talking about normal everyday human living habits. Just using the United states for example. 300 million people. Lets say industry wise, they have maybe about 50 million pc's on. Now thats alot... lol. Last I checked though a bit more than half of people living here own a pc of some sort. Lets say 160 million privately owned pc's.
Why is it necessary to have all of those on ?

Your clearly not seeing what i'm talking about. You are mixing what is necessary to be left on, with what doesn't have to be left on.

And with that mindset on ( ohh its to late to do anything about it) (prehistoric but too late still ) <-- big wtf on that one.
Then i guess you don't mind having lots of kids and making sure they witness the mess you and I prepared for them.

In meantime, i'll keep shutting off my pc when i'm not using it. I'll keep shutting off my TV ( not HD thank you FUCK YOU YARR) and i'll make sure to leave the AC Off * the people who really know me, know that i can't have an ac in the house! * HA!
It may be a little thing, but you combine the 300 million people the US has and the 30 million people canada has and you have them turn at least one thing on. You'll see a major difference.

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The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.

I can definitely vouch at this time of year my a/c is most definitely off!

now Mikey go make yourself into a M&M so people will want to eat us.

I leave my computer on all the time. I'll restart every now and then, if I think that I need to refresh my system resources. Thankfully I don't run any apps right now with major memory leaks, haha.

I get messaged every now and again by friends who like to tell me how long my messengers have been connected. It's pretty funny.

I leave my computer on, though, since I have some applications that I try to keep running 24/7 for development purposes.

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