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How much more energy do I save if I put my PC on stand-by? is it better than turning it off every night?

thanks

you aren't using much when you stand buy, but i turn mine off when i go to sleep

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i just leave it running man.... turn off the monitor and sleep. Booting it off is the worst thing to do to a pc, like starting up a car without synthetic oil, its grind and wear on it, power charging threw, HD spinning back up, it ain't good for your comp.

meh, i just shut down, wont your comp get too hot if you never shut sown?

This is one of the oldest asked questions. Here is my take on the whole thing.

Turn the fucker off when you're done using it. Why you ask? Well, for starters, what if you weren't home, or worse yet, asleep and your cooling fan took a shit or something like that and the fucker started to burn. Now what?

...or, there's a lightning storm in the middle of the night and you get a nasty surge that the protector fails to stop. You do have that cable protected, don't you?

Also, turning it on and off probably isn't the best thing for it but thats only if you own the same computer for 20yrs!! I turn everything off (modem included) and haven't had a problem in 5 yrs.

Don't be lazy, turn it off.

I usually turn it off althoh sometimes I just put it on stand by.

meh ive left all mine on constantly since commodore 64 and never had a surge problem, or had tings burn out... one HD crapped out after 3 years tho..

Should I turn off computer when it's not in use?
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
Associated Press
8/9/2004

Q:
I've heard that frequently turning my computer on and off can hurt the performance of internal parts. But I don't want to leave it on all the time either and waste power.
What's the best course?

A: While it once might have been true that computer hard drives or power-supply systems could be degraded over time by turning the machines on and off, there's little reason now not to go the green (and money-saving) route: Shut things completely down if you're not going to be using your PC for many hours.

Recent tests at the University of Waterloo in Ontario found that computers with Pentium 4 processors running at 1.7 gigahertz drew 110 watts of electricity while booting up and 60 watts when they were on but idle. A
17-inch cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor added an additional 75 watts. Newer, flat-screen LCD monitors use about half as much juice as CRTs.

In a sense, then, the PC isn't a big juice hog. A microwave oven devours electricity at a rate of 750 to 1,100 watts, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

PCs in power-saving standby or sleep mode have even less of a presence. In the Waterloo tests, they were draining 35 watts. That's roughly equivalent to three clock radios.

But add up hours of standby time, and multiply that by the millions of computers in the world, and it is some serious electricity.

In fact, microchip maker Infineon Technologies AG, which is working on making electronics' sleep modes more energy efficient, estimates that a mere 1 percent decrease in standby power consumption would save the nation 360 megawatts - the equivalent of a medium-sized power plant. Put another way, 10 percent of an average home's electricity consumption comes from machines of some kind sitting on standby, said Infineon spokesman Saswato Das.

Dell, the world's leading seller of PCs, has no official position on whether its customers should leave the machines running or not. Leaving computers on all the time doesn't erode their performance, but it doesn't appear that turning them off and on does either, because the reliability of key parts has improved significantly, spokesman Lionel Menchaca said.

"There used to be a bigger difference in terms of wear and tear when you power up your PC, but it's not as much of an issue now," Menchaca said.

After the tests at Waterloo, Manfred Grisebach of the university's information systems and technology group pointed out that hard drives that never get shut down seem to live a long time. But, he said, so do drives that get shut off all the time.

"What we can't say is which last longer," he said.

that article doens't answer anything any better. You just made people feel more fucked up biggrin: .

imwithstupid: and i read it..

id ont see the piint to keeping the comp on..llike wy it take slike 10 seocnds to boot up...why waste any enegry

MBM 5 makes my startups long, and theres no point in not leaving it on..

Well, im not lazy, I always turn it off when im not using it, but all ive been hearing is putting wear and tear on the PC each time u turn it off and on. so I just wanted to know if putting it on stand by is better for it.