[Short Hand]

Originally Posted by Arkan

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?

modern day boards/cpu's have special features built in to automatically turn it self off if it starts to go to far south. modern Athlons can run perfectly fine up until 100 degree's celcius.

...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?

most modern surge protectors will stop huge shocks from damaging your system. Hense the breaker in it "snaps" temporarily to stop the surge, so no line to go threw, no damage. + I would hope most people shut down and turn off theri computer when a storm is going on, its common sense. + unplug it. (Because even if its off, your still fucked.)

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.

wear starts to happen after the 2nd year, mainly to the HD. MY IBM in the next room is proof of this, its 4 years old and the HD is on its death bed, constant restarts and what not have killed the poor thing. More proof that restarting is not the best option.

Don't be lazy, turn it off.

It is not a matter of being "lazy"

I have kept mine on for the 2 years i have had it and it still runs beutifuly like new.