I live in an area with frequent thunderstorms due to the seabreezes. Both myself and a friend of mine lost a PC due to a nearby lightning strike, so now I shut mine down, and disconnect the cable during storms. My friend swore he'd never leave his PC running while he was sleeping ever again. So OT, is your PC on all of the time, or shut down if you aren't using it?
Depends on how tired I am or busy I will be the following morning. If not tired at all, I'll put it into hibernate so once I wake up after a few hours of sleep (insomnia), I'll just hop onto my laptop. If I'm really tired and or have plans in the morning, I'll turn it off completely.
Curious how much money can you save per month from having it shut off lets say 12 hours a day then having it on? Anyone know an estimatebluetadomonk
A computer pulls about 250 watts on average, so 3kw/h a day, 90 a month. Electricity really varies in price, though. Here it's about 7 cents a kW/h, so you'd save about six bucks a month by leaving it off. Might be closer to $12 in some US locations, though.
[QUOTE="bluetadomonk"]Curious how much money can you save per month from having it shut off lets say 12 hours a day then having it on? Anyone know an estimateDJ_Lae
A computer pulls about 250 watts on average, so 3kw/h a day, 90 a month. Electricity really varies in price, though. Here it's about 7 cents a kW/h, so you'd save about six bucks a month by leaving it off. Might be closer to $12 in some US locations, though. Thanks thats a lot less then i was expecting but then again i know little to nothing on the subject, i appreciate it :). I'll continue to leave the computer on for the most part well into living by myself haha
[QUOTE="bluetadomonk"]Curious how much money can you save per month from having it shut off lets say 12 hours a day then having it on? Anyone know an estimateDJ_Lae
A computer pulls about 250 watts on average, so 3kw/h a day, 90 a month. Electricity really varies in price, though. Here it's about 7 cents a kW/h, so you'd save about six bucks a month by leaving it off. Might be closer to $12 in some US locations, though.
Hmm...I applaud you for knowing this, unless you're just making it up. Palantas will use his $12 to buy a martini.
I know I should shut mine down, but I never do... It goes into sleep mode (not hibernation) after 5 minutes, though. But yeah, one of these days I'll be more responsible and just turn it off.
My Dell laptop somehow magically cracked like hell for some reason on the hinges so when I close it the right side hinge cracks open wide and even the frame for the screen pops out. The motherboard also has a problem because it won't recognize my charger so it doesn't charge but it will stay on if it's plugged in. Finally it has a problem with the power switch I think from it being cracked as I tried force closing it I messed up a wire but for some reason shaking and semi closing/opening it will eventually turn it on but it's risky. So to recap I can't close it, can't turn it off, can't unplug it, so I just put it into sleep mode when I'm not using it forever until the battery eventually dies.
My desktop I'll leave on only if I've got a big download to complete. Most of the time when I'm not using it I shut it off. My laptop I usually just have go to sleep.
I use laptops rather than PCs which always need to be hooked up to a power outlet, so it gives me a bit more flexibility. I have it set for them to automatically hibernate in just a few minutes if not used, but rarely shut it down completely, so in that sense they're almost always on, but I do unhook the power during thunderstorms. I'm not paranoid enough to unhook them every night though.
No I used to buy now I try to conserve electricity as much as possible but i hate having to wait a long time for a fresh boot up off my pc so I use hibernate when I'm going to be away from my pc for hours or days and not downloading large files or running a full computer scan. For shorter period I use sleep mode and more recently at night to keep my pc leds fans going to act as a night light reading all those creepypasta late at night wasn't such a good idea :(
i do a lot of video conversions so i tend to leave my laptop on for long periods of time, my desktop i never leave on over night, it has a clear side to it with lighting that can make it a little hard to sleep at night :P
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