Do you leave your PC on at night?

[mechaman]

24/7...unless it fucks up. then I restart

[Phaelon]

The real wear and tear damage to a computer occurs starting and stopping it. Everything in a computer is in two states, on or off, 0 or 1, electricity or none, open circuit or closed circuit.

The worst for hard drives is turning them on and turning them off. Leave a computer on will do LESS harm to the actual physical computer than turning it off.

I turn the computer in my room off everynight. All the servers and media computers are 24/7. Whatever you do, continue to do it. If it is off, leave it off, if it is on leave it on

[worldvengence]

All the damn time, i think i havent restarted in 3 months, and i think my AIM has been online at the moment for 5 days and 13 hrs.

[321]

Yeah, I leave my laptop on all the time but I turn my gaming PC off whenever I'm not using it.

[Acaila]

Mine hibernates, so cute when it's sleeping.

[martyr]

i used to leave all my stuff on 24/7.

now that i pay my own electric bill... i don't.

[Fragmatic]

Originally Posted by dscytherulez

Leaving your PC on all the time is a bad habit. It's bad for it. The longer you leave your PC running the more likely windows will crash the next time you use it. You need to shut down so your memory can be cleared and leaks can be fixed. Another reason is for security purposes. The more your comp is on, the more susceptible it is to remote attacks while your asleep/away.

You suck.

RAM Def XT + Good Security > Your Intelligence.

No crashes.

24/7 unless crash (1nce or twice a month) or restart due to software install/config changes.

[ZeusCali]

i leave my 2 mac laptops on alot of the time.
i turn my pc off before i go to sleep.
and i put my 3 palm pilots on sleep mode before going to sleep.
i'd put my palm cell phone on sleep too but it recieves ICQ messages and stuff so i need to leave it on (haha i ownd you j/k).

[Surge]

I have to or my computer doesnt boot... Soundcard related issues.

my Audigy 2 ZS can suck it.

[jedi]

24/7/365 unless I'm forced to restart/shutdown/ or windows fucks up

[Bokuden]

Laptop only when i use it ...
Desktop 24/7

[ChewyLSB]

All the time, unless, of course it crashes. I put it in hibernate every time I'm not using it.

[Liquidtide]

My housemates leave all their PCs on all the freakin time. I turn mine off when I'm not using it. But they leave their PCs on so everyone can read their lame away IM messages. In fact I had one housemate who went on a week and a half vacation and left up a message saying... I'm on vacation ... now here's the thing that gets me. You more than likely have already told everyone that is close to you that you are going on vacation you do not have to leave it on your away message!!!

And on to the tree hugger argument... besides vehicles the US uses oil for electricity. Less than 25% of our nations electricity comes from Nuclear or renewable resources (hydro, steam, solar). Therefore if you do not turn your computer off you are using a lot of electricity. That fan and powersupply (doesn't matter much if your HDD goes idle) is using at least 120-140 watts of power. Do you sleep with the lights on? Because that computer is using the same amount of electricity that 2- 60watt lightbulbs are (that's the standard house bulb) and almost as much as 2- 75 watt bulbs, even brighter.

So please turn the damn thing off...!!!

~Tide

[GreyFox]

I leave my laptop on. (A big reason is because I play Idle RPG )

[Strygun]

yeah, mine stays on all the time. I usually leave the one I chat with on, while my gaming computer turns off nightly.. usually.