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zeroo

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Hi, as the title says, on or off. I have all ways turned my pc off every night, but just latley I have left it on. I would just like to know what you do.
Thanks for any input to this thread
 
I shut it off every night because there's no point for me to keep it on all the time. Sometimes though when I have downloads or maintenance to run I leave it on all night.

I also have the BIOS set to turn the computer on every morning so it's all ready to go when I get up.
 
I turn it off. Having blue LEDs on my case and 6 fans going all at the same time means that it's bright and noisy and that gets annoying when my PC is in my bedroom and I'm trying to get to sleep.
 
Yeah I turn mine off at night because my tower is right next to my head, and I'd like to sleep without the blue LED's and 4 case fans blowing.
 
...saves power too. Not so much of a problem these days with energy efficient hardware though, but still saves power.
 
spirit said:
I turn it off. Having blue LEDs on my case and 6 fans going all at the same time means that it's bright and noisy and that gets annoying when my PC is in my bedroom and I'm trying to get to sleep.
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I unplugged my lights, and I have a fan going all the time so it doesn't bother me. Besides that, my computer is on my desk under my bed so I don't see the lights anyway if they're plugged in lol.
 
Doesn't matter where in the room I put my PC though, the lights illuminate the room.
 
I shut it down, no reason to let it eat dust all the time when I sleep or I'm at school...
In the vacation I leave my pc in standby mode most nights.
 
When you start paying your own electricity you will start by turning your computer off when you aren't using it.
 
Thanks for all your feed back, I think if my pc was in the house I would turn it off, as like someone else has said, the collection of fans would bother my wife with there constant humming. But are computers ment to be left on ?,for eg: windows auto updates and scheduled virus scans. Just a thought.
Thanks for any further input
 
zeroo said:
Thanks for all your feed back, I think if my pc was in the house I would turn it off, as like someone else has said, the collection of fans would bother my wife with there constant humming. But are computers ment to be left on ?,for eg: windows auto updates and scheduled virus scans. Just a thought.
Thanks for any further input
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They aren't "meant" to stay on, but there's no problems with leaving them on all the time or turning them off, it's just a matter of paying the electric bill. I have a laptop that has been on 24/7 running some APRS applications for a year now.
 
All 3 of my systems are on all the time. 24 - 0
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lucasbytegenius said:
I shut it off every night because there's no point for me to keep it on all the time. Sometimes though when I have downloads or maintenance to run I leave it on all night.

I also have the BIOS set to turn the computer on every morning so it's all ready to go when I get up.
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How do you do that?
 
I keep my running most of the time in less I am going to be away from home for a long period of time. Mine sits in the front room, no worries about keeping me awake. And with my HAF 922 XM, I can turn my front led off or on when I want to.
 
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