On or Off?

[mrkilla]

Well it's true enough, its not 4 or 5 hours but it does initially draw more power on start. This is just from experience not that I was reading the meter's But when have UPS (battery) system hooked to a PC and that Battery is near capacity, when you start the PC the Battery "Beeps" Overload, but once the PC is on it goes back down to a "normal" level.

[busguy]

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kind of like a car if you left a car running all the time you'd have less problems

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I'll give you the computer scenario, cause I'm no techie . . . but your car example is just plain wrong . . . and hopefully you see why . . .

[mrkilla]

its a loose example, I relaize and car needs fluids to run, clean oil etc etc

But the general theroy is that its more stress on a car/computer when you start then if you just left it running

[highlife]

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From a Tech, leave it on all the time , reboot it once in awhile [ once a week maybe not even] yes even a windows OS can last this long but no need to do a full shutdown unless you go on vaca and thats just to save elec.


it does no harm to your PC to keep it on, in fact its better to keep it running 24/7 , kind of like a car if you left a car running all the time you'd have less problems,same as far as the computer goes.the most stress is when it starts up.

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the car analogy only applies to diesel engines. With that said, there really is no reason to leave a computer on all the time anymore, components are built much hardier now than they used to be.

[Duke]

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With that said, there really is no reason to leave a computer on all the time anymore, components are built much hardier now than they used to be.

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Tell that to the Apple IIe that still worked when I gave it away last month.

~D

[pokerdirty]

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With that said, there really is no reason to leave a computer on all the time anymore, components are built much hardier now than they used to be.

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Tell that to the Apple IIe that still worked when I gave it away last month.

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why would you give that away?

[Songwind]

Every time you power cycle your computer, the capacitors charge and discharge, which wears them out a bit faster.

I generally turn my computer off if I won't be using it for an extended period (say, going away for the weekend or very busy after work the next day) and otherwise just turn off my monitor.

[Hiding]

Typically the turning off and on will result in thermal stress on components. A componenet may be able to safely run at 100 degrees C but if run up to 100 and cooled to 20 then back up many times you will get die bond fractures (the wires frames connected to the silicon semi conductor seperate)

Thermal cycling will kill any active component at least 10 times faster than a constant temperature.

Easiest example, ever had a light bulb go out an hour after it was turned on? Its fails almost 100% of the time at turn on.

[OtisTheMarsupial]

Leave the main machine on all the time except when I leave town for a few days.

Laptop gets turned off about once a week.

Just curious. Is the computer similarly stressed when it hibernates and then you turn it on again? Also you guys are leaving it on standby when you say your leaving it on right?