An article over at Microsoft Small Business Center asks: Do you need to turn off your PC at night?.
More often than not I leave my desktop PC on overnight. I only turn them off if I will be away for a day or more. Most of the time, it’s running Limewire, iTunes or some torrents but sometimes I just leave it there with nothing to do. I just turn off the monitor/LCD to save on electricity. I do this primarily because there are cases when I need to login or use the PC so quickly, it’s easy to just turn on the LCD/monitor than to wait 2-3 minutes for Windows to boot up.
The article discusses the use of sleep or hibernate instead of turning it off or pulling the plug. An unplugged PC still consumes 2.3 watts (because of LAN) and uses the same power during hibernate while on “sleep” mode, it eats up 3.1 watts. Regular monitors consume 75 watts when left on, 5 watts in “sleep” mode while LCD monitors eats up 22 watts when turned on and 3.3 watts in sleep mode.
These might be small figures but if you add them up in a year (365 days), you could save up to thousands of pesos (depending where you are or how much your power rate is).
So, do you also leave your PC on at night?
[...] a discussion over at Yugatech asking if people turn off their computers at night. Personally, I’ve been using standby. [...]
Nope… Too many downloads, i don’t even turn my computer off if i’m out for hours; well I do sometimes especially if i’m out for 2 days or so.
I always turn off our desktop computer when it’s not in use but sometimes I forget to. I never turn off my laptop (the adapter says 65watts).
I also have my old desktop with Linux that I use as a media server. It’s on 24/7.
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No, it stays on along with the other 10 systems I have in the house. The only ones that go off are laptops.
hmmm its kind a wierd cuz my desktop is 24/7 – OFF!! hehehe because its not working anymore, wahahahaha.