Do You Turn Off Your PC?

Filed in: Tips — April 26th, 2004

Sound simple?

I don’t know how come this question will become the hottest thread in CNET user forum. Personally, I do turn off PC to save electricity. But Brian Cooley has different view, and it sound… reasonable. :neutral:

I know many geeks do not turn off their PCs. What about you? :wink:

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  • http://razzberry.org/ raZZbeRRy

    For a dial-up user like me, I have to switch off my PC. :) But actually according to
    the Readers’ Digest a few months back, it is indeed better to keep it switched on.
    Well, apparently the PC is more durable when kept switched on.

  • http://razzberry.org raZZbeRRy

    For a dial-up user like me, I have to switch off my PC. :) But actually according to
    the Readers’ Digest a few months back, it is indeed better to keep it switched on.
    Well, apparently the PC is more durable when kept switched on.

  • http://www.geocities.com/k4ml k4ml

    previously, I had my pc on all the time for days but now with the very hot climate I had to turn it off sometimes, except for the server and router/firewall. With my previous distro, it took about 40 seconds to boot up so that’s become one of the reason I’d never shutdown. Now I got 20 seconds for boot, so it’s not a big problem anymore. Restarting is not a pain anymore. I’d really love the idea of running it all the time. You can have cron done all the fancy and cool things you would expect. I thought my longest uptime would be 20 days. The only part need to concern is the HD, it’s so hot.

  • http://www.geocities.com/k4ml k4ml

    previously, I had my pc on all the time for days but now with the very hot climate I had to turn it off sometimes, except for the server and router/firewall. With my previous distro, it took about 40 seconds to boot up so that’s become one of the reason I’d never shutdown. Now I got 20 seconds for boot, so it’s not a big problem anymore. Restarting is not a pain anymore. I’d really love the idea of running it all the time. You can have cron done all the fancy and cool things you would expect. I thought my longest uptime would be 20 days. The only part need to concern is the HD, it’s so hot.

  • http://www.azellow.com/ Azel

    I use to switch my PC on like forever but soon realise that my room was way warmer then the other room in my home. Switch on the PC only when I need it and the temperature got slightly better.

  • http://www.azellow.com Azel

    I use to switch my PC on like forever but soon realise that my room was way warmer then the other room in my home. Switch on the PC only when I need it and the temperature got slightly better.

  • http://www.bleargh.com/ LeiF

    cant say much bout my home pc… still using dial-up ler, so OFF lah! at work? rebooted every
    morning… thats it…

  • http://www.bleargh.com LeiF

    cant say much bout my home pc… still using dial-up ler, so OFF lah! at work? rebooted every
    morning… thats it…

  • http://www.lowks.org/cranium/html/ Platypus

    Switch that baby off ?!? Hell no ! … I need to find aliens bub ( seti@home ) !

  • http://www.lowks.org/cranium/html/ Platypus

    Switch that baby off ?!? Hell no ! … I need to find aliens bub ( seti@home ) !

  • http://www.liewcf.com/ LcF

    Ya, heat is also a problem and I afraid my 6 year old power supply’s fan will stop running suddenly…
    Platypus: instead of saerching for aliens, why don’t contribute to folding@home? It is more meaningful. :)

  • http://www.liewcf.com LcF

    Ya, heat is also a problem and I afraid my 6 year old power supply’s fan will stop running suddenly…
    Platypus: instead of saerching for aliens, why don’t contribute to folding@home? It is more meaningful. :)

  • http://sashi-net.blogspot.com/ SS

    i don’t have a UPS or power surge protector (yes, i know i should, but i’m too lazy lah) so i always switch it off during thunderstorms – i actually had an old pc kena fry after a lightning strike, the hard disk was completely gone and the modem also mampus… :sad:

  • http://sashi-net.blogspot.com SS

    i don’t have a UPS or power surge protector (yes, i know i should, but i’m too lazy lah) so i always switch it off during thunderstorms – i actually had an old pc kena fry after a lightning strike, the hard disk was completely gone and the modem also mampus… :sad:

  • Squall

    anyone mind to calculate how much we need to pay if let the pc on the whole month??

  • Squall

    anyone mind to calculate how much we need to pay if let the pc on the whole month??

  • Nilesh Babu Patel

    I don’t turn off my PC for weeks. My last record was 28 days (running on Windows XP Prof):grin:

  • Nilesh Babu Patel

    I don’t turn off my PC for weeks. My last record was 28 days (running on Windows XP Prof):grin:

  • Loh

    I not switch off my WindowsXP for few day, it will become
    slower and slower. unless u restart, it will not back to
    normal speed…:cry:

  • Loh

    I not switch off my WindowsXP for few day, it will become
    slower and slower. unless u restart, it will not back to
    normal speed…:cry:

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