Do you power off your PC?

[keyser van someone]

Usually I leave it on 24/7, doesn't go to sleep, but it is pretty much idle but usually its doing something in the background.

It's heat goes into my flat so I guess it's not a waste? During a heatwave it might be switched off to lower the temp in the room by 0.1C.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Invest in power plugs you lot of you have a smart phone your energy bill will thank you.

Save the planet one pc at a time.

 

[chrcoluk]

10 minutes? What is it that you open that takes that long?

I always turn off my PC when not using, not just overnight. As mentioned by some above, it boots up fast enough.

I often end up with 40+ windows open from various apps, most people who see my desktop are like wtf.

Preserving desktop state is important for me, but it isnt always like that, if there isnt much open, I will do a full shutdown, otherwise its a sleep. I was hibernating but sleep seems fine so use that now.

I am likely accelerating ageing of hardware though with power cycles, it will be interesting if my HDD failure rate shoots up, fans tend to stop working smoothly when I power cycle and since I stopped keeping PC on 24/7 I have done 2 replacements.

 

[Skilid]

Always fully power off my PC. My NAS running unRaid will remain on.

 

[Captain]

Shut down every time.

With NVME Gen4 storage these days, booting up from cold is less than 20 seconds to windows splash screen, from off.

20 seconds? Try less than 10.

 

[TNA]

I often end up with 40+ windows open from various apps, most people who see my desktop are like wtf.

Preserving desktop state is important for me, but it isnt always like that, if there isnt much open, I will do a full shutdown, otherwise its a sleep. I was hibernating but sleep seems fine so use that now.

I am likely accelerating ageing of hardware though with power cycles, it will be interesting if my HDD failure rate shoots up, fans tend to stop working smoothly when I power cycle and since I stopped keeping PC on 24/7 I have done 2 replacements.

Over two decades I have been turning the pc off when not using it. Don't ever recall fan failure. Only fans I ever replaced was for extra cooling or one's that make less noise.

I am either lucky or you are unlucky

 

[subbytna]

20 seconds? Try less than 10.

I'm around 14 or 15 seconds for my setup.

 

[Feek]

Did someone just switch off the pc that runs the forums?

 

[Captain]

Did someone just switch off the pc that runs the forums?

Switch of?

 

[MattyH]

i used to all the time back in 2002-2005 (used to use IRC a lot and played Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 constantly) but i just turn my pc off over night now