Soldato
If you need white noise, then just get an app on your phone. It is what I use, or used to, before I got my HomePod. I now just ask Siri to play "White noise".
Do you power off your PC?
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Mine gets put in sleep mode during the day and powered off overnight. Sleep mode only uses a few watts and takes seconds to wake.
Soldato
Left on 'idle' is a little vague..
Here's a good overview:
Sleep States Available on your Windows 10 PC
How to See Sleep States Available on your Windows 10 PC
www.tenforums.com
My server is not so great.. it's on 24/7 running everything, that is currently idling at 70w (with a stack of HDDs and running lots of Apps in UNRAID).., at todays rates that's £245 a year!
Man of Honour
Depends on the P C. A more modern rig will throttle down to speeds that draw less than 1 watt for example when idle from the CPU, other components will vary but essentially they're pretty efficient these days providing the user has set up power settings in the BIOS and OS correctly.
Soldato
My home PC I do shut down but my work one backs up at nights so it is left on.
Caporegime
Since getting the iPad I've only turn the PC on when i need to do PC stuff so yes, it's off. It's not been on for 2 days actually.
Soldato
Did you get the fancy keyboard with it too?
Caporegime
I did in the end because i found typing on the ipad screen to be a bad experience compared to even a phone.
Have you tried a cheap air purifier, it's just a fan running through a filter at the end of the day. Mine in night mode draws about 7w but gives a bit of background noise.
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Always shutdown when I'm not using it, Takes like 7 seconds for my system to be at desktop so no point in it been left on using electricity.
Soldato
I have two Dell SFF PC's that are in 24/7 as they do my router, cctv, and NAS duties. But they probably use around 40w at idle between the pair of them so not a huge cost.
Everything else gets turned off though. Sometimes my gaming rigs don't get used from one week to the next. Use laptop daily and that boots in seconds so no need to leave it on or even put it to sleep.
Everything else gets turned off though. Sometimes my gaming rigs don't get used from one week to the next. Use laptop daily and that boots in seconds so no need to leave it on or even put it to sleep.
I think hibernate doesnt have that problem, which is why I am using it over sleep.
Soldato
I find it's quicker to boot from cold than hibernate. Not done that since Vista days.
For me I dont care about boot time, but the fact my current state of my desktop is preserved.
It might take 30 seconds to boot, but it might also take 10 minutes to reopen everything back to how it was manually, the reason I was keeping the PC on 24/7 before.
My system does recover from hibernate faster than a cold boot though, it also shuts down about the same speed, probably due to using NVME nand storage, I expect hibernation benefits from it greatly.
Soldato
That’s fair. There is an option in windows to reopen stuff from the previous session, not sure how well it works. It could save a lot of unnecessary writes to nand though.
Yeah I did check the host writes on smart, but seems to be barely different to normal, keeping the PC up 24/7 has huge nand writes anyway because windows logs so much data, its very verbose so I do wonder if the shutting it down is compensating for the hibernation file writes.
I shut down and turn it off at the plug these days.
Between the PC with its perpetual RGB that will not turn off even when set to off (just annoying mostly), laptop charger, two monitors, motorised desk and a few other bits, the whole set up must run a fair few watts from the wall just plugged in and switched off.
Between the PC with its perpetual RGB that will not turn off even when set to off (just annoying mostly), laptop charger, two monitors, motorised desk and a few other bits, the whole set up must run a fair few watts from the wall just plugged in and switched off.