Do you turn off your PC when you aren't using it?

shut down if not using it for hours and hours, ie over night or day trip,

s3 if going for food etc,
 
Shut down when not using it. Don't see the point of leaving it chewing electricity, and it's only a matter of seconds to boot again.
 
S3 sleep when i'm not using it, unless it's not going to be used for more than 24 hours, in which case it's off and then off at the wall.
S3 sleep uses so little power that i don't see any reason to turn it off completely when i might need to use it soon.

to those that turn off when it's not in use - do you turn off at the wall too? if not, you know that the 5V standby voltage probably uses as much power as S3 sleep anyway?
 
I leave it on whilst I'm at uni sometimes (with the monitor off and the maximum CPU frequency put down to 12x) if I think I'll need to remotely access some files on it or if it's downloading something important.

Otherwise, I turn it off overnight and when I'm out.
 
I can't stand fan noise so I sleep better with my computer off :/

Seriously though, I always build my PC with power consumption against performance in mind, so that I don't have to worry about switching it off all the time. If I could ever figure out how to get a Wake-On-Lan Magic Packet to work through NAT properly then I would switch my PC off more *embarrassed*.
 
Used to leave it on 24/7, folding, but with rising power costs I shut it down now, if I'm not returning to it within a few minutes.

I have a friend who pays a fixed fee for his electricity who uses various PCs (crunching on both CPU & GPUs) to heat his flat. Never gets cold enough to need the gas heating on!
 
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Electricity gets included in uni bills... Soooo:

Turn it off when I go to sleep, turn it on when I get up. There's no way I could sleep with it on.. and there's no way I'm turning it off between lectures when it takes a good 15 minutes to boot up - I know I need to reinstall windows at some point xD

kd
 
gbradders123 said:
leave it on. need it for my alarm clock. i pay my own bills. surely it cant cost that much to run idle 24/7?
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Depends how power hungry your PC is. I had some free software with my gigabyte board called Energy Saver 2. Using the best saver it turns things like HDD's off and restricts cpu/ram etc to the amount of power they use.
 
Sleep.

Back up in a handful of seconds and all windows and tabs up as they were left.

I'm sure the last malware I caught got fed up waiting for me to reboot the computer and just tried to make a mess of the place while I was still on. Which was handy as I got its locations before it forced a reboot - except I booted back up on a secondary drive... which it wasn't expecting :)
 
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