Leaving your computer on 24/7

Still at home so no servers, Just my desktop. I leave it on quite a lot because I often teamviewer into it when working at uni etc as it runs simulations faster than my laptop.

Power usage at idle/browsing is just under 95W. That's an i5 at 4.4ghz, a pair of r9 270's, SSd and HDD. I need to fix the power saving settings for the GPU's though, had to switch them all off for mining purposes.

95w gives a cost of about 25p a day, £7.50 a month, £90 a year.

Also worth noting that I don't have central heating in here, so running the PC saves me running the fan heater most of the way through winter!
 
My Microserver, DAS, switches, APs, UPS etc etc is on 24/7. Doesn't cost anything worth worrying about.

Remember a 700w PSU won't always be using 700w.
 
Use sleep or a shutdown timer if you want to leave a download going.

Main reason not to leave it on is dust buildup. Fans running all day will build up dust like crazy.
 
I have 2 x HP DL 380 G7s running at home in the loft. They are on 24x7. Well, to be fair, at least one of always on 24x7 and that costs me around £15 pm to run
 
On 24/7, no sleep mode, overclocked to hell, 850w PSU Crossfire 7970s, Dell 30" Ultrasharp and 2x Dell Ultrasharp 20" monitors so I can dial in from anywhere to use it.

If I paid the electricity bills I wouldn't do it, but being as they're included in rent I take the mickey.
 
Always turn it off at night or if I know I won't be using it for more than an hour or so.

I have left it on over night a few times if I have something particularly big to download, but other than that it goes off.
 
arknor said:
an idle/web browsing on a pc probably only uses 200-300watt if that which would be around 13p every 4 hours
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Thats like the usage of a fat PS3. Mine only uses just over 100watt. Totally different ballgame when gaming but I hardly do that these days.
 
V F said:
Thats like the usage of a fat PS3. Mine only uses just over 100watt. Totally different ballgame when gaming but I hardly do that these days.
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Mine uses between 50-70w when idle/films/web. Hell, i barley break 300w when gaming, overclocked 3770k and a 670, so nothing fancy. Even those with dual cards and a X79 chip wouldn't see 200w idle thanks to zero core on the cards etc.
 
It's my 5870's thats taking up most at idle. CPU only uses 8 - 15watt according to… whats it called, the intel core temp app? Can't believe I've had these for 4 years now.
 
It's always been a bandwidth ting for me, I remember back in the days of AOL.

Dark days, many trees were burned.

Edit: but the good lord bringeth optics, so I can turn my PC off when I'm not using it.

And the trees and squirrels and badgers said: LO!

And all was good.
 
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