keggerz Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 (edited) Just curious if there is a right or wrong answer for this(or better or worse scenario)... I never turn any of my PCs off(including my Point Of Sale system) I do usually turn the monitor off but not always... One of the reasons I ask is because in the new store I have 2 PCs that are in metal kiosks and the power for the monitor is tied into everything else...The screen saver is set to marquee with a saying we want to display while its not being used... so are there any worries about leaving PCs and Monitors on all the time(excluding being cheap about the electric bill)? Edited May 15, 2007 by keggerz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Nothing wrong with doing it, I leave all of mine on at the house all the time. There is a school of thought that it will help the equipment last longer by leaving it on. The heat cycles being what causes the circuit boards to degrade or some such wisdom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_bone65 Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Never turn mine off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 What is the electric cost? Mrs. chester always wants me to turn the computer off at night to save money and I tell her it's close to nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I never turn mine off unless going to be away for a long weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 What is the electric cost? Mrs. chester always wants me to turn the computer off at night to save money and I tell her it's close to nothing. It's next to nothing. My economics professor actually went into too much detail one lecture on it. My guess is that he had tenure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I always have turned mine off if I am away from it for more than an hour or so. Just always have. One reason is that it lessens the chance someone could hack into it (small as that actually is anyway) and I just do not like leaving my world up and running for anyone to sit down and mess with if I am not there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted May 15, 2007 Author Share Posted May 15, 2007 I always have turned mine off if I am away from it for more than an hour or so. Just always have. One reason is that it lessens the chance someone could hack into it (small as that actually is anyway) and I just do not like leaving my world up and running for anyone to sit down and mess with if I am not there. you do know you can add a password for your user name to keep people out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 you do know you can add a password for your user name to keep people out Don't get technical on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 How about just putting it on sleep mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 How about just putting it on sleep mode? uh yeah I was wondering Khloe, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian on that also. Just go into Display settings and you can set when the monitor goes off (eg 1 hr, 2 hrs etc). As for heat/elect costs, pretty sure that was much more w/CRTs than it is w/LCDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 never turn the home computer off...just let it sleep at night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 As for heat/elect costs, pretty sure that was much more w/CRTs than it is w/LCDs. This is very true. I recently went from a 21" CRT to a 22" widescreen LCD (nearly the same total screen area). That CRT was like a space heater. Anyway, I always put my monitor and comp to sleep, but rarely shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonKnight Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 As far as the bill goes: I had a computer with a 21" Trinitron monitor that I left on all the time and it broke so I was without a computer for a month. My electric bill went down 30$... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayItAintSoJoe Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I never turn mine off. I have it set to run a complete virus scan, and check for certain software updates in the middle of the night rather than during the day when I’m using my PC the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I shut down mine at home everytime. I don't use it that much to leave it on all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 PC stays on, monitor off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I always turn mine off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 you do know you can add a password for your user name to keep people out Let's be serious here. My PC is in my home office so only my kid and wife have any access and they both know the password. But I can be a little paranoid sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Let's be serious here. My PC is in my home office so only my kid and wife have any access and they both know the password. But I can be a little paranoid sometimes. And whose fault is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 And whose fault is that? The little voices in his head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I always turn mine off. About 2 years ago a co-worker used to leave his on all the time. One morning after he left for work at 6am he got a call at work at 6:30am that his house was on fire. His wife and 2 young children (4mth old and 3 yr old) perished in the fire. The cause of the fire was electrical and it was the outlet that his computer was plugged into that had caused it. Granted, being an electrical fire it could have been a coincidence that it was the outlet that the pc happened to be plugged into but I am not taking any chances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBoog Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 One of my forensics guys here at work says the best thing to do is leave them on, and turn off the monitor (password protect always) if you will be away for a while. Monitors have a shelf life, the more you use them, the faster they eventually burn out. The theory behind leaving the CPU on is that the constant heating and cooling off can affect the mechanical parts through incremental expansion and compression with temp changes. Keeping the CPU on and well ventilated is the secret to longevity. Buying an extra internal fan or even simply getting a small fan blowing at the vent holes will keep things at a comfortable and stable temp. I am not sure how much of a difference it makes at the personal level, but he and his partner have anywhere between 35 and 110 CPUs on-line at anytime and they NEVER turn them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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