Do you leave PC on all day/night or switch on/off as required?

[Lycanthrope]

All I'll say is Torrents dictates your life somehow"whistling:

Wait until you download torrents in minutes. It loses its hold on your life rather quickly

 

[Gouko_Tenrou]

My PC runs 24/7.

I only restart it every 1.5 - 2 weeks for a fresh reboot.

 

[addam]

I switched it off at the wall plugs. Is this not the same as unplugging? Or turning the plugs off at the main switchboard?

Yup, that should be just as good, as long as your plugs and cables are wired correctly

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Wait until you download torrents in minutes. It loses its hold on your life rather quickly

1: when did Google fiber come to South Africa?
2: Crushing envy.

 

[MetalSoup]

1: when did Google fiber come to South Africa?
2: Crushing envy.

1: He's in Sweden.
2: Agreed.

 

[Dohc-WP]

i leave it on 24/7, also hardware are more likely to fail from constantly switching your pc on and off, cause thats when the most current flows through your components.

 

[ViperGTI]

I only shut down when I go away for a weekend or a few days. Other than that, I leave everything running with Visual Studio, Outlook and Chrome open so I can continue exactly where I stopped the night before. I only reboot over weekends if I want to log into my gaming partition which runs on Windows 7 but since I haven't done much gaming recently, my PC was up and running for 3 weeks without a reboot until I updated my graphics drivers which caused my PC to freeze up.

 

[Hagan]

On and off when required - usually.

 

[z1oc]

My PC is on when im at home. when im asleep or awake. I download stuff at night most of the time. I turn off the unneeded fans when im sleeping or watching movie or on the interwebs

 

[Snare]

All I'll say is Torrents dictates your life somehow"whistling:

I ran into a deeply troubling dilemma...I simply ran out of things that I needed to torrent

Life seems devoid of purpose now

 

[Vixremento]

Always on whenever at home and off when I have to go into the office.

 

[addam]

1: He's in Sweden.
2: Agreed.

Okayy, that makes a lot of sense. Well, I'm moving to Europe then!

 

[Isengard]

I leave mine on, longest period it's been on was something like 42 days this year.

 

[Hiro]

Cool, so lots of you leave pc on. Guess I don't need to feel guilty about leaving it on for a full day

 

[DieGrootHammer]

I usually just leave my PC on 24/7. It's nice for those long downloads, and just because I'm really lazy...

 

[Hagan]

I would have left mine running, if my old GPU didn't sound like a tractor

 

[matt]

I leave my work pc and the one I use as a media centre on 24/7

 

[S1ght]

My HTPC stays on all day as it is also my download pc, but I built it with that in mind so all the components have low power consumption to try minimise cost.

 

[blaaislaai]

Work pc never gets switched off. Home laptop I never leave on... Only turn on when I get home from work.. Sometimes I will leave it on overnight for downloads to finish with auto shutdown enabled

 

[Cicero]

Pretty much try to switch off when I can. Although i work from home so my work pc is always on during the day, and only at the end of the day do I switch it off.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

I think if I had a laptop, it would be on and off all the time. It just seems like it's 'supposed' to be be, you know.