Poll: Leave computer on all the time or shut it off diligently when not in use.

[The Dancing Peacock]

I don't pay my electric bill, so I leave it on 24/7 Win 98 used to have to be rebooted at least once a day. I run SETI too, so I want to have it going often. Win 2K not nearly as often, but I always reboot before I burn a CD though. I think I have a memory leaks somewhere. Cuz after a few days it will slow down and have less RAM available.


late.


TDP

 

[RipRidah]

off
I can't afford the extra dollar it'll cost me in electricity

 

[focusyn]

dang i think the last time i turned it off was.... never....

 

[lepper boy]

24/7......... and case fans? I can't sleep anymore if I don't hear the dull roar of fans when I sleep......

 

[prodigy]

I'm like lepper boy, it's hard to sleep when it's perfectly quiet. It drives me nuts, I'm too used to the sound of my fans.

 

[bastula]

ditto.

 

[Zucchini]

acoustic foam + low rpm/large fans so i can sleep at night

 

[psykohog]

Off. It's the darn fans.

 

[SVTPower]

I think I shut mine off once... can't remember though, ah yes it was when I was moving to a new house. If I had more then a 450 UPS I'd have left it on

 

[Asha'man]

24/7

Asha'man

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

i hate the damn fans on my computer. i think i'm getting hearing damage from these cheap mofos.

 

[Taz4158]

Leave it on wih the odd reboot to reclaim resources.

 

[Pyxis]

I leave it on 24/7 and reboot about once a week.

 

[NakaNaka]

Ah yes mine stays on 24/7/365

Great for crack and even when Im gone, other people in the household use it.

Plus im in an appartment building where they pay for the gas and eletric

 

[Missus]

We leave ours on all the time...
Need to with the cs server...

 

[SpongeBob]

When you have 3 Case fans and a loud ass FOP32 it's kinda hard to sleep at night with it on, otherwise it would be on all the time.

 

[gittyup]

I like to give my wittle puter a sleepy bye.

 

[Emulex]

only thing that sleeps is my precious flat panel display

TA-RC5

 

[radiocore]

24/7

 

[ArkAoss]

3 sys, 24/7 and I swap out cdrom drives with them on.. except the server which doesn't have a cdrom, but there I hot swap the network cards, freesco is so resilient.
One system doesn't even have an on off swith.. any where.

 

[iamwiz82]

the fans are relaxing to me. I have 5 80mm and 2 60mm, and then a fop32. its peaceful.

 

[imhotepmp]

emos


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[imhotepmp]

24/7, another vote for rc5

imhotepMP

 

[Electric Amish]

24/7 pretty much. I turn off the monitor and speakers, tho.

It's running Seti

amish

 

[paradox0521]

24/7 - got a web and ftp server running and my room gets hotter than hell in the summer time too