Poll
Question:
PC on/off?
Option 1: lways on
votes: 3
Option 2: urn it off when not in use
votes: 26
Option 3: sed to leave it on all the time, now turn it off
votes: 3
I'm just curious what peoples habits are. Myself for the longest time have always left the PC on 24/7x365 (unless away on holiday or away overnight etc..). I would reboot it every now and again but other than that it never got turned off. With the price of energy going up I decided for the last few weeks to start turning off in the evening to see how much I could save.
So, do you:
1. Leave it on 24/7x365
2. Turn it off every night/when not in use
3. I used to leave it on all the time but now I turn it off
Only have it on when I am using it or leave it over night if doing a new backup etc.
I used to just sleep it whenever not in use, but never shut down.
Now it goes into sleep during the day, and I generally turn it off when going to bed / going out. I think this has evolved as I have an annoying audio bug after waking from sleep that I've never bothered to solve.
It's certainly easier now startup takes seconds! I used to sleep it to avoid the long wait to get into windows.
On when I need it, as chaos says now it loads into windows in seconds there’s no issue in waiting for it
on 24/7 so all the games update as a when not when I open the relevant app and there are a lot of them now adays. Also its so I old it sometimes takes a few a attempts to boot lol.
Quote from: Evilntwisted;448208Also its so I old it sometimes takes a few a attempts to boot lol.
I know how it feels :D
I've always shut my PC down when not in use.
Probably the electronic engineer in me not wanting the PSU to go up in smoke whilst i sleep :D
Always have turned it off, even at Lan when I feel like I am the only one who does turn it off :)
Same, off, our bedroom is metre's from the PC desk and even on silent there is always something flashing or whirring. Laptop, I just shut the lid.
Your not the only one who does that a LAN mate
Quote from: RogueTaylor;448212Always have turned it off, even at Lan when I feel like I am the only one who does turn it off :)
you know people will be randomly turning your pc off now 🤣
Quote from: RogueTaylor;448212Always have turned it off, even at Lan when I feel like I am the only one who does turn it off :)
nope mine goes off as well, it was defo a thing to do with the amount of power trips in previous years
With the amount of power a modern PC draws and the price of electricity, turn it off. Now I need to get Dex to turn his off too!
Always off, unless I want to dowload some things overnight or have games update, which I don't do often since it causes me a rough sleep in anxiety-fueled thinking that my house will blow up:blink:
Does anyone else who actually turns it off have fast boot turned off, so it actually closes everything down properly?
Quote from: Mikep1212;448264Does anyone else who actually turns it off have fast boot turned off, so it actually closes everything down properly?
I do, and I turn everything off at the wall too.
I do, well I also turn it off at the wall as well now but I have fast boot turned off because at some point there was an issue with Ryzen CPUs and fastboot.