Depending who you ask, turning off your PC at night is either a good way to save electricity or a good way to speed up the deterioration of your hardware.
Or ever? Do you only reboot if a driver update tells you too, or Windows starts acting up? Here are our answers, let us know yours in the comments. And be kind to your RGB gremlins.Pretty much every night, otherwise I put into sleep mode. I used to put my old rig into sleep mode every night because I didn't want to wait forever for it to boot up, but after I built my current rig with Windows 10 and an M.
My main desktop also stays on. It's used for things like testing GPUs, running other gaming benchmarks, playing games, and just about anything else I don't do on my laptop. It also has about 8TB of storage available, and it's where I store all the documents, data, and other doodads I'm working on. If I turn it off and then go to my laptop or another desktop and want to view some files, I can't and end up having to go turn it on.
Actually, there's another oddity with the desktop—if I power it off or put it into sleep mode, it turns back on within the next 10-15 minutes. I've tried disabling wake on LAN and any related items that might cause this behavior, but to no avail. None of my other PCs or desktops do this, but the only way I can guarantee it stays off is to flip the power switch on the PSU or surge protector—but the latter isn't an option because my modem is connected to the same power strip.
I guess that makes me the bad guy. The person with the most PCs also happens to be the least environmentally conscious. It probably helps that I don't live in a state with crazy power costs.My dad always left our family computer on, growing up, so for a long time I never thought much of it. That was just the norm, and there was something fun about rebooting a PC for the first time in months. I even remember in IRC, folks would post stats about how long since their last disconnect.
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