Leaving your PC on slows the cpu down??? HAAHAHHAHA

Wow this is a REALLY REALLY old thread... last time i shut down my PC everynight was like a year ago or probably more, i always always leave it on every single night.

I leave all my stuff running 24/7, its never done any harm. Naturally, you want to enable power saving on monitors and so forth, but that's it. I once had my Linux box have an uptime of 142 days.

If you are running a newer PC and have ACPI funcitonal correctly on all your devices you can drop the usage of joice to almost nothing when it's asleep. It is true if it's off, less juice but if left on with the condtions above you will not use that much at all compare to Win9x.

But from a purly power consertive view off is better but in the above case not by too much.

I generally turn my off at night but due to my increase downloading (which takes days for one file...) I've left it on for days recently too.

Oh, but leaving it on will make it slower!!!

I never really shut down my computer, but I have noticed it getting slower. Not sure if it's because of not shutting it off, or leaving AIM on all the time! (Hahaha!) Or if I just have a virus. But my computer is also crap, so. I'm not too sure! I need to get new parts for this computer really bad anyway, and I can't even play WarCraft 3 on it anymore....