Weekend Open Forum: Do you turn your PC off at night?

"Going green" be damned lol. I turn my computer off every night to save money. It's a pointless waste otherwise, except for a rare occassion when I have something to download over night.

At the wall…

It gets cold in my room at night and my computer doubles as a space heater. I also need the ambient noise of the fans to put me to sleep at night.

Suspend every time I get up from the computer and shut down if more than a few hours.

cut it off at night, the bright blue LEDs would keep my wife awake all night and would heat the room to a temperature I couldn't sleep with. During the day, it's only on when I feel like it or if the wife wants to surf the web. Fast boots, decent net, 380w/h usage, why keep it on like back in the day. I can't believe I used to keep my 750w PC on when I lived with my parents...

I always turn my computers off when I'm not using them.

Shut down before I go to work, turn back on when I get home after 14 hours. However, depending on if I'm working on any projects then I leave it on.

Probably depends on the component. However I also did hear specifically about GPU users who have long gaming sessions with their GPUs heating up, and then shutting the computer down immediately leaves all the heat inside the GPU. Some suggested to let it cool down first before shutting it off. Sorta makes sense.

Many years ago when I was reading a similiar article from Kim Komando
She said it was best to leave your pc on 24/7, 365 so it would get virus/malware updates as they arrived.
That was good enough for me,but since I also listen to the tunes on my pc to sleep by, I can't really turn it off. So yes, I leave mine on all the time. rebooting a few times a day.

I shut my pc down every night, my roomate leaves his on. Guess who has more trouble with their pc? He does, period. I know this is by no means difinitive but it saves energy and I feel more secure.

I have always been of the opinion, leave the computer on. Set the monitor to go into reduced power state. The main reason I choose leaving the system on, think of a light bulb, how often do they pop when they are on? Rarely. How often do they pop when you turn them on? Almost always.

I always hibernate my PC and laptop and at times i turn them off when I go to sleep. I find it unnecessary to leave my PC on unless im downloading overnight, Its difficult to sleep if my PC is on due to noise and lights in my PC.

Turn all four CPUs off. Turn off both routers and the cable modem (power bar #1) Turn off both printers and the scanner (power bar #2). However, leave LCD monitors in sleep mode (hate the power buttons).

Turn off my PC?

Why?

A nice playlist and then

shutdown -s -t 3600 && exit

and then ZZzzZZ

Mine is on 24/7 and on a UPS. I access it remotely. It goes to sleep after 20 minutes of non use though.

I turn it off when i'm done using it in general. Booting time isn't bad, and I feel it does 0 damage having to turn it on/off. That's like arguing that leaving your car on all day will keep it from breaking because starting it up. I would think leaving it on will wear your hardware out.

Well i don't turn my system off for days sometimes even weeks.
I never put it in sleep mode.

I usally let something download with Bittorent, upload stuff to youtube

or just run database checks and backups.