gus

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right people my boy thinks its cheaper to leave his computer on for 13 hours then it is to shut down and restart


can any one confirm or deny this

mad dog younge

it is cheaper to leave it on all the time .dont ask y ,but i save by leaving my on

gus

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doesnt make sense to me

GTechR

Sounds like the light bulb urban myth to me, which is total bollox...

They actually dispelled that myth on mythbusters the night on dicovery channel, no offence to Mad dag, but i cant see it myself.

GARETH T

turn it off

gus

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sweet this is more like it


now lets let him have it

pa_sjo

It's complete bollocks, however it is better for the hard disk in your machine to not be spun up/spun down daily.

gus

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ooo i cant wait for him to turn that crappy music (if its what you can call music) down and come down stairs



what a lecture he gonna get

Warren

Gus,

I've just been involved in a 15K plus desktop rollout of some software called Night Watchman, this product workouts carbon foot prints etc and most of all power saved by putting the desktop into standby or shutting down.

It's the Hard disk and DVD rom that sucks the power and unless the drive powers down after 30 minutes or less you an't saving anything by leaving it on 24/7

Sad I know but if you give me the make and model of your device I can tell you what your not saving by leaving it on......

Cheers, Warren

matts1

"(if its what you can call music)" Gus, you'll be swapping the S1 for a rover with a blanky and your trainers for some slipper if you carry on like that

As my old man would say (from the comfort of his lazychair with feet tucked up firmly in his slippers ), when you pay the bills, you can leave it on for as long as you like,

gus

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all i know is its a advent something or other


you cant get in his room due to the mess on the floor, so ne means to check

gus

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if you could hear it you wouldnt call it music either, i have a very wide range in music but this is just people screaming into a mic

MattyRST

How many times did i hear that when i was living under my dads roof.................Now hes living under my roof !!!!! The shoes on the other foot..........

Dannn

And I thought I was a geek

Ginge !

fuck that,,,, the best thing i EVER done was move out,, fuck letting thr cunt who threw me out live with me

i wont even let him visit for more than 4 hours when hes here let alone have him fucking sleep here again


the ONLY time i visit him is when i have to get something or i need to wash my hands after working in my garage

Thrush

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What about putting it to "sleep" (standby) - does this cost more or less than switching it off and turning it on all the time.....?

Lee Reynolds

This phrase is the biggest bag of bollox ive heard in my life....

Lee Reynolds

Ginge !

must be bad to call your own dad a cunt

JohnnyB

whats best for the computer is leave it on or leave to off, warming and cooling down is not whats best.


but modern main boards should be totaly fine.


my advice is turn of, but not every time you make a cup of tea

purple_fiesta

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-031-EN

Ive gone for one of these, Keeps the computers fans running after shut down to cool everything down before tottaly turning off

Alex_86

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well,the computer is taking allot more power when is turned on, than it uses when its just running on idle.
it all depends on what you running? (set up on the computer)
you could turn the hdd off if you right click on the
desktop
go to screen saver
then Power

then you could decide to turn off hdd after so and so,and computer so and so

and so one.

....and so



and so one

but it aint using allot of you thinking that

400w power supply is not using 400w at all time


i have hmmm.. think its 9 hdd on my server, they use around 100w

so it aint much

but god night

zippyobrien

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thats the same theory wih your hot water boiler (old style, ) i leave our hot water tank on all day now, as it cheaper than heating all the water up, then letting it cool, then heating again,


sorry for changing subject lol

nilrem

iirc i worked it out some time ago and there wasn't much in it... bt i have a more powerful pc, so wheather it would be too much differrent now... but warrren seem to have given the answer now anyway!

as for the lightbulb myth, its for strip lights only! as they take alot of power to start up, which is why you get ony a few at a time lighting up, but then only take a trickle to stay on! dunno what the mythbusters did... but they normally get the myth half wrong to begin with

big_wig_074

can i save petrol by leaving my car engine running 24/7??

slim20012

yeah should work lets write to mythbusters and ask them to check it out

St3V3_C

It will use more power left on.

Standby is a better option, but even so turning it off for half the day is going to save the most.


Tell your boy to stop being a smart ass and get his facts right

gus

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all boys are smart arses aint they?

i know i knew everything when i was younger, i know even more now

Alex_86

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well, offourse it would use more power if it was on 24/7 in a month or if you have turn it on and off 2 of those weeks

you cant really compare if you dont use the computer over 24 hours where you have 1 comp on 24 hours, and you are turning one on and off lets say every hour

so you have to look at the time aspect here too

Alex_86

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but basecly a computer that is on is using less power than a computer that is turned on and off