Home PC do you turn yours off at night?

Millionaire

Mines always switched off unless I need to run something.

Never have problems cold booting PC's, My MacBook does it in around 40secs and my Win 7 PC in around 50secs. It shouldn't take minutes.

Lil306

Millionaire wrote: »

Mines always switched off unless I need to run something.

Never have problems cold booting PC's, My MacBook does it in around 40secs and my Win 7 PC in around 50secs. It shouldn't take minutes.

Unless it's a server, then it takes forever lol

I need to put an SSD disk in my PC, takes about 20 secs to boot up and I hate it

Millionaire

Lil306 wrote: »

I need to put an SSD disk in my PC, takes about 20 secs to boot up and I hate it

What are you running to get a 20sec boot-up?

bob_man_uk

my pc is always off when it isnt used and as much as i hate "the news of the world" paper, their offer last week for the computer plug was really invaluable, whilst i pretty much always turn my pc off i always forget about my monitor, those little led's still use enrgy :P so yeah, having it turn off when the pc is off really helps to save electricity.

since i pay up front for my energy i REALLY dont like leaving things on that i have to pay for and im not using, the energy i'd save by not having it on is far better used by say, the fridge/freezer, which always have to be on.

theres argument people use about leaving the a pc on all the time uses less energy than having to start up and shut down a pc, this is true in the sence that for 1 minute the energy used to turn on a pc is higher than the continuous running of a pc for 1 minute. however, you cant argue that just turning it on uses more energy than having it running (which is the common argument) leaving a pc on for 24 hours is not going to use less energy than just turning on my pc... or am i missunderstanding that common argument for leaving a pc on all the time?

exup

Millionaire wrote: »

What are you running to get a 20sec boot-up?

ahh - the boot up - its looking like the PC equivalent of the 0-60 time :cool:

ddoris

Think the op has f****d off

Lil306

Millionaire wrote: »

What are you running to get a 20sec boot-up?

2GB Ram, Dual Core AMD and an IDE HDD. It's probably less in reality but I'm too impatient to wait.

I've got a SATA HDD but it's crap and takes longer to boot. I actually think it's busted too

Bit annoying, my IDE drive is my good "old faithful" I've had it about 6 years with temps around 60-70c and it keeps on taking it

I'm putting the main PC into a Zalman1000GS case as it's getting ar too hot (case is like 3 years old with 1 fan)

I'm then building a server rack and chucking in a few 1u/2u setups for some custom builds at a datacentre

before all that I'm going to get a fire extinguisher

safety isn't my middle name

Millionaire

exup wrote: »

ahh - the boot up - its looking like the PC equivalent of the 0-60 time :cool:

I'm just curious in Lil306's setup.:D

Most PC's I've seen posting around 20sec times already have SSD's with Top End Processors in them.

Lil306

Millionaire wrote: »

I'm just curious in Lil306's setup.:D

Most PC's I've seen posting around 20sec times already have SSD's with Top End Processors in them.

I'll switch it off now and time it how long it takes

tsimehC

I regularly turn off my PC, it loads up in about 25 seconds with Windows 7 and it's not exactly a high end PC either.