Restarting and shutting down your pc every night makes your OS get into the habit of it and reboots/boot-ups will be much better than if you were to leave your pc on for a while and try to reboot.
Restarting and shutting down your pc every night makes your OS get into the habit of it and reboots/boot-ups will be much better than if you were to leave your pc on for a while and try to reboot.
Restarting and shutting down your pc every night makes your OS get into the habit of it and reboots/boot-ups will be much better
psu wears out quicker if its on, hard drives dont make a difference (they may spin longer, but the initial spinup/down wears them just as bad), but apparently the components on the mobo last longer if its on (a friend once told me that 10 hours idle = 1 cold boot)
leaving it on is better. faster
vista loads your most used stuff into RAM cache and when you reboot it has to recreate this.
I turn it on when I get home (around 4 in the afternoon) and turn it off when I go to bed (about 11). I could leave it on overnight if I wanted to, but I really don't see the point of it.
I always turn mine off at night. No point in leaving it on and wasting electricity.
I believe turning your pc off at night is better for the OS but doesnt do any better or worse for the hardware. The hardware now days can take alot. Restarting and shutting down your pc every night makes your OS get into the habit of it and reboots/boot-ups will be much better than if you were to leave your pc on for a while and try to reboot.
electricity isnt that expensive.
it costs well under $100 a year for a good pc to run 24/7
It is not a good idea to leave your PC on 24/7. I am an electronics technician by trade. The electrolytic capacitors on your motherboard, in your other cards, and in your power supply age continually when powered up. Also your hard drive is a motor which wears out. Plus your electricity bill. Don't leave it on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats why you buy decent hardware
dell desktop psu failed after 24 months
hp motherboard after 5 years
however compaq server (high end hardware) has been running 24/7 for ~10 years. One disk failure, but thats to be expected.
One of my professors made a good point one day in class. He said that he leaves his computer on continuously and he made this analogy, "How many times have you turned on a light and the bulb flashes and burns out? Now, how many times have you seen a light bulb burn out when it is turned on?" So he's stating that each time a computer is turned on, a surge of energy is sent very quickly into your system, and the risk of that surge of power damaging a component is less if you leave it on.
I, on the other hand, turn off my computer every night just because I can't sleep with it on.
But in this case it doesn't work - it's just that the filament, when cold, has much lower resistance than when it's warm, meaning that there will be, well, plenty of current running through that very instant, so when it's cold the current heats the filament up so fast it, well, blows. It doesn't apply in case of computers, though, since we aren't pushing even nearly as much current/volts through a microchip as we are through light bulbs, and we don't even let them heat up that much, so it hardly makes any significant difference here - not to mention that, unless you have a really screwy PSU/mobo, it won't even let enough current to run through the components to actually damage them or cause any significant wear.and he made this analogy, "How many times have you turned on a light and the bulb flashes and burns out? Now, how many times have you seen a light bulb burn out when it is turned on?" So he's stating that each time a computer is turned on, a surge of energy is sent very quickly into your system, and the risk of that surge of power damaging a component is less if you leave it on.