Does anyone keep their PC on all night ?

[poppins 10]

I sometimes leave mine on all night, it goes into a kind of 'sleep mode' after ten min, surely it dosen't cost that much to leave it on, it's on all day long if i'm at it or not.

[neeeeeeeeeek 10]

My attic computer is usually on all the time downloading stuff.

[Ann* 10]

I used to, because the security scans are set to be carried out overnight.

 

To save on electric, I've started switching it off at night, and letting AVG automatically scan when I first switch it on in the morning. Windows Defender scans automatically at different times, but that's set to real time monitoring anyway.

[mrmist 10]

If I do then I turn the screen off.

[Guest]

Server stays on (or at least it will when I get my house) 24/7 and just has all the power saving features turned on.

 

Main PC only stays on if I'm downloading something that takes along time. Otherwise I switch off at the plug, just powering down your PC doesn't turn it off....you can probably see keyboards, network cards etc lit up depending on the PC.

[RichD 10]

I only leave mine on overnight if i have big downloads going. If there's nothing that can't wait till morning it goes off. Same goes for when I'm out at work.

[torin8 10]

The estimated cost of leaving a single pc on overnight per year is about £100, so I guess you can make your own conclusions about per night...

[Joelc 10]

Most of the PC's in our house are left on all night, and the servers don't get turned off unless we have a power cut and the UPS runs out.

 

Joel

[Ghozer 112]

mine stays on 24/7, unless I need to shut down for maintenence, I even leave it on when im away for a week, so I can then remote access the machine

[sallonoroff 10]

...and the servers don't get turned off unless we have a power cut and the UPS runs out.

 

Now that's some serious setup... serverS (plural) and a UPS... your home seems like it might be geek heaven...

 

 

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[D2J 10]

I would only really leave mine on to download at night as I was a shared connection with 4 others so I just used to leave it running overnight for big downloads

[Guest]

The estimated cost of leaving a single pc on overnight per year is about £100, so I guess you can make your own conclusions about per night...

 

You should be able to work it out. Get a power meter from Maplins then work out how much it costs you.