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24/7 with no sleep mode?

Rhezuss

Rhezuss

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Hey all, question about PC runing 24/7 without sleep mode...

Most of my PCs have been running like that: Sleep Mode OFF, computer at idle all day/night, screen off, good night...

I've been doing this since I can recall, checking stuff in the morning, letting the PC idling on the desktop and powering off the screen for the day until I come back home after work, all week long.

Is this good or bad? No issues so far in the last 10 years...
Should I use the sleep mode?
 
unless you really want to save a few pennies on electricity cost there's really no need. i do the exact same thing with my main desktop computer
 
My computer is about 9 years old now...Pentium 4 3.2GHz.

I used to have my computer go to S3 sleep on it's own after an hour's worth of inactivity. It would restore in seconds after I hit the space bar and was wonderful. Two things then happened, the video card died and I replaced the old CRT monitor with a ASUS widescreen LCD. Now, either the monitor or the nVidia 8400GS won't reinitialize the video after waking. As such, my computer has been running 24/7 for years now. I'd prefer the computer to sleep, but since it's in its own room it doesn't really matter. I like to keep bittorrents running anyway.
 
I would highly doubt you would ever experience issues. Its more a matter of electricity savings. Since I pay my own electricity I keep my desktop off when I'm at home, but keep my file server running for overnight downloads and such.
 
Rhezuss said:
Hey all, question about PC runing 24/7 without sleep mode...

Most of my PCs have been running like that: Sleep Mode OFF, computer at idle all day/night, screen off, good night...

I've been doing this since I can recall, checking stuff in the morning, letting the PC idling on the desktop and powering off the screen for the day until I come back home after work, all week long.

Is this good or bad? No issues so far in the last 10 years...
Should I use the sleep mode?
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It's perfectly OK to do this. You're using more power than you have to, but that's about the only harm.
 
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