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How do I keep my computer on 24/7 without it eating up so much electricity?

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Like, I live with my G/F and son. My computer is located at my fathers house. I want to leave it on sometimes overnight for downloading purposes, but my father says it takes up too much electricity. Isn't there a power-save mode? What can I do. I just wanna leave it downloading or leave a program running over night. Help a bruttha out.
 
Thats one thing to do. You can also go into your energy conservation settings, and have the hard-drives turn off after so many hours of inactivity. You can also have your system go into standby witch saves electricity.
 


<< but my father says it takes up too much electricity. >>


has he got any proof substantiating this or it this just speculation on his part? :frown:
 
I have 9 computers running now. It's on 24/7

my electricity bill was $42 for 2 months without the computer.

Now it is $125 / mo ..

dang 🙁

eRr
 
err, do you have monitors on all nine of those systems? Do you leave the monitors on or is it just the computers most of the time?

 
There is nothing to speculate about. Computer does use electricity. It's a fact. &quot;too much&quot; depends on the person, so the father is not speculating at all.
 
Here in Los Angeles, California, USA, I'm paying 11.5 cents. But some folks are paying a lot more right now.
 
Consider running one of those CPU idling programs like Rain, CPUidle, WinCooler, etc. A lot of people use them to keep the processor cool during periods of low activity or idle, but what it does best is conserve power. Laptop users will attest to this.
 
Is it more efficient to leave a computer on 24/7 or about 8 hours a day, and reboot everyday? I heard that booting up takes up a lot more juice than leaving it on non-stop for a certain amount of time, and just shutting down the monitor. Anybody know?
 
I don't think powering up the computer once a day will use more electricity then idling your computer 16 hours of the time.. and of course it all depends on how much peripherals and the level of power saving mode. 2 of the most power draining equiptment in my system: the 19&quot; monitor and lots of HDs.

I was leaving my systems on, but since we have the power crisis in CA, I start to power on them when I have to.. or just use my notebook for some of the tasks, since the notebook will draw minimum power.. the sacrifice is of course the ditributed projects... Even SETI@home's official site is telling you to conserve energy 😛

 
Well, my system (system only) uses about 125W and it has all the bells and whistles. I would guess the average system would only use about 100W.
 
Get a high-speed internet connection.

download your stuff 20-100X faster than dial-up.

when download's complete:

turn off computer.

Dad can't compain about that
 
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