PSA: Save money, put your PC to sleep at night!!

[BoomerD]

Please excuse my mathcad:
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You might save that much money if you SHUT OFF TWO or THREE modern computers that otherwise would be idling 24/7 for a month

As other's have pointed out, OP's energy savings are coming from elsewhere. My estimate puts his savings at closer to $4-6

So why did you bump a year old thread?

 

[yottabit]

So why did you bump a year old thread?

Wow truthfully I have no idea how I ended up here, that was a complete accident. let it sink!

And I just realized he said bi-monthly, so he may have saved $10 from sleep

 

[crownjules]

I never saw the point of sleep/hibernate versus just turning it off completely, unless you really really really need to save the ~10 seconds of boot-up time.

Time is money.

edit: Whoah, didn't see the necro.

 

[halik]

For the last 2 months I have set my PC to sleep every nights instead of leaving it on 24/7 and yesterday I received my bi-monthly power bill.

I saved $22.50 a month on electricity just by doing this. My power rate was $0.11612 kWh

Wow, I did not expect this much saving.


And for those who are going to flame me for posting the obvious, I included a monetary figure so people can see how much can be saved.

That is all.

How does your pc draw 250watts in idle?

Holy fuck i posed in this a year ago and forgot. Doh!

 

[geecee]

Holy fuck i posed in this a year ago and forgot. Doh!

Funny, I was about to post and noticed the same thing. 😛

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Funny, I was about to post and noticed the same thing. 😛

But then you did post!