Very much agreed! I built the desktop with a balance of performance/price/efficiency in mind, but was very dismayed by the number of entries in the event log whenever I unplugged it after shutting down (once I caught on to this). I don't have any PCI-e devices besides WLAN in the PC, don't have Intel Smart-Connect enabled, and made the build with LV-DDR3, an SSD, and a Gold-rated PSU... that, and the fact that over ~65% of the main-use lighting in my home is now efficient LED-lit allows me to sleep well without unplugging the strip the PC is on...
Plus, I recognize that unplugging a DVR interrupts intermittent updating of the guide/scheduling and places spin-up/down wear on the HDD, and the desktop I've built run on over 40% less energy with over 15-20% the performance of a comparable system. That's not to say I haven't looked into plug-in inverters for utilizing wind/solar (from the flare you've expressed, I bet you feel similarly [let's not delve into bitcoin mining]) energy capture.
I've made a fairly mindful transformation from bleeding-edge performance to reasonable performance increases with sight of energy consumption when planning improvements/upgrades and also reading reviews.
First, I am now moved with unalloyed happiness, to share, among the things I LOVE in life, learning and being able to contribute, may be the top two.:biggrin:
While at first I thought, “This must be an illusion, it’s too good to be true, protect yourself from buying into this amazing, so you don get hurt,” in the relatively short time I have been active on this site, I have already learned more than I EVER thought possible, simply because this place is uniquely populated by more brilliant, KIND, enriched, ELEGANT, AMAZING, GENEROUS humans than I can STILL believe. (And, the pain/tension=generating small contingency of assaultive malcontents I first encountered:|, seems to have disappeared!)
I MEAN IT. It is sooo nourishing, so thrilling. I wish all of life were more like this community!!!!!:biggrin:
And in YOUR meticulously evolved chops for living green and starving “
The vampire,' I think U could win sumthin! A Grammy at the very least!!! A Small Golden ATX Statue with Acanthus leaves. Sumthin!
Next, U bet, I went too fast seeing the “M” in Pentium M…..and stupidly got the system must be a lappy.
I am still using CFLs, still have half a carton (I always got them on eBay). My feeling despite I do know the advantages, is the LEDs are not finished evolving, plus, even tho, even now, U save over time, they are off the hook expensive, esp for the lumens I like in all lamps, cause I like lots of light.
YOU should be running some division in Consolidated Edison or other energy provider. Not that even you could bear/ get around the head exploding truth re America’s grid is anachronistic/ outdated by around a thousand years and the net impact of that.
Next, I am blown away you monitor logs. I hate logs. Partly, because I do not understand their content a lot, and so, am intimidated by them.
Good part, cause I determined long ago, to learn everything I could/can about my computers, make enlightened choices, etc. to preclude needing others to bail me out and preclude issues and the terror and feelings of helplessness they generate, and just being here, I am getting, while that is an infinite work in progress, I have actually managed to do that in real ways…..I mostly have no need to even look at logs. I think I might even have turned logging off in this new/used system.. Prolly not a good thing.
All of which leads me to this: I am not convinced whatever it is you saw in yr logs you attributed to issues unplugging yr systems from power source after proper shut down of windows……is attributable to the unplugging. My go to system of the moment AND ALL ITS PERIPHERALS ARE PLUGGED INTO MY SURGE PROTECTOR STRIP….. Even screens and printers continue to draw power after shut down short of unplugging.
Next, I delved a bit, and came upon this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090804075144AAmQf3X
Now that you are keeping yr award winning, energy efficient system plugged in ongoing, I guess you have no logs showing what you felt were accounts of bad things owing to unplugging, but boy, I would love it if you could put some of those up here, so that helpers here who understand their content in ways I do not, could peruse those and offer opinions!
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