Shut Off Your PC When Not In Use
As far as energy consumption today is concerned, it would be best to make sure that most of your electrical gadgets, computers included, turned off and unplugged. We all know that most people can do a lot of things with their computer and apparently people have forgotten to turn them off. This stems from continuous download wherein being online longer can let them finish their downloads especially if they are movies.
Others however forget to turn off their desktops. Some reason out that if you leave your computer on, at least you can just turn on the monitor and you can immediately get some work done or go surfing for anything while online. Many would say that this is a lame excuse but it all depends on how people look at it. Besides, they are the ones paying the bills right?
But today, it is not just about paying bills. It is also about caring for the overall hardware maintenance and mileage and doing our own little thing as far as conserving energy. Most computers today are said to be energy efficient but that can be pushed all the more if we know when to shut down our computers.
This is not just for home-based users. This also includes office-based where dozens of computers are being used today for business. There will be break times where people can simply turn off their computer when they will not be used. A little effort like that really does a lot when it comes to energy saving issues today.
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#1. June 20th, 2008, at 7:00 PM.
Actually, the logic in this argument may sound illogical at first. You will greatly improve the maintenance and life of your system if you leave it on forever without once turning the “off switch.” You rarely turn off and unplug most of the electrical appliances at home, what makes the pc any different?
This is something we learned in first year of electronics engineering masters degree studies and it surprised everyone, until we did the complicated electrical energy equations proving our professor’s argument for the homework.
It takes a huge amount of electrical energy to turn on a well-loaded computer with many energy-eating programs that demand huge amounts more of electrical energy. And it takes an equally huge amount of electrical energy to power down your running processes and finally probably the largest spike in electrical energy to turn off your well-loaded system. The system’s hardware sincerely “dislikes” all of these maximum high electrical hits each time we turn on and turn off our systems.
The smart move when you’re leaving for the day is to power down all your running processes and log off of Windows; then, you should turn your monitor off; then, leave your system in that constant, low-power consumption state which your hardware loves until you’re ready to use it again.
You avoid the two largest spikes in electrical energy that wear and tear away at your hardware that way - turning it “on” and “off” is the single, most stressful experience on your hardware and should be avoided whenever possible.
Happy Computing!
-jd