How often do you turn your PC off?

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Look out you're going to be told shutting it off won't save you money.
Why do you think I said it? ;) The nr.1 reason is the coilwhine from the gaming rig is high pitched, and I can't stand high pitch noise. The Laptop sounds like a vaccumcleaner.
 
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Look out you're going to be told shutting it off won't save you money.

Don't word others without proper understanding in their direct.

Every company with multiple pcs running, every education facilities, every high tech company running multiple servers and devices know the damage and cost of hardware failure over consumption cost.

You are a nob with an opinion, one which is incorrect.

God bless and have a nice day, get over it and more so your wrong self, in this regard
 
Why do you think I said it? ;) The nr.1 reason is the coilwhine from the gaming rig is high pitched, and I can't stand high pitch noise. The Laptop sounds like a vaccumcleaner.
My liquid cooler keeps my PC fairly quiet. The video card fans are like a low hum. The other fans are 240mm fans and don't make any noise its nice. When I first got them I thought they where not on lol.
 
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Energy is expensive, the world has limited resources. You turn your PC off unless it is required to stay on.
How often do you turn off your car?
 
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My liquid cooler keeps my PC fairly quiet. The video card fans are like a low hum. The other fans are 240mm fans and don't make any noise its nice. When I first got them I thought they where not on lol.
It's actually my PSU that is coilwhining. The fans on the Noctua DH-15 is really quiet! I just haven't gotten around to RMA it yet. My Video card is deadquiet except when I play something that goes about 70C. Else it seem to be passive cooled.
 
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gaming pc always gets turned off when im done gaming, with my ssd it turns on in less then 10 seconds anyway.
 
Don't word others without proper understanding in their direct.

Every company with multiple pcs running, every education facilities, every high tech company running multiple servers and devices know the damage and cost of hardware failure over consumption cost.

You are a nob with an opinion, one which is incorrect.

God bless and have a nice day, get over it and more so your wrong self, in this regard
Buckle up kids its going to be a long one.

Ok lets do some basic math for you. We will round down to 50$ to keep it simple for you. My bill was 100$ I stopped using the pc for the entire month while continuing using everything else like I norm do and my bill went down to 50$ so that's a savings of 50$. I would use my PC for between 6 and 8hrs in a day. We will use 8. So if I left it on 24/7 it would triple my usage because 8x3=24. So the cost for the month would be 150$ because 3x50=150. The cost for a year would be 1800$ because 150x12=1800. Instead of 600$ because 50x12=600. So by doing what I normally do instead of leaving it on 24/7 I'm saving 1200$ a year because 1800-600=1200. Please tell my how my usage would be cheaper than having to replace a cheap part if it happens to die. I could build an entire new PC every year with that money and still have a couple hundred left over. I have had this pc for 4 years or more at this point and the only thing I had to replace was my gpu because someone didn't pack crap right when we moved(hint it wasn't me) and a psu because the wife put a box behind my PC and blocked the psu vent and it cooked itself. So lets just say its only been 4 years. 4x600=2400 so it has cost me 2400$ to power it all these years. Now if I left it on 24/7 the bill would be 7200$ because 4x1800=7200. That means I saved 4800$ because 7200-2400=4800. Now lets add in the cost of the 2 parts I had to replace just for shits and giggles. Psu was 130 was on sale for 100 and had a 25$ mir making it 75. The gpu cost me 200 to replace. So I spent 275$ replacing parts because 200+75=275. That means my total cost for use over the years was 2675$ because 2400+275=2675. Please tell me how 2675$ is more than 7200$

You sound as stupid as the people who try to say renting a modem from a cable company is cheaper than owning it.
 
Never turn off my Desktop. It runs 24/7. My Surface I usually shut down just because it's not plugged in all the time (even though the battery can last a couple days in sleep mode) and it starts up and shuts down super quick.

I don't really use my laptop since getting a surface, so it been off for a while, but it doesn't have the greatest cooling so I did shut it down when no in use. When it was still under warranty I had to send it in because the Wifi stopped working, they said it was heat damage to the antenna.
 
Never turn off my Desktop. It runs 24/7. My Surface I usually shut down just because it's not plugged in all the time (even though the battery can last a couple days in sleep mode) and it starts up and shuts down super quick.

I don't really use my laptop since getting a surface, so it been off for a while, but it doesn't have the greatest cooling so I did shut it down when no in use. When it was still under warranty I had to send it in because the Wifi stopped working, they said it was heat damage to the antenna.
How do you like the surface?
 
How do you like the surface?

I love it. Best purchase I have ever made. Since I bought it I don't touch my laptop. Does everything my laptop did in a smaller form factor and easier to carry around.

I have never been able to get in to using an iPad or Android tablet because to me, those things are really only good for games. If I need to get real work done they aren't worth it. The surface give you a portable PC so I can work on my Desktop and pick up where I left off on my surface.
 
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I love it. Best purchase I have ever made. Since I bought it I don't touch my laptop. Does everything my laptop did in a smaller form factor and easier to carry around.

I have never been able to get in to using an iPad or Android tablet because to me, those things are really only good for games. If I need to get real work done they aren't worth it. The surface give you a portable PC so I can work on my Desktop and pick up where I left off on my surface.
Good to know. The wife like the size of her android tablet but doing anything besides browser shit and games was a pain in the ass. So I got her a cheap laptop(bad idea) its fairly slow so I was thinking of getting her a surface at some point.
 
Good to know. The wife like the size of her android tablet but doing anything besides browser shit and games was a pain in the ass. So I got her a cheap laptop(bad idea) its fairly slow so I was thinking of getting her a surface at some point.

Ya i tried the Android and iPad route and that's really all they are good for, browsing and games. I was excited to have a small form factor device to carry around, hated them both.

The surface is super quick and runs Butter smooth. I use Photoshop and Audition on it without a hiccup.
 
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Ya i tried the Android and iPad route and that's really all they are good for, browsing and games. I was excited to have a small form factor device to carry around, hated them both.

The surface is super quick and runs Butter smooth. I use Photoshop and Audition on it without a hiccup.
Her new phone will be here tomorrow. So I'm hoping it will hold her over lol. May get her the surface as an Xmas gift.
 

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