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    If you count putting it in sleep mode, every day.

    If you mean a complete shutdown, every few days, my computer seems to slow down somewhat if it goes days without a proper shutdown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logwyn View Post
    Never if I do then the experiments stop!!!
    The ghosts get released!!
    The folding stops!!!
    Seti stops!!
    I can't access it remotely if I do anyway.
    Haha Never heard of Seti@Home but recently some MMO-C member got me into watching JMGodier and now I am obsessed.
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    Every night or every time I leave for hour or more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister K View Post
    Haha Never heard of Seti@Home but recently some MMO-C member got me into watching JMGodier and now I am obsessed.
    Seti at home is kinda cool. Doubt I'll really do much good but yeah!

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    I never let my PC run over night.

    My work PC in the office is nearly allways running with a restart every friday.
    For emergency reasons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AryuFate View Post
    The last time I shut off my PC was about a month ago. It takes too long to start it up, so I just let it go into sleep mode instead. Some people swear that you should turn it off, while others say it's best to leave it on. Which boat are you in?
    As a computer repair specialist I'll settle this. while you can leave it on for a few days you do needs to shut it down regularly, refusing to shutdown can and will lead to issues, some of the most common being memory leaks, cache getting clogged with junk and cache over flow issues, Linux and MacOS are less susceptible to this but Windows is infamous for it. many issues i fix involve people never shutting down but rather using Sleep or worse hibernate ( Note on this DISABLE IT!! launch CMD in admin and paste this line powercfg /h off ) its a buggy mess that causes issues and waste drive space.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logwyn View Post
    Seti at home is kinda cool. Doubt I'll really do much good but yeah!
    I prefer GIMPS.. If only for the name..

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    I stopped hibernating my PC because of my Win10 bug not recovering from sleep mode properly. I have to shutdown every night now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Temp name View Post
    I prefer GIMPS.. If only for the name..
    I got bored with that one. Fun too though.

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    last night before i went to bed? Takes like 10 second to start up, why would i want it on all night unless i'm downloading a huge game? :s

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    Wtf why do you not shut it down?

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    Whenever I go to sleep obviously, no reason not to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cuafpr View Post
    not really, never have with any system I've ever owned and never had an issue. Occasionally I'll look threw the window on the side but it has never seemed that bad.
    Well, of course it is your computer and your decision. But having worked before with sensitive electronic equipment and systems, which had a mandatory schedule for cleaning for the reasons I mentioned, I would never do that with any of my computers.
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    I shut mine off every night before going to sleep. Leaving it on would only increase the energy bill further
    ...that's just my opinion, anyway.

    All of this cosmological stuff is too boring for me. I'd like to get Warcraft back, please. my thing is killing defias and orcs.

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    Whenever I'm done for the day. Power use is minimal, but why use power when I don't need to?

    As others have said - updated to SSDs. Start times are minimal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Temp name View Post
    My next rig will have a 256gb SSD for OS and a 1-2tb SSD for games. Currently I'm using a 1tb SSD for OS and games
    Nice, I was contemplating upgrading the HDD to a SSD for faster response time on loading etc for games but for now with all money i've spent on build I think I will let the HDD have it's time and upgrade to 2 or even maybe 3TB SSD when they hit sales again

    Side note: if people are using windows 10 I also recommend switching off Fast boot in advanced power options, also allows the machine to fully shut down properly.

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    Boots up in 2 seconds anyway, i shut it off when im not using it seems wastefull to leave it on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squeekyflaps View Post
    Nice, I was contemplating upgrading the HDD to a SSD for faster response time on loading etc for games but for now with all money i've spent on build I think I will let the HDD have it's time and upgrade to 2 or even maybe 3TB SSD when they hit sales again

    Side note: if people are using windows 10 I also recommend switching off Fast boot in advanced power options, also allows the machine to fully shut down properly.
    I upgraded to a 1TB SSD last year, when they were on sale for $89. Wow, what a difference! And it was the slower, 860 QVO Samsung model. Only SSD's now in any system I buy or build.
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    I shut it off daily. In fact, since telling windows to shut off only puts it in some kind of standby mode that let's it boot up quicker, I made a shortcut on my desktop to run the shutdown /s /f /t 0 command to ensure it shuts off properly.

    Running windows from an M.2 nvme ssd basically means booting up takes a matter of seconds anyway, and shutting it off properly ensures that RAM are correctly freed up in case any of the games I run suffer from memory leaks.
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    Yes i hate those sneaky account thieves that come to my house and steal my computer in order to steal some wow money! Those bastards! *shakes fist*

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