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Turning off the PC

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You're not hurting anything. You may be wasting electricity, but it's dirt cheap, so leaving your PC off will not make much of a $$ difference. Leaving the computer on all the time is certainly more convenient than having to boot up any time you want on. This alone is often reason enough to leave your computer on all the time in our impatient world.
 
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Yeah bn11 is correct. Computer hardware is built to run all the time if need be. Windows isnt, and it can act a bit squirelly if you dont reboot every so often, but that's about all you'll hurt. They dont use squat for power either.
 
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There's also the issue of heat generated by your machine. Depending on the type of processor (*cough* Prescott *cough*) there are some machines that put out enough heat that your AC ain't gonna like it.

Granted that's probably more of an issue for idiots like me who have 4-5 machines running at once. :biggrin:
 
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BrutusMaximus;633260; said:
You can do a fanless setup, or you can just get one of the ultra silent 120mm fans.........cant even tell the thing is on.
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I just wanted to see what kind of temps I'd get out of the M if I went completely fanless. It's actually darn impressive (although the Core chips are certainly passing it by).

I even thought about making it a thin client, removing the hard drive, booting off of a RAM drive & just accessing the media on my server. :biggrin:
 
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TRON;633298; said:
How can you tell what the heat is comming from your pc?
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There are a number of utilities one can download that pick up the signals from the various thermal sensors on the motherboard, or your video card, and display the same. One nifty app of this type can, on appropriately equipped PCs, (and for most this applies withour doubt to the CPU fan) also allow controlled Fan speed.
It goes by the name "Speed Fan" and is available at http://www.almico.com
 
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