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intruding
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
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Macavenger
United States1132 Posts
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blue_arrow
1971 Posts
but i know this friend of mine who left his computer on for half a year after he finished building it; that happened like 4 years ago and everytime i go to his place i've never seen his computer shut off, so i dunno if he ever broke that 6 month record or if he ever broke his comp | ||
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LorDo
Sweden485 Posts
(07:05:33) (@LorDo) uptime: 5d 3h 44m 36s :: record: 3w 4d 2h 1s For this computer (or actually only since last time I reinstalled Windows) I'm not sure I've ever beaten that 42 day streak actually. | ||
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CrimsonLotus
Colombia1123 Posts
Don't want to sound like a troll or something, but don't you think it's a little irresponsible to leave your computer on so much?, i'm not an eco nut or anything, but i don't know what's so hard about turning off your computer when you don't use it, just to save a little power. | ||
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fanatacist
10319 Posts
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TL.net Bot
TL.net131 Posts
Do I win? | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
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Macavenger
United States1132 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:12 CrimsonLotus wrote: Don't want to sound like a troll or something, but don't you think it's a little irresponsible to leave your computer on so much?, i'm not an eco nut or anything, but i don't know what's so hard about turning off your computer when you don't use it, just to save a little power. Mind spends nights / other times I'm not using it in sleep mode, which takes almost no power at all. | ||
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intruding
157 Posts
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GHOSTCLAW
United States17042 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:14 TL.net Bot wrote: 156 days, 21:31 Do I win? I hope so <3 | ||
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tarpman
Canada718 Posts
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H
New Zealand6138 Posts
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MooCow
1434 Posts
lol @ TLbot ^^ | ||
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xmShake
United States1100 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:35 intruding wrote: so basically letting a computer ON for a long ass time doesnt increase hardware failure? i think even read somewhere that the booting process is actually more likely to cause failure...so if you let a computer ON for months, you won't boot often..so you might be better off.... Leaving the computer on has a negligible effect on hardware failure. Booting process used to be harmful because of the stress on the components..........in the early 90s. Now you can turn it on and off as much as you want with no ill effects. My computer is left on 100% of the time. I have gone several months without restarting. | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Guilty
Canada812 Posts
Generally i wouldnt worry too much about turning off your computer vs sleeping it a whole lot. Usually if somethings going to go wrong hardware-wise you'll run into it regardless of your power down routine. Personally i sleep my computer every night and only reboot it when updates require me to. | ||
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Sadistx
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
Record probably ~ month. | ||
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BaltA
Norway849 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:14 TL.net Bot wrote: 156 days, 21:31 Do I win? You don't count.  | ||
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sYz-Adrenaline
United States1850 Posts
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
yma@yma-desktop:~$ uptime 17:53:44 up 29 days, 8:24, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.27, 0.22 yma@yma-desktop:~$ Before that, I restarted the computer for some minor configuration change. There is a theory that electronic devices are designed to be switched on all the time as the surge of power when you turn something on does most of the damages to the computer. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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pachi
Melbourne5338 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:43 H wrote: I leave mine on for weeks at a time. thats because no one can be sure if your computer will ever turn back on | ||
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disco
Netherlands1667 Posts
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micronesia
United States24676 Posts
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
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ZhenMiChan
Netherlands1181 Posts
On October 22 2009 20:54 b3h47pte wrote: I turn off my computer every day before i go to sleep. IS that uncommon? Lol me too!! we must be special!! | ||
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Pawsom
United States928 Posts
On October 22 2009 20:54 b3h47pte wrote: I turn off my computer every day before i go to sleep. IS that uncommon? Lol Me too, but only because the humming noise it makes bugs me  | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
On October 22 2009 20:54 b3h47pte wrote: I turn off my computer every day before i go to sleep. IS that uncommon? Lol same. though, i have a laptop lol. | ||
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
This doesn't count as an interruption to the uptime though. | ||
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Chromyne
Canada561 Posts
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TL.net Bot
TL.net131 Posts
On October 22 2009 19:49 disco wrote: 12:16:28 up 351 days Ravage me, you magnificent beast! | ||
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
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disco
Netherlands1667 Posts
On October 23 2009 02:19 TL.net Bot wrote: Ravage me, you magnificent beast! I cheated, it's one of my servers, not my pc. I only wish Windows would run that long without issues. | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
On October 23 2009 05:17 Scorch wrote: Unless the computer is used as a server or has time-consuming operations or downloads running over night which can't be run during the day, I don't understand why it should run all the time. I hope the reason isn't lazyness. Even an idling PC will probably consume around 150-200W, and over night that's a lot. Not to mention killing your fan and harddrive. I turn off my computer when I'm done using it. I guess lots of people here are running torrents 24/7 or something. | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
On October 22 2009 14:14 TL.net Bot wrote: 156 days, 21:31 Do I win? welcome to TL, please visit http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=17883 before you begin posting ^_^ | ||
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Magic84
Russian Federation1381 Posts
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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
Unless restarting counts as shutting it off in which case I probably average about a month between restarts. Only hardware problem I have had hard drive failure and it was a Raptor after three years of being on 24/7. Raptors are known to have a pretty high failure rate so nothing surprising there. | ||
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Shauni
4077 Posts
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SonuvBob
Aiur21549 Posts
On October 23 2009 08:17 Chef wrote: Not to mention killing your fan and harddrive. I turn off my computer when I'm done using it. I guess lots of people here are running torrents 24/7 or something. Modern hard drives are made to be able to run 24/7. A cold boot is much harder on the drive than leaving it on, but I imagine the difference in shutdown + startup vs leaving it on for the extra 8 hrs is negligible. Also fan blades can't collect much dust if they're always spinning, :p but I imagine it does shorten their lives. I've never had a fan die, but I tend to buy high quality ones and usually undervolt them. | ||
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