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Originally Posted by mrlarter
I've been told that computers are built to be left turned on. When your computer hits a stand by mode the power consumption is low enough that it makes little to no difference. Its the monitors that consume the most power (well CRT's anyway)
My desktop turns on but I sometimes turn it off at night, the fan keeps my girlfriend awake. And my laptop is off unless i am using it. But otherwise by desktop is always on.
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True to a certain extent, it takes a lot of power every time you hit that power button. Crt's do eat quite a bit of power compared to LCD's but there are also some processors that eat tremendous amounts of energy, like Pentium 4 systems drawing over 200 watts under load with no draw on the video card at all!
