Leave On, Sleep, Hibernate or Shutdown

Always turn mine off if leaving the house, surge protector/power switch off.

Main reason the occational power outages here, average once a month, sometimes more, sometimes less. I have a UPS, but still.

alphanumeric said:

Um are you sure about that? The only thing on in the power supply when you power down the PC is the auxillery +5V supply. It's a 5V 2 A power supply, thats only 10 watts. Thats a lot less than what your PC uses when it's turned on.

When you shutdown the PC it's still using around 2.1 watts (same as hibernate). Sleep mode uses around 5.

tw33k said:

When you shutdown the PC it's still using around 2.1 watts (same as hibernate).

But hibernate/shut down still uses less power than a running PC.


At least hibernate allows for a quicker boot time.


Thanks to this thread, I had another go at using hibernate again. But the damn thing is like a naughty child, it won't stay asleep...

tw33k said:

When you go to bed at night, what do you do with your PC?

I put it in sleep mode, but I usually close down everything but Trillian first. I reboot when updates call for it, and do a full shutdown maybe once every two weeks.

smarteyeball said:

tw33k said:

When you shutdown the PC it's still using around 2.1 watts (same as hibernate).

But hibernate/shut down still uses less power than a running PC.


At least hibernate allows for a quicker boot time.


Thanks to this thread, I had another go at using hibernate again. But the damn thing is like a naughty child, it won't stay asleep...

Definitely, shut down and hibernate use far less energy than a running PC. My original point was that people think shut down uses 0 power and that is just not true. The arguement, in my opinion, that "shut down saves power" doesn't hold water.

My PC at work won't go to sleep either. I'm pretty sure it's the wireless keyboard & mouse that's the problem. I'm gonna test it when I get the chance.

noobvious said:

tw33k said:

When you go to bed at night, what do you do with your PC?

I put it in sleep mode, but I usually close down everything but Trillian first. I reboot when updates call for it, and do a full shutdown maybe once every two weeks.

I do very much the same.

shutdown at bedtime unless doing a large download, have the system set to not sleep until after the download completes. i let the system go to sleep during the day if i am doing something else for a while, hibernation is disabled.