Do you run your WC systems 24/7?

[lyl]

Just as title says... Explain! (pumps, reasons, etc)

[CedricFP]

Yes.

No explanation - I just do.

[anubis_is_evil]

loved in the front computer all the time, got nothing to do thought...played in many forum liked this..also loved playing online games and do folding all day....never get bored when i'm in front my computer LoL

just switch to DDC3.2 that turn out pretty hot on the base...so i give it a 6mm fan from my old AMD stock cooling....

[exe163]

All day but night.

[inCore]

Yes, I'm on it during the day and it crunches during the night (and the day). I only turn it off when I leave my apartment for a weekend etc., but maybe that's being overly paranoid too.

[DaMulta]

I've left for a week.

I have done this on phase

tec I turn off when I leave the room.

[NysoO]

Na, turn the computer off when not using it. During nights etc. Just consumes a lot of electricity. Not good for the environment as well as being good for your wallet.

[fallwind]

24/7/365 here, well except for the odd extended power failure...lol! CPU and GPU run full load with WCG and F@H.

[lyl]

Na, turn the computer off when not using it. During nights etc. Just consumes a lot of electricity. Not good for the environment as well as being good for your wallet.

Dido... as well as I want to be there if something went wrong LC... Not that I dont have faith in it, or that anything has gone wrong. Too paranoid?

[faster3200]

Out of my 5 comps the only one that doesn't run 24/7 is a laptop. Of course 3 of them are servers so they really can't go down. My WCed comp runs close 24/7 I shut down a lot for swapping out parts and what not.

[DaMulta]

If I can get away without shutting down on adding parts I do that too.

Like install a PCI card or HDD DVD of that nature.

Thank you device manager LOL.

[NysoO]

Personally I think it's pretty stupid to let the computer run during the night if you are not using it. If you are folding or such I would understand but to just keep it on, looks bad in my eyes.

[zanzabar]

Na, turn the computer off when not using it. During nights etc. Just consumes a lot of electricity. Not good for the environment as well as being good for your wallet.

i think that its environmentally friendly it acts like a heater for my room and then the rest of the house dosnt need heat :yepp: so and it dosnt have exhaust or leaks through ducting :up:

[DaMulta]

I hate when I turn off my computer and it does not turn back on or boot back up.

So I dont turn it off. You say that does not happen that much. I say BS to many times to count I installed some junk or part had died when I was in windows just fine. Then I went to turn it off or reset and I'm banging my head on my desk......

24/7 no hibernation no turning off the HDD. Monitor does get turned off......


i think that its environmentally friendly it acts like a heater for my room and then the rest of the house dosnt need heat :yepp: so and it dosnt have exhaust or leaks through ducting :up:

I have almost ran the window a/c at night all winter...(I would open the window but the a/c unit is in the way LOL)...no heater needed lol.

[Gamer67]

24/7/365

[IFMU]

24/7/365

I rarely shut mine down. The only reason I ever do is when it's required restart for software or when I need to do some hardware tweaking/replacements.

I also run WCG the entire time my PC is up.

[Lagaaja]

24/7. No particular reason, I'm just used to do so. Atleast I don't have to start up my rig every morning :D

[warriorpoet]

F@H 24/7 for spcr

*dons flame suit*

[dM@n]

I used to, but my power bill was jacking up, so I turn my computer off in the night.

[theseeker]

I leave it on 24/7 unless I am leaving town.

[D-Cyph3r]

Na, turn the computer off when not using it. During nights etc. Just consumes a lot of electricity. Not good for the environment as well as being good for your wallet.

Same here really.... Heck I dont even like going to bed and leaving it on overnight to be honest.

[jollyjoker]

If my computer has something to do i leave it on , otherwise i turn it off at night.

[BertM]

no but comp is on 24/7. pump turns on automatic when it reaches 37 degree.
(in idle it doesnt go above 30 without cooling. )

[jasonelmore]

I leave mine on 24/7 with a swiftech apex ultima kit and system in sig. It folds while i sleep.

[stangracin2]

i don't trust mine yet. lol. i just got it setup xmas day.
(my first "real setup")
cpu loop only. soon to have NB also

[Demthios]

I put mine to sleep when I'm not using it or running any kinda of bench test.

[bmilos]

no but comp is on 24/7. pump turns on automatic when it reaches 37 degree.
(in idle it doesnt go above 30 without cooling. )

I like the auto pump action...

I shut it off unless my comp has something to do too.

So many fans, can hear it (the sweet hum) in bed...

[warriorpoet]

...So many fans, can hear it (the sweet hum) in bed...

See, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid :)

[PsYcHoNo0b727]

No for me. If I could I would though. Mine is just a little too loud and since its in my room and I'm somewhat of a light sleeper it would be really hard to get to sleep :rofl:. Not that is really really loud, just that I have can't fall asleep unless is quiet :D.

[WaterFlex]

My system has been running from the beginning of December :D

[CL3P20]

Uh..I 'tought tahts what WC was for.. :D

[Vapor]

The system I run my WC is on 24/7 but not watercooled 24/7 :D Basically WC'd except when I'm running aircooling on it :p: (probably 80/20 in favor of aircooling time right now--that's bound to change eventually though)

[moiraesfate]

Even if I had WCing, the answer would be no. I can't. I live in New Orleans where thunderstorms during the spring, summer, and fall make it unrealistic.

When I first moved here, I left my computer plugged in and we got hit by a freak thunderstorm. Ended up with a dead monitor though the computer itself was ok. I won't repeat the same mistake again.

If I'm not using it, its unplugged. It costs too much to replace parts if there's an electrical surge.

If it needs to have a defrag or virus check, its done when I'm around to turn it off or when there's no chance at all of precipitation.

[N3it1]

I dont understand people who spend alot time behind their pc's and shuts them off. It runs 24/7 till the day electricy brakes down or internet goes down YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

[WaterFlex]

I dont understand people who spend alot time behind their pc's and shuts them off. It runs 24/7 till the day electricy brakes down or internet goes down YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

You can buy UPS :cool:

[NaeKuh]

untested theory...

but i think all the dead DDC-2's you see most of them happened when people shut off there computer and tried to reboot.. :P

So yeah, i keep my system on all the time.. :T

But then again i WCG...

[moiraesfate]

I dont understand people who spend alot time behind their pc's and shuts them off. It runs 24/7 till the day electricy brakes down or internet goes down YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

You would if it meant that you didn't have to replace expensive computer parts all the time.

[Quad-Damage]

I shut my down at night, it's in my room, it's silent so i can sleep if I'm downloading the only time i ever leave it up for 2 or 3 days.

[SaiNRuB]

Im always seeding something so yeah its on pretty much 24/7.

[junkun13]

sometimes

[bmilos]

See, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid :)

I get much better tempos with 6 fans on my rad. I dont mind the hum, but I am still unsure about degradation of this chip. Don't want to run it 24/7 for 6 weeks, if you catch my drift..

[lyl]

untested theory...

but i think all the dead DDC-2's you see most of them happened when people shut off there computer and tried to reboot.. :P

So yeah, i keep my system on all the time.. :T

But then again i WCG...

Ah, this is the kind of info I was looking for...

[vinister]

Your computer is not 'destroying' energy when it is left on. The energy is merely converted to heat. If you are heating your house anyways, then its not really costing you much at all. The harder your cpu works, the less your furnace has to.

That being said, I still turn mine off once in awhile, just because its a little noisy and has lots of lights on it.

[CCC]

If my computer has something to do i leave it on , otherwise i turn it off at night.


same here, i shut it off if its not downloading or encoding something.

[haste]

24/7 if at all possible. i do shut it off if i am away for 2+ days.
ive been using the watercooling gear in my rig for 3 years now, still going strong.

[mstrmold]

No, it stays on over the weekend, but during the weekdays when I am at work, my rig remains off.

[Nemon]

On 24/7 , Off when gon on weekends

[Plan.B]

24/7, usually crunching

[Sparky]

Yes because my PC on 24/7 crunching :D


untested theory...

but i think all the dead DDC-2's you see most of them happened when people shut off there computer and tried to reboot.. :P

So yeah, i keep my system on all the time.. :T

But then again i WCG...

My old DDC-1 died in the middle of lan game after the system was running for a couple hours :shrug:

[RubberDuck]

I run mine 24/7 { runing Folding at Home } :yepp:

[exe163]

Not that there's any problem with running it non stop. But logic tells me giving the computer a rest once a while is a good thing.

[Baxxxter]

My PC is turned on when im home, even at night. Some of you cant sleep with pc on because of the noise...? I cant sleep in dead silence! :rofl:
I turn the pc off when i go to work, or when im away for a few days.

[gillbot]

Mine doesn't stay assembled long enough to get a full 24/7 run in.

[Xello]

While i'm stress testing the system + finding 24/7 overclocks then yeah, but when that's done it'll be sleep mode when not in use :yepp:

[Wisc]

I leave mine on all the time for the heat as well. I like my room being warm. Even in the summer when the Air is on, I want my room to be a bit warmer than the rest of the house. I as well had a few issues with lightning playing peek-a-boo with us, so I went and got the most expensive Battery Backup Unit I could find. The info on the box wasn't very helpful though. Some 120 minutes of run time turned into 12 for my rig. 20 if I shut off my monitor. *That use to be 18 but I guess I gained a few minutes since I took the fan off my video card and got it being water cooled now. And the fan is also off my northbridge as well. Water cooling can save energy! And it's much more quiet!

I do shut down if I'm gone for a few days though.

[hellcamino]

It's too expensive for me to leave mine on all the time, I actually bought a laptop to cut down my power bill and after nearly a year I'm already ahead on the bill. The laptop was about $1100 too.

[Aerodynamicist]

24/7 here


So many fans, can hear it (the sweet hum) in bed...

I've grown accustomed to the noise. I actually prefer the quiet hum of machinery to silence. :shrug:

[=Pseudo=]

24/7 around here --> folding :D

I just have a simple CPU-NB loop as I change a lot the VGAs :p:

[Oli4v]

nope I don't, in the early days when I wasn't WC'ing (blame on me ^^), I let it ran as much as possible to get as much credits with seti, rosetta, primegrid etc ... but since I'm of the thought that's useless power consumption and offcourse my parents ... I just run it when necessairy

and it runs sometimes 24/7 when I'm downloading a big torrent ..., longest uptime was like 3 days, and then I putted it like a half our down to cool down :p:

[Russ_64]

Folding 24/7 on CPU and GPU's.

[Rise]

i'm on air right now, but as soon as WC is up and running it will also be 24/7/366.

WCG + F@H 4 LIFE (literally)! :)

[Sparky]

It's too expensive for me to leave mine on all the time, I actually bought a laptop to cut down my power bill and after nearly a year I'm already ahead on the bill. The laptop was about $1100 too.

Our house is electric heat, so in the winter I'm really not using much more energy with my PC on than off, because the heat from the PC heats the room instead of the electric heat so that works out quite well :D

[scottc19]

I voted yes, but I turn it off at night so subtract one vote for yes and put it with no, I was thinking about benching only for some reason. I am sorry its early here and I'm not used to waking up early.

[jbartlett323]

i always have all my rigs run 24/7/365... really they don't seem to use too much power (at least my bill hasn't gone up more than a few bucks) and it makes sure that they get all updates and scans and whatever else it wants to do... started crunching a couple months ago so thats another reason...

Also in my expirience it is when you shutdown/ reboot that you will find any hardware failure... obviously it happens when its on too just not as often in my expirience... also shutting down daily puts extra stress on your drives as they park/unpark and go through the boot loading...

So i always recommend to everyone to leave it on all the time and reboot once a week and your golden! :up: never had anyone complain yet!:D

[NaeKuh]

Mine doesn't stay assembled long enough to get a full 24/7 run in.

and this is my fault?

Its your bad timing.. :rofl:

not my fault the moment YOU get finished setup, i get bored of something and send it to you..

[Gunlance]

24/7

I just hate not having it at the ready whenever I want it. And I fold.

[T_Flight]

I'm not gonna vote yet until I get mine all setup, but for my computers so far they never get shutdown. It just puts them through heat cycles and stresses things more. The surge of continuous powerups and downs isn't good for them. The only time they are rebooted is for software reboots or for routine matenence to get rid of dust and stuff like that.

Other than that I will shut them down when i go on vacations or trips away for extended periods during the Summer months. We can get nasty T-Storms in my area so I have to rpotect them.

All of my computers fold 24/7/365 unless I pause the clients on one machine for flight simming. Electricty? Blah! We have hydro plants and Nuke plants here. I pay my electric bill and no more than my 3 computers use it's not even worth looking at.

[MrToad]

It runs for as long as it stays together in one piece... which is approximately two weeks at a time, until I find something I want to add, substract, change, hack or slash :P

"Idle" is uncharted territory for my computer :P

[lyl]

Is standby really that terrible for you guys? Seriously, MS fixed it a long time ago!
:yepp:

[Jaivan]

Boinc 24/7

[Borys]

I rune my Computer auround 3/4 a day because i'm dl Anime ^^

[chris.y2k.r1]

I run mine 24/7 but I use Vista's sleep mode which essentially turns the computer off after 30 minutes.

On a side note, I've tried many times to get the BIOS option - Wake on LAN, wake on PCI/PCIE, etc., to work properly; however, I have yet to get it to work. If i try to access the machine while it's in sleep mode via CAT 6/Ethernet the machines never wake up. Has anyone figured out what the trick to this is? I've tried it with several different boards with no luck on any of them.

[Mankz_91]

My DDC-1 Pro has be on for 19hrs a day for the last 2 years.

Not a hitch as of yet.

[L7R]

Whenever I'm not gaming my machine is folding 2xGPU clients and one SMP client. I have two DCC355 pumps in my loop just for backup. There's two voltmodded 2900XT's , q6600@3,6GHz and NB in my loop and they've been under 99% stress for over a year now. I usually restart OS (vista 64bit) about once a week when updating security software/drivers etc.

[Carl_XII]

I run 7 computers 24/7 (Folding@home) and five of them are watercooled (CPU + GPUs and also NB on some of them). Never any water leakage problems so far (more than one years production on most setups).