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Do You Leave Your Pc Running All Night? Put It To Sleep And Save Cash

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 12:23 PM

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#2 rixware

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 11:33 PM

My back-ups run at night. $24 per year seems like a pretty small price to pay for keeping this task from sucking up valuable CPU cycles during my workday.

#3 JackGFuller

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 12:29 PM

As the actual cost of running your PC continuously is really not significant, how about running a Grid Computing application? it runs in the background, only when the CPU is available [Low priority], And this allows your otherwise idle computer to perform some very useful work. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

#4 GHinkson

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Posted 14 April 2012 - 02:53 AM

I leave my computer on 24/7 so my backups and virus scans perform without using cycles when in use. This is worth $24.00 a year. Just ask someone how much online backups cost per year.

#5 RodLY

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 02:24 AM

I need to access my computer remotely when I'm away for days at a time. If there was an app that only put the computer to sleep at night then woke it up again in the morning I'd use it. Otherwise I need it on all the time