Isn't a straight 12-hour working period for a PC dangerous?

[aj2003]

i only turn mine off cos there is no need for me to leave it on overnite. i purposely got a psu that uses 25% less power so parents cant complain and cos its near my bed ive tried to make it as quiet as possible. I wouldnt worry about leaviny my comp on at all, my mate had his on for a total of over 4 months so no1 he knows could have a longer time connected to the net in one go lol

 

[Zeeg]

just give it a good kick and all is good

NOT LITERALLY!

 

[piggysmile]

how will u know how much electricity your computer consumes aside from calculating your monthly electric bill?

 

[waynejkruse10]

umm, well, you have to work out how many watts your pc uses, energy companies measure power consumpion in Kilowatt hours which means 1000 watts for a hour, and on your bill it says how many cents for a kilowatt hour.

 

[piggysmile]

ty

 

[VIII]

lol thats nothing, at the place i did work experience at i looked at the Connection status and it had been connected(comp on) for 128 days

 

[TheMajor]

Not dangerous at all. Electronic devices can stay on for years without breaking.

 

[waynejkruse10]

unless they overheat, mose people on this forum have good heat management anyways

 

[willsko87]

I found on the net a test that was done which found that it costs around $65 US per year in electricity to run a standard computer with a 15" CRT monitor for 24 hours 7 days a week for 365 days of the year. Which is what, $5 a month. But as some of you said u leave more than one computer on then that eats into your electricity bill.

:up: I posted that in an earlier thread about this

 

[VICone]

I've had a desktop running 24/7 (rebooting maybe 3 times a week) since 2001. It's an old POS too, and it still runs fine.

I probably jinxed myself now.