On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:26:08PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
This is a habit I really want to get into. I currently never turn my home machine off, I don't care about the electricity costs but worry about the environmental impact of everybody doing this. I should also delve more deeply into other power saving measures (like spinning down hard drives) and accessing the processor speed step options that (I think) are available on this AMD 64 system board.
You have to be very careful though that you're not having more environmental impact by reducing the life of your hardware as that may have just as much environmental effect (manufacturing etc.) as you're saving by turning it off.
I think the 'slowing the processor right down' option is probably one of the best as the reliability impact is probably close to nil and the processor is now one of the biggest power consumers.
I *always* turn monitors off but one of my systems does run 24 hours.