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Do you use Screensavers?

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Not sure if this is quite the right board, but I couldn't find one to fit it better.

I'm wondering how many of you use screensavers when you either go afk for long periods of time or go to sleep? Sometimes I turn my monitor off, others I forget and just leave it on, but I've been pondering setting up a screensaver for when I do leave it on.
 
my monitors go into suspend after 1/2 hour. I don't bother with screensavers.
 
set my monitor to turn off after 10 min
think of all of the energy we could save office etc if everybody did that. screen savers are for show
 
i only use a screen saver to lock my computer. i usually turn my monitor off when i'm not around.
 
^Same thing. I use the ss to lock my computer and keep my nosy sister away. But if I know I'm not going to be using my monitor I turn it off.
 
I use the XP Default, set to come on after 10 mins.

As long as you have your monitor plugged in, it's using power, turning it off doesnt save all that much.
 
I don't think modern monitors really require screensavers.

Older monitors use to get "screenburn" if you left a particular image static on the screen for too long, this was like a ghost image you could see no matter what you were currently viewing.

Screensavers are only really handy as a security device in offices and such if they come on when you're away from your PC and can only be turned off by a password, that aside they are just eyecandy.

So to answer your original question no I don't bother with a screensaver.
 
Originally posted by [M]aynard [M]cGuffin
As long as you have your monitor plugged in, it's using power, turning it off doesnt save all that much.
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i'm a bit skeptical.... proof?
 
Originally posted by [M]aynard [M]cGuffin
As long as you have your monitor plugged in, it's using power, turning it off doesnt save all that much.
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Uhm, no. When turned off they do not use power, just like any other electrical appliance.
 
Originally posted by tdg
Uhm, no. When turned off they do not use power, just like any other electrical appliance.
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yeah, sorta. it might use less than a watt to monitor something, like your pc does for the clock (off isn't usually the correct word for modern electronic devices, standby is more accurate).

but back to the thread, i never use the screensaver. to me, it's a joke. it uses MORE power, and since when am i going to be at the computer when the screensaver is on? i just turn the monitor off. every now and then a cool new opengl screensaver will come out, i'll download it and look at it's coolness for 5 minutes. and then disable it.
 
Originally posted by MTB2Live,Live4Comps
yeah, sorta. it might use less than a watt to monitor something, like your pc does for the clock (off isn't usually the correct word for modern electronic devices, standby is more accurate).
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i suppose it depends on the monitor but all my monitors seem to have a 'real' switch that clicks when it's off, as in it disconnects power, not like a relay or something to have it more or less off. atx mobos on the other hand have 'soft' switches on the front of the case that don't directly cut the power in the way that many things do.
 
Originally posted by Stinger836
^Same thing. I use the ss to lock my computer and keep my nosy sister away. But if I know I'm not going to be using my monitor I turn it off.
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you may be interested in this thread to easily enable/disable the screen saver
 
Goes blank after 15 min, switches off after 20 min. I usually lock it if I step more than two or three feet from it, so it sits there quitely on the welcome screen for 15 minutes. Works for me.
 
Nope, I don't use screensavers at all anymore. They're all for show only. I simply just turn my monitor off when I leave my desk for a while.
 
I also turn off the monitor when not in use. Don't see any point in using a screensaver.
 
No screensaver, when I get up to leave my computer I lock it and flip the monitor off.

As for screen burn-in, I saw aSony G400 at Circuit City that had AOL burned quite nicely into the screen. I can just imagine how long that had to run without being turned off.
 
at my dad's office there's a monitor that was hooked up to a really old dos-esk billing system. the monitor was on nearly 24x7 for years. major and total burn in of the main menu.
 
Originally posted by MTB2Live,Live4Comps
yeah, sorta. it might use less than a watt to monitor something, like your pc does for the clock (off isn't usually the correct word for modern electronic devices, standby is more accurate).
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now wait a sec... are we talking about when windows 'turns off' the monitor or when you press the button yourself, cuz i do the latter and that's why i got confused because then i know it's not drawing any power.
 
Originally posted by [M]aynard [M]cGuffin
As long as you have your monitor plugged in, it's using power, turning it off doesnt save all that much.
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He he he....that's hilarious!!!!!!!!!

I suppose my car still uses a lot of gas, even when it's off?
 
I don't use a screensaver, monitor just goes off after 10 mins.
But I do use Dremples as my desktop background.
 
Originally posted by [M]aynard [M]cGuffin
I use the XP Default, set to come on after 10 mins.

As long as you have your monitor plugged in, it's using power, turning it off doesnt save all that much.
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Eeh no. If you turn it off of course it doesn´t use power. And if you go in power mode all that goes on with your screen that uses power is that led and how much power do that drain :D

And I would bet my monitor draw as much current as my computer including my 550 W PSU :D
 
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