I never used to put my PC to sleep but would normally run it 24/7. However in the past year I started putting my PC to sleep whenever I was not using it. Does this cause more stress to PC parts, especially overclocked CPU like mine & even the SSD and hard drive?
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Putting PC to Sleep
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The nitty-gritty answer...Yes. Components are meant to be kept on. The loss of power and then the surge of power when turning on is stressful on components.
The real world answer? It really wont matter throughout the life cycle of the component.
On the topic of leaving things on... i would say the only thing to worry about is a mechanical hard drive that is being accessed a lot (be it, a server or something). Even then, the mean time before failure is hundreds of thousands of hours of use.
Sleep it all you want!
The real world answer? It really wont matter throughout the life cycle of the component.
On the topic of leaving things on... i would say the only thing to worry about is a mechanical hard drive that is being accessed a lot (be it, a server or something). Even then, the mean time before failure is hundreds of thousands of hours of use.
Sleep it all you want!
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Hibernate. Same as shutting down, but CPU state and RAM contents are saved to disk before shutting down. When it boots back up, the CPU and RAM are restored to their previous state. Power usage is less than 5-10w depending on how much current is being drawn on the 5VSB rail.
Sleep modes will still consume several tens of watts because the memory has to be maintained, and enough circuitry to monitor for wakeup events stays powered up.
Sleep modes will still consume several tens of watts because the memory has to be maintained, and enough circuitry to monitor for wakeup events stays powered up.