I suspect that you would be hard pressed to find an appliance in your house that doesn't have a quiescent voltage running circuitry so that the start ups are shorter, these also help reduce thermal cycles.Įdited by dc3, 05 January 2007 - 01:52 AM. This does occur, but extremely slowly in most cases, we're talking about years with electronic components, overclocking is a good example of the deviation from the norm. Those of you who overclock know first hand about these issues.Īnother issue that was brought up are thermal cycles, turning it on and off does cause thermal cycles, this is thermal-hysteresis. Most board level components failures are voltage or heat related. But other than capacitors that will eventually experience a dielectric breakdown most other board level components will last for decades. By the same token, your utility companies and many business's have computers running 24/7.Īs for computers wearing out, some components in the computer like hard drives, optical drives, and fans will wear out if for no other reason than hysteresis. The University of Minnesota Law school has a laptop program that suggest that if you are not going to be using the computer to shut it down.

Both can produce slow response times, system instability, even the loss of data. Most computers when left alone will either hibernate or go to standby mode and there are problems related to both of those with long term use. Up to you, shutting down doesn't do as much harm as you may think Second thing that'll happen is your parts will start heating up more and more, To the point of where something WILL snapĮven if you have a semi cool room that you have it in, or an openly vented area, if your have your case closed as 95% of users do, inside there, is getting a hell of a lot faster than outside area, So your parts will in effect wear themselves out completely Leave it on everyday, every hour, every minute, Without restarting once.first you're going to notice a degradation in performance, as well, the memory has never had a chance to reset itself, and everythings clogging up, So you're machine is going to get slower, A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, tower, system unit, or cabinet, is the enclosure that contains most of the components of a personal.

But even then, I have my case open all the time.kind of cracked my glass on my siding after having it off too long, so yea. Unless you're like me, And have your window open 90% of the year, In canada, where nights hit -20. There is no way that any part in your computer cools Fast enough to create cracks. If you turn off your computer once everything has slowly and safely shut down, Its not like your card is going from 70 to 20 in 3 seconds, It'll take its time to cool off, as that's the way convection works, (right term? *shrug*) Leaving it on 24/7 365 days a year will wear the parts out faster than turning them off can, and while your parts may be semi hot, they're definitly not cooling THAT fast to snap them at any time

Leave computer case open