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Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Every night, I put my computer to sleep. But should I be shutting it down every now and then? For example, maybe once a week or once a month?

Just curious to see this question answered from a Linux gamers' perspective.

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

You'll also need to cut the power to power supplies if you want to save every watt. For example, my desktop computer (display et al. not included) takes 2.2 W sleeping, and 1.7 W powered off.

With 10 cents per kilowatt, 2.2 W costs 0.00022 whole units of money per hour. 10 hours of sleep would come to cost 0.803 whole units of money per year.

Formula: 2.2 W * (0.1 M/kWh / 1000) * 10 h * 365, where M is some currency of money.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I agree with you. I always take sensible steps to minimise my energy consumption, but even at current sky-high electricity prices, some things simply are not worth worrying about. Putting TV in standby is one for instance. When my parents moved house, my dad paid an electrician £200 to have a switched power socket installed by the TV, just so he could easily "turn it off at the wall". Modern TVs use less than 0.5W when in standby, so it would be decades before the savings from this expense made up for the energy costs of manufacturing and installing a new power socket.

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