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- From: ben@yenta.alb.nm.us (Ben Klausner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.202112.9749@yenta.alb.nm.us>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:21:12 GMT
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- eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee Furnival) writes:
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- >I am in the process of advising someone in the purchase of a new pc and
- >have a question regarding extending the life of the chips. We will be
- >getting a clone 486DX-33. There are 2 cooling fans in a mid-tower case
- >and I am going to install a fan/heatsink on the CPU. Question:
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- > Should the system be left on 24 hours a day?
-
- Turning the system on and off is certainly traumatic to the components, and
- should be minimized. This has to be compared to the expense and aging
- involved with leaving the system on all the time.
-
- The best recommendation I have seen is that once you have turned it on,
- leave it on if you might use it again the same day. Turn it off when
- _completely_ done for the day. The reason many Unix boxes are left on
- permanently, is so that E-mail and other network or UUCP activities can
- continue to be accessed.
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- More important than your fans, is to get a good quality surge suppressor/
- line filter. If the system stays up while unattended, a UPS is in order too.
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