 Re: Do you turn it off or leave it on? | |
Hi, I switch mine to standby when not in use, but have also set mine up to do all its updates every day at 2am & have then set up to do defrag & other bits at 5am. I usually just leave the machine running 1 night a week.
The only downside on leaving the machine running in normal mode is you will be sucking in dust & will start to have noisy fans after a period of time. You will tend to find this dust gets around the cooling fins on the motherboard fan & then starts to make the main chip start running at a higher temperature, which then slows your machine down & could damage things.
I have replaced the 2 of the 5 fans on my machine with stronger ones & then placed filters that I made from cooker hood filters over the inlet & outlet vents. Don’t think I have had to clean the machine once since doing this & all runs nice and quietly.
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