Ok, I have heard that a PC will use more power during power up than it does if you leave it on a full day (24hours).. I am trying to find out

1) is this fact?
2) where can I read and more important show this to someone
if it is indeed factual...

My reason for this is my new roommate is very anal about wanting me to turn off my PC anytime I will be gone for around an hour or two and I have tried explaining the Power up vs. staying on thing but they basically don't believe me.. So what I need since I have not been able to find anything is some help to find out if this is fact and a link to a creditable site that states this in clear English / non-geek terms for her... Help a brotha out (this down time is cutting into my folding)

Here ya go
LINK
Edit- Don't forget to take a look at the links at the bottom of the page I linked you to.

Well apparently I am wrong... Ugh! Wait.. No.. The ppl who wrote that tripe are wrong.. your all wrong muhahahhahaa!!! err... sorry...

Anyway I guess I will have to concede and turn the bloody thing off at night Grrrrr.....

When I was at home I ran my Pc 24/7 365 only time it was off was during a power outage or a reboot.... I think its BS...

**Goes to bedroom to pout!**

Well Twizted if you look again it states in plain english that:

Quote: If you are running something like SETI@home and you want to produce as many result sets as possible, you need to leave your machine on all the time.

Yes but that would be of little concern to her as she could care less... She is rather... I dont know how to put it so I wont. but I think you know what I am getting at...

Just tell here that your doing something good for humanity. Most women are all for community service in one form or another.

Man if its your computer in your room that your paying for then you should be allowed to run it. As far as I am concerned if I were to be paying for electricity or other bills then I should be able to run my comp as much as I want. Just my opinion if thats worth anything

well... I am staying with them and helping out around the house and what not... thing is durring summer when the air is being used he bill goes up and she automatically assumes its because of the addition of my one PC to the circuit... but fact... She would give a sh!t about what folding is I have told he and asked her if she would like to run it on her PC and he answer was hell no...

"God loves stupid people, just look at how many he created". A computer uses a good deal of power, if you leave it on year round, it's gonna be about 100 dollars at the end of the year in power costs (give or take, depending on your utilities company and location). Why not just give her 20 bucks a month to cover your electrical expendatures?

Im with later on this one just figure out how much energy your computer use and then multiply that by the cost per kilowatt hour and then give her the exact amount. Like the website ben gave said:

Quote: A typical PC consumes something like 300 watts. Let's assume that you use your PC for four hours every day, so the other 20 hours it is on would be wasted energy. If electricity costs 10 cents per kilowatt-hour in your area, then that 20 hours represents 60 cents a day. Sixty cents a day adds up to $219 per year.

So at the end of every month give her $18 and that will cover you computer use for the month.

don't moniters come with an 'energy triangle' now? mines at like 11.36/year for business apps. (so 16hrs/day-weekends)