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Stobe:

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--- Quote from: Stobe on July 25, 2005, 12:58:53 pm ---If you don't plan on playing it for over 4 hours, you might as well manually turn it off.

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Huh?
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Jollyrob:
I don't actually have a cab yet, but i always pictured myself leaving it on,  as for one, it's more inviting when guests come over if they see it actually operational, and also, what's the point in downloading all these nice attract videos and setting up screensavers involving pac-man and what not, if your just gonna leave it off when not using it anyway

electricd:
Right..that was kinda my philosophy on it as well.  But definately not at the expense of my D9200!

tommy:
It's always nice to have you machine on like a real arcade would have it... you will just prolong the life of everything if you turn it off when not entertaining and playing.

SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: tommy on July 25, 2005, 03:44:24 pm ---It's always nice to have you machine on like a real arcade would have it... you will just prolong the life of everything if you turn it off when not entertaining and playing.

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See, there's difference of opinions on that, depending on how much you play.  Turning on and off create power surges which could shorten the life of some componants.

A computer and monitor in suspend mode use up very little electricity.  i believe it is less than your typical light bulb.  Pretty much everything is shutdown except for a small circuit that is watching when to wake up.  Needless to say, when your computer is "off" it is still on.  It partly how ATX works and how come you can wake on lan and such.  Many motherboard, even when you turn the computer "off" will have some sort of LED status indicator that is on.

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