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Ruben

bdickens
Standard practice for any DAW computer is to set it so nothing ever goes to sleep and to disable any screen savers.

^ ^  This.

+1. This is one of the first optimisations you should make. Also, make sure HDDs never sleep and that CPU never gets throttled.
 
I just have my screen set to turn off after 20 mins of inactivity and that hasn't caused any issues and just switches back on with a touch of the mouse, but don't use a screensaver! That's the only power saving feature I have enabled.

robbyk

35mm

Ruben

bdickens
Standard practice for any DAW computer is to set it so nothing ever goes to sleep and to disable any screen savers.

^ ^  This.

+1. This is one of the first optimisations you should make. Also, make sure HDDs never sleep and that CPU never gets throttled.
 
I just have my screen set to turn off after 20 mins of inactivity and that hasn't caused any issues and just switches back on with a touch of the mouse, but don't use a screensaver! That's the only power saving feature I have enabled.

What do you do, just shut it down every night?

robbyk
As in never turn the pc off, just let it run?

robbyk
As in never turn the pc off, just let it run?

davehorch
 Win10 and I don't get along.
 
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bitflipper
There is an advantage to turning your computer off at night, which is to reclaim RAM lost to memory leaks. Such leaks usually don't become a problem until days or weeks have passed, though, so rebooting once a week is almost as good as shutting down every night.