Wonder how the desktop computer produces the power consumption (watts) and heat effect (degrees F) at your bedroom/office? This also affect your electric and gas billing during turning machine on 24/7 at your home.
Believe it or not, the monitor (CRT) produces more watts and heat than desktop hardware pieces running on the computer.
The best way to have your energy-saving for power consumption, simply turn the monitor off while you're not using the computer. Set your Windows XP to 'Stand-By', to put the computer in sleep, acts like it has been turned off. It saves the time when you wake up from stand-by mode, it will take less than 30 seconds to wake the computer up. If you shut down the computer instead stand-by, and reboot again, it could eaten your time - least 5 mintues to get the computer desktop on.
And, the heat is my enemy during summer season. The desktop computer effectively heat to change the temperature in your small room. As I have air contionder in my home, its produces more watts to cool in my room.
The good thing that my home includes the gas, so I do not have to worry the electric bills when the winter comes.
