OT: Computer related question, Should it remain on or turn it off??? Options

[URY914]

We just bought our daughter a desktop PC for her room (without internet access).
We had an IT guy from my wife's work (major state university) build it for us. We trust that he knows what he's doing. Here is the problem, he said we should always leave it on. Don't turn it off and on as it wears out some of the components. Only problem with this is it makes some noise and she is not use to it yet and has problems getting to sleep.

Question is: Leaving it on ya or na? Does it make a differance to the machine???

Thanks

Paul

[Lou W]

Mine is always on, I don't have the patience to boot up etc. , in addition, it's also my answering machine. I did the same with my last one too, never had any problems with leaving it on, even on vacation.


I had a good friend of mine's house burn down, the fire department said that it was caused from dust build-up etc. on his surge protector, used for his computer. I attached mine to the back of my desk as oppose to laying on the floor, and once a year I take the covers off my computer and vacuum it out along with using my compresor to blow the dust out. I don't know if this is overkill, but I figured it can't hurt.


I alway's turn my Laptop's off if I'm not using them.