Is it bad for the hardware in a pc to be turned on an off every

It literally doesn't matter

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>>61882169

>>61882142
It does stay on. That's how bodned exists

The way it was explained to me was simple.
If you want to save your CPU, leave it on. If you want to save your HDD, turn it off.
The CPU is the only piece of a computer that's small enough and hot enough to be significantly effected by heat expansion and cooling repeatedly. And the HDD is the only piece that is constantly and slowly deteriorating by just being on.

>don't turn your pc off, it'll last longer!
said the lardass that never cleans the inside of his computer and lets fans and heatsinks get clogged with dust

>>61882142
you will probably just end up upgrading your pc before you start to see signs of trouble from turning your pc on and off.

>>61883694
so leave it on then? because who the fuck cares about HDD? CPU is one of the most expensive parts.

Uptime Redux of this question:

I fell for the AMD GPU memes and now I get driver crashes on boot or something, so everytime I get past POST monitors go "no signal" so I hit my reset button on the case. So every boot is actually 2 boots. How's fucked is my SSD?

>>61882142
People who claim that thermal expansion/shrinkage has any effect fail to realize that varying loads do the same thing.

>>61883908
Your SSD is fine, get a real GPU

HDD have spin up/spiin down limited cycles
when I say limited it'sin the range of 100 thousand
so assuming you power on/off pc twice a day you'd need 136 years to wear it down, it will die on it's own first

silicon can survive in the range of 10 years of abuse as far as I know

>>61883908
DDU it, if you are on windwos after updates gpu drivers go haywire

>>61883898
The expansion and shrinking will only be relevant past the useful life of the cpu.