Turning a monitor off vs, letting it sleep?

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mace200200

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I know this comes up every once in a great while, but there's never a conclusive answer and it's been a long time. Does this effect the monitors life time? Or just simply, is it bad to turn it off and on instead?
 
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Depends on how often you turn it off/on.
Mine gets turned off before I goto bed, and then I turn it back on again when I get home from work.

Now if your tun yours on/off multiple times a day, especially for a short time ex: turn off, get coffee, turn back on, then there is a chance you could hurt your monitor.

my rule: if im going to be away for more than an hour, I turn the monitor off.
 
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I usually let mine fall asleep, the reason I thought of this again was because lately my monitors (well not just one) would go to sleep, then turn back on with a black screen. I turned off all the power savings and that seemed to help a bit just not entirely. So I though instead of making a big deal of it, I would just, turn my monitor off instead :D
 
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There is nothing wrong with sleep mode, it just uses a few watts because its sleeping and the led is on. For me I turn it off but its a habit and the orange light is a little annoying at night.
 
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People don't like it because it stresses the hard drive. I'm pretty sure it's still sending voltage into the CPU, and ram in sleep mode too. But like I said, I don't really use it so I never looked to far into it.
 
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