BEST TIPS FOR GREEN COMPUTING

Personal Computers and Notebooks are perhaps one of the fasted growing electricity loads in office and intellectual grounds. So it becomes important to reduce our consumption to reduce our electricity bills. In fact, one should not add up more equipments to the PC as broadband itself is expensive enough. Technology has brought Green Computing system to optimize the usage of current rate. Green Computing is a method used for using your computing resources efficiently. In simple terms Green Computing is practiced to get most out of your PC, with maximum cost savings and minimum environmental effects. It incorporate triple bottom line of social responsibility, economic viability, and environmental force.

Green Computing could be done with the following tips:

    •  It is a good idea to turn of your PC during nights and weekends do not leave them standby, turn off IT equipment when it not in use. It would save enough bucks, and always remember to switch off printer and monitor too.
    •  You extend the life of your computer by upgrading the memory. Go with 512 MB, which performs good and fast with Window XP.
    •  Move with schedule aspects, always keep habit of organizing your computer related activity. Turn of when it is not in use.
    •  Get power management features on your notebook or personal computer to have energy-efficient. So always enable the power management as it automatically moves on to low-power mode when not in use.
    •  Avoid using screen saver as it inclines more energy.