Quote - I never shut off my system.  I did read that the quads will run much more power...but I wonder if 'having a light on' all day would really break anyone.  However, if you tried to have multiple of these on..it could easily add up huh.

If your Power supply is around 400W, which you may need, it's like running 4 lightbulbs all day. Not really a big deal.  You use more power then that with 10 min a day of drying hair... at least I do. 
If you're really worried about electricity, unplug your refrigirator and stop doing laundry ;)

Oh, back on topic, I use this system at the office: http://www.gateway.com/home/products/ret/ret_gm5084.shtml
It's really spiffy, especially for the price. Plugged in 4 gig of memory and nvidia 7800.
I should be running my renderings at the office overnight.

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