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Of course I shut down my PC when I'm not using it, what kind of question is that?
There's an option to put it to sleep so it can resume quickly the next time you need it. And you don't need to restore your windows every boot up.
Hibernate to the rescue. (:
It is like sleep, but does not need any power. You need to do regular restarts after major updates (new kernel and stuff), though.
The question is to gamers. I use my PC mainly for gaming and light "office" tasks (doing taxes, writing e-mails, shopping online, that kind of thing). So what windows would I need to restore? The browser window with the wiki to the game I'm playing doesn't take that long to reload. Other than that I want as little background tasks as possible when I'm running a game, especially if it's demanding to the hardware.
And no matter how good sleep functions are at power saving, a device that's on does use power which I can save by turning off what I don't use.