On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:31:45 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz> wrote:

For sure. I have mine set to show the pretty pictures for five minutes, then
turn off. I also have the "Go to blank screen" option in 'settings' set to
five minutes as I believe that, even if the monitor is off, if the 'blank
screen' option isn't set the CPU/GPU are both still working hard to generate
graphics, even though they aren't being displayed as the monitor is off.
With the CPU working to display graphics like that it's got to slow down
your crunching.

UMMM, the cpu/gpu are still generating the displays you just aren't
seeing them. The computer has no way of knowing whether you will turn
on the screen any second, so it generates the stuff just in case.