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You do not. It's only if you want to sleep you computer.

• bloopernova 3y ago
  Awesome, thank you. I was worried my question came across as combative but I only realized that after the edit window had passed.
  • cogman10 3y ago
    No worries. I took it as a genuine question. The settings control how the card interacts with the sleep signal. The default behavior for Nvidia is to do nothing which results in memory corruption when the computer wakes up again. If you never put your computer to sleep, it'll never get that sleep signal so there's no real issue. I'm not sure if I trust hibernation though, I've not tried it. Sleep has been just fine and doesn't eat too much power (like 5 watts for my desktop)