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Meet P-tuner; this software provides control over various functions and also serves monitoring software for all the fans and temperatures probes. The P-Tuner software by the way is compatible with Windows XP and Vista.

Have a look:

First screeny: Here we see P-tuner showing off the main management screen. Displaying readings from the Odin GT as well as the assorted probes you have attached to the power supply (these probes are supplied with the PSU btw). On the bottom left side you will see three small icons; M is for Management, C is for Configure and the A is for Alarm. Also notice that we're running this PC at 3600 MHz on the processor.

The monitor's explained:

Watt: The segment of the control panel shows the accumulation of wattage being consumed as well as the peak wattage.

This functions is what sold me instantly. I love it. One problem though, there's no possible way to prove how accurate this reading is. Now we already talked about power efficiency, okay? I did do a couple of test runs and came to the conclusion that the wattage measure is different from my readings with our power meter. For example, if our wattage meter reported 200 Watts then the Odin GT would report 160-170 Watt(ish) (80% efficient). So here we have a key way to monitor wattage, as it measures inside the PSU, and this efficiency doesn't factor in just yet.

Voltage: This section measures voltage readings from the various rails on the power supply.

Current: This segment tells you how much amperage is being used by each of the rails. It looks nice but there's no way of telling how accurate this is.

Fan Speed: Two readings are for the Power Supply fan and the System Fan speeds. As you'll notice the System Fan speed refused to display results, and I did try a couple of fans here.

Temperature: This segment gives you both the core temperature of the power supply and readings from the four modular temperature probes. The T1 through T4 titles match to the modular interface location of the temperature probes and next to each readout you are able to write in a description of each probe.

I fired off an infrared thermometer at the system and started comparing the probes with the results of this calibrated device, there's pretty much a 1 degree C variation ... but that's it. Pretty accurate.

LED: In the lower bottom right corner you will spot an LED button which can be toggled to turn on and off the intensely bright blue LEDs inside the power supply.