Hello friends

My first question is about power supply. I hope some of you can help me about this. My current configuration is AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with Zalman 7700cu CPU cooler, Gigabyte K8 Triton Nforce4 Mainboard, 2gb Of DDR400 Kingston Rams, Asus Extreme N6600 Video Card with Zalman v700 cooler, Creative SB Live 5.1, 200 gb of Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive, a floppy drive, LG CD-Writer - Placed on a 3 fan Thermaltake Tsunami Case.

I am running this stuff with 480 watt Silent Pure Power - Power supply is this supply enough for running this kind of system ? Should I upgrade this to 580 or more ?

Also I installed Easytune 5 today- I never installed it before. I am using my system since 3 months. Anyway, I installed it to monitor cpu and system temperatures. When I checked I saw this

Anyone can tell me what those exclamation marks mean ? I can't find anything on application's help

And another wierd thing is - I bought an 200gb Seagate hard drive instead of my one 80gb western digital and one 30gb quantum fireball. But my system works slower than before ? And I am confused. Any help will truly appreciated...

All the best,

Kerem

Can't answer most of your questions, but that power supply sound beefy enough to me. You might better post this question at tomshardware.com, rather than this graphics forum. Does the air coming out of your box feel very hot? Are your fans changing speed as the machine heats like they should? How is your Windows cache ("pagefile" or "swapfile")set up to use those new drives (assuming Windows XP)? Typically you would set that to use a non-boot drive at twice the size of your amount of memory (but you need at least a small pagefile on the boot drive as well, i believe). Always maintain at least 20% of drive space on the boot drive free for Windows itself to use.

One thing I see in your pic is that you are using Norton. From my own (and work experience), Norton is a cycles hog. It can eat up a lot of processing power. Trend Micro has a great anti-vrus program (very inexpensive) PC-cillin that works great and you hardly know it's running. I've also heard that Norton Internet Security causes more problems than it solves. Run a hardware firewall and/or use SP2 Windows firewall. Just my humble opinion, of course.

I'm a professional PC consultant and install Trend Micro's PC-cillin (now Internet Security 2005) on my PC and all my clients. I feel it's the best and have used it for several years. It has one problem right now, it will damage PestPatrol - thinks part of it is a Trojan.

Right all the details sound great...the power supply is great if you ask me. Your CPU temp looks good as well. The exclamation marks are for your fan RPM...Easy Tune may beletting you know that the RPM may be within it's warning limits. What is the rpm of the Zalman CPU cooler fan suppose to be? Have you got a 80mm or 120mm fan for the case. It may be a case of going into Easy Tune and just adjusting down the lower warning limit for the RPM. I wouldn't worry too much though...your temps look good if Easy Tune is correct :) Cheers

I appreciate to everyone who sharing thier knowledge. I know it is Vue forum but I got great guys here to ask it ! :D @ Cheers : Zalman cpu cooler I use works maximum 1750-1800rpm. Also I have 2 120mm one 90mm fans on the case. And I guess the system fan is the intake fan on the front of the case. Maximum rmps of these fans are 1400rpm for 120mm and 1800rpm for 90mm (it is a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case). I am also checking the bios frequently, I got same degrees on PC Health Status.

Sounds fine then mate...just looks like Easy Tune is set to alert you of a low rpm set at something above your fans rated rpm....considering most 60 to 80 mm fans run at about 4000rpm and you have larger and therefore slower fans. Usually Gigabyte have a pretty acurate reading of temps...have a Gigabyte board myself....and from your screenshots I can see nothing to worry about at all. Infact I would be very happy with those stats....my dual MP's run at about 50 degrees at an ambient room temp of 25 degrees...although under load I'm looking at only an increase of about 7 degrees on the cpu. Cheers P.S. Just another thing about your PSU...your voltages look good as well...although to get truely accurate readings needs a voltmeter...you have nothing to worry about at all :)

You might want to plug in that WD 80 GB drive again. By spreading the I/O load over two disks you can get a decent performance increase. First of all, set your virtual memory to use both disks. Windows will use the disk that isn't busy when it has to swap out a piece of memory - something that happens several times per second. Second, by distributing your apps and data over the two disks, the disks can work in parallel and you'll get a nice performance increase. Third - get rid of Norton. It's a resource hogs and creates more problems than it solves. Getting rid of Norton probably means a full reinstall of your OS - including formatting your drives. It cannot be decently uninstalled (unlike PC-Cillin!).