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SUP, i was checking out the web when i saw this monster, its the Cooler Master GeminII, this cooler his huge, 6 heat pipes with 2 120's blown right on them. Who's the king now? link, http://www.coolermaster.com/index. [...] -GPGeminII

L8er :)

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that thing is a monster 8O

no need for case fans anymore LOL.

Reply to sirheck
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I found a semi-review at Hexus.net. Unfortunately, they don't go so far as to benchmark it. You can see just how massive it is by this picture:

http://img.hexus.net/v2/cooling/CMGii/4.jpg

Looks like this cooler, when you add fans to it, would keep air going over your RAM, which is nice. I think you'd want to put this in a case with a couple top-mounted exhaust fans, though.

Reply to HotFoot
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I think you'd want to put this in a case with a couple top-mounted exhaust fans, though.



will it even fit in a case? 8O

Reply to sirheck
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hole guacamole

Reply to tekzor

thats.. HUGE o_O
that monster remiunds me of the dual fans for the Woodcrest x2 in some apple workstations.

Reply to tamalero
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Ah, here we go... some performance graphs.

Link.

EDIT: In light of more observant posters, I must note that the linked performance graph is for a previous edition of the product. Sorry for any misleading this post may have done.

Reply to HotFoot
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Ah, here we go... some performance graphs.




Link.




lol pwnd
5/10

Reply to tekzor
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Yeah... seems disappointing considering it's got 6 heatpipes and a gigantic amount of cooling surface. Maybe the problem is the direction the hot air is blown, so in-case performance could be poor. Then again, not all heatpipes are created equal either. Oh well. I do better with my current cooler, I'll stick with it until something better comes out.

Reply to HotFoot

When cooling starts to get out of hand like that, water becomes more and more sensible.

Reply to The_Interloper
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When cooling starts to get out of hand like that, water becomes more and more sensible.



My thoughts exactly

Reply to jt001

It may cool ok, but god it's ugly. Seems like something you'd see sticking out of a mobile home.

Howard.

Reply to Howard_Stern
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Would work horribly in my case (Antec P180), no side fans.

Reply to Stork

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Yeah... seems disappointing considering it's got 6 heatpipes and a gigantic amount of cooling surface. Maybe the problem is the direction the hot air is blown, so in-case performance could be poor. Then again, not all heatpipes are created equal either. Oh well. I do better with my current cooler, I'll stick with it until something better comes out.



Actually, there isn't that much cooling surface, those fins don't extend far below the fans. Blowing air over the mobo seems like a good idea, but the lack of fins removes that advantage. Besides, case fans are supposed to circulate air in the case, not the CPU cooler. Looks to be a white elephant IMO.

Reply to djplanet

Makes swapping out your RAM a royal pain it seems.

Reply to MasterLee

i think this will work properly if it was used in an AMD FX case, like the Thermaltake Armor Xtereme Edition, the case has two side intakes with funnels that will connect right on to the 120's on the cooler. this does not mean it will work with a 4x4 set up because of the lack of room unless they were placed vertically instead of horizontally.

l8er :)

Reply to BigCharb
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so they make amd and intel cases huh. :roll:

Reply to sirheck

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Ah, here we go... some performance graphs.

Link.



Very satisfying to know my SI-128 does a close second on that chart, right behind the titan amanda... which needs twice the amount of fans to get .5 degrees better cooling than the 128.

Reply to LAN_deRf_HA
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Makes swapping out your RAM a royal pain it seems.


Very good point.

Reply to Everett
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Looks cool.
But does anyone know if liquid cooling will provide any significant temperature drops over good air-cooling?

Reply to enewmen
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Ah, here we go... some performance graphs.

Link.



That link is for a testbed containing the old Geminii 1. Had me fooled for a sec :wink:

Reply to Lyom

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Looks cool.
But does anyone know if liquid cooling will provide any significant temperature drops over good air-cooling?



Yes, my M/B is 13C, my CPU is 15C right now. CPU runs 2 GHz stock speed, not anymore.

Reply to MasterLee

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Ah, here we go... some performance graphs.

Link.



That link is for a testbed containing the old Geminii 1. Had me fooled for a sec :wink:

Ha, good eye. I was getting damn suspicious of the pathetically low benchmarks....

~Ibrahim~

Reply to ikjadoon
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I dont care how it looks, or how big it is. All that matters is its cooling ability and its price.

Reply to apt403
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Looks cool.
But does anyone know if liquid cooling will provide any significant temperature drops over good air-cooling?



Yes, my M/B is 13C, my CPU is 15C right now. CPU runs 2 GHz stock speed, not anymore.

Impressive. What liquid-cool kit do you have?

Reply to enewmen
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Would work horribly in my case (Antec P180), no side fans.



agree
no way i will put that in my case, even if it is better than water, hell better than phase, i will not put it in my case.

for me, water with the messy tubes are complete turn off already, that is why water is out for me.

FANS are still most elegant solution for computer.

unless you are those who push the limits of overclocking.

Reply to ma2ha3
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Looks cool.
But does anyone know if liquid cooling will provide any significant temperature drops over good air-cooling?



http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1289/pcwizarddr7.th.png Mine on air :wink:

Reply to Everett

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Looks cool.
But does anyone know if liquid cooling will provide any significant temperature drops over good air-cooling?



Yes, my M/B is 13C, my CPU is 15C right now. CPU runs 2 GHz stock speed, not anymore.

Impressive. What liquid-cool kit do you have?

Blocks, CPU, Chipset are from a KingWin setup. Now I know some will laugh but their blocks were great just the pumps and res. really sucked. I have a heater core converted by me, an approx. 9" by 11" cooling element submerged in 4 gallons of water/anti-freeze. The cool air that blows thru the heater core cools in case interior and force feeds cool air into my enclosed video card. I didn't want to go thru all of the extra insulating to prevent condensation since the water is so cold, so I used it to even the whole motherboard/case temp.
It's all mostly enclosed, but my toes get cold when I race Nascar for a long time.

Reply to MasterLee

dual 120's....thats tite...gotz to have for mad overclocking

~WORD

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