Packaging & Accesories
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The GeminII’s box is pretty standard with a large picture on the front, specs on the side, and features on the back. Inside the box is the cooler itself packaged very well in foam as well as the included accessories. The accessories consist of installation instructions, the backplate, mounting brackets for AMD and Intel, and all of the screws, nuts, and tools required for installation.
Closer Look
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The cooler itself is a fairly simple design, with heat pipes running from the base up to the fins. The difference between this cooler and most other aftermarket coolers though is obviously the orientation. Many coolers are the vertical “tower” style where the air is blown out towards the back of the case rather than this horizontal style where the air is blown down at the motherboard. The main advantage of this style is that components underneath the cooler, such as RAM or motherboard MOSFETs, are cooled as well.
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Here we see the included fan which appears to be Cooler Master’s XtraFlo 120 though the specs are slightly different. In the middle we have the base of the cooler. This give you an idea of how large the heatsink itself is compared to the socket. Lastly we see the cooler with the fan uninstalled and the heatpipes in the fins.
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[…] With the recent attention shift to closed loop CPU water cooling, air coolers are starting to move out of the limelight. But, the fact is, good air coolers still offer features that water coolers are not able to. That is exactly what Cooler Master has done with their newest CPU air cooler, the GeminII S524. Rather then compete directly with the new behemoth coolers, the GeminII shifts its focus from simply cooling the CPU to also cooling nearby components. Read on to find out if that will be enough to keep the competition at bay. The GeminII performed pretty well with CPU temps hitting 32 degrees at idle and 51 degrees at load. But it really shines when we start to look at RAM and MOSFET temps. When the GeminII was pointed over the RAM, they hovered at 36 degrees under full load while they were closer to 42 degrees with the V8. It’s the same story with the MOSFETs. They stayed around 43 degrees at full load with the V8 but only 37 degrees with the GeminII. One thing that you have to take into consideration when looking at these results is that you must make the choice of what you want cooled. Although both the RAM and the MOSFETs have good temperatures with the GeminII, it is only able to actively cool one of them depending on its orientation. Source […]
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