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Thursday, October 18, 2007
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When this next item was offered up for review, I jumped on the opportunity right away. I seem to get weird, off-the-wall items to review *cough*Bat case*cough* and, well, this next item definitely falls into the weird category. The item in question is the Gemin II from CoolerMaster, or as I like to call it, "The Griddle". The Gemin II is a large, low sitting cooler designed to not only cool the CPU, but many of the other motherboard components around the CPU, like the capacitor and RAM. The Gemin II uses two 120mm fans (not included) to cool its large surface.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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Cooler Master took a gamble bringing such a large cooler to market. The sheer size of the GeminII will preclude its use on some motherboards, and I can see that it will be a very tight fit in some smaller cases. Performance wise, the GeminII posted up some good numbers on the testbed, but fell short of the lofty expectations that a cooler of this size and design would inspire. This is not to say that the cooling performance was lacking; it wasn't. I just think it would be reasonable to expect more from the GeminII.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
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Today we are going to take a look at a traditional Cooler Master part, a CPU cooler which goes by the name of GeminII, and a product from their extended catalogue the X Craft 360 enclosure. Those DH regulars amongst you will remember we have looked at the GeminII before - but we had over one hundred emails about this product asking if we could retest it on the highest end hardware. Our readers are very important to us, so today we are retesting the cooler on an Extreme Edition Quad Core Intel CPU.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
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Arguably the most interesting comparison to be made was the performance difference between the Noctua NH-U12F, which was using only one NF-S12 fan at 600RPM, and the GeminII. The GeminII trailed the NH-U12F by almost six degrees, which doesn't bode well for the GeminII's cooling efficiency. Even though the Noctua NH-U12F has some installation headaches, we don't think that this pitfall outweighs its otherwise very good performance. I'm sure with more powerful fans, we'll see more incremental performance improvements with the GeminII, but those gains would come at the expense of noise - the same could be said about the Noctua NH-U12F, too. With the fans we've tested the heatsink with here, the Cooler Master GeminII is a reasonably good silent cooling solution, but it's not a great one.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
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The GeminII has performed great in the test rig. It was able to generate temperatures close to the Ultra Chill Tec Cooler, which was impressive I must say.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
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The new very Big CPU Heatsink from Cooler Master,the Gemin II, arrived Technic3D. Only for Big Cases? See you in the following Review with A.C.Ryan Blackfire Fans against others CPU Cooling.
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