Are these huge things not selling? I'm not up-to-date on how well they've done in tests. Hard to believe they are good for this price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... %2bGeminII
$15 AR, free shipping. Wow.
HOT! Cooler Master GeminII CPU Cooler from Newegg - $15 AR
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Re: HOT! Cooler Master GeminII CPU Cooler from Newegg - $15
I own two, and neither are in current use. First, they are very good low air flow quiet HSFs, absolutely not suitable for the gaming/overclocking crowd - which most of the secondary market for HSFs is. Second, that's a 5.5" square cooling grid, which is frickin' big, and it's difficult to get at mobo stuff under its "umbrella".Ken5d wrote:Are these huge things not selling?
So, for different reasons, after trying it the big overclock crowd won't recommend it, and neither will the small SPCR crowd.
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That sounds familiar: When you get it cheap, buy it and think its purpouse later. Especially when it comes to components. That is why I got now 3 extra Nexus fans ( I found cheap retailer, who quiet business though ) and 2 extra Heatsinks.buzzlightyear wrote:When the price drops again to $15 AR, I wouldn't help myself. Got one this morning. Don't really have a good reason for doing that.
i just built a rig w/ this cooler, i posted in the gallery section.
viewtopic.php?t=42376
about the cooler.
i'm using 2 yate loons, that almost never turn on (speedfan, desired cpu temp 40). it's also an amd x2 1.9 overclocked to 2.9.
i just lapped this heatsink(and the amd heatspreader) and the cpu temp is now down to 33c idle (all these temps are idle so far)
is it big? oh yea i got it b/c well the rebate was very tempting and it's pretty high quality(the artic cooling that i tried to lap took forever, as opposed to this relatively simple lapping of this behemouth).
i mean w/ the right fan and speedfan enabled, it's pretty quiet, it's pretty massive and yea it blocks the ram slots(who changes ram all the time anyway?)
viewtopic.php?t=42376
about the cooler.
i'm using 2 yate loons, that almost never turn on (speedfan, desired cpu temp 40). it's also an amd x2 1.9 overclocked to 2.9.
i just lapped this heatsink(and the amd heatspreader) and the cpu temp is now down to 33c idle (all these temps are idle so far)
is it big? oh yea i got it b/c well the rebate was very tempting and it's pretty high quality(the artic cooling that i tried to lap took forever, as opposed to this relatively simple lapping of this behemouth).
i mean w/ the right fan and speedfan enabled, it's pretty quiet, it's pretty massive and yea it blocks the ram slots(who changes ram all the time anyway?)