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Without a doubt, this is one crazy looking cooler from top to bottom. As crazy as it looks, it functions very well and with the 120mm fans, the cooler was absolutely quiet. On my E6850 rig using the TJ-10 enclosure and Abit IP35 motherboard, the fit was great, and GeminII was almost lost in the vastness of space within this enclosure.
Size
isn't the only factor in choosing a CPU cooler, but how well it
performs, and if any after-market cooler out-performs the stock cooler,
then it's doing its job. The Cooler Master GeminIi did out-perform the stock C2D cooler by a few degrees, which is what we want. The GeminII,
however, is a multitasking cooler. With the length and ability to hold
two 120mm fans side-by-side, the area of the fans is greater than the
area of the cooling fins, thus allowing air to also be blown across the
RAM modules and the capacitors. So, not only does it cool the CPU, it
cools other components around it.
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