COOLER MASTER GeminII S524 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler

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I'm using this on an i7-2600k with stock voltages and running 1887 ram and not a hair of problems. Cpu temp is perfect and helps to keep the ram cool as well. Looks nice in my case as well which is a bonus and you can't beat the price at all.

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had to buy this for my wife's tower, a gigabyte 970A-D3 with an AMD chip. She doesn't overclock so we just went with the stock cooler, but it turns out that her northbridge heatsink was getting very hot, even though she has the bitfenix colossus case with 2x230mm fans and another 120mm fan. CPU and GPU are super cool, but the passive cooler on the m/b was causing problems, so this fan is PERFECT with it's offset fan to cool peripheral heatsinks.

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Doesn't block the PCI-e slot on the Asus P8H61-i and P8H77-i mini-itx motherboard! It also leaves plenty of room for the RAM, so no problem there either.Although I couldn't fit its backplate behind the motherboard, so I've just used the nuts and washers.Be aware that using this heatsink in the Bitfenix prodigy case, you won't be able to fit it unless you remove the case's rear fan (or replace it with a slim one maybe)

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This cooler is mounted to an AMD Phenom II 565 unlocked to 4 cores with a Voltage bump from 1.385 to 1.400 l Stock 3.4Ghz Clock Speeds. Even in an NMedia 2000 series case this cooler is ~15 degrees cooler then the stock AMD cooler l idle. I was seeing 52-53 degrees idle with the AMD and now see 34-36 degrees idle with this cooler. I did not have time to do a Load Test.The Base of the cooler is smooth and near reflective, they have done a good job at lapping it. Instalation is straight forward and very secure.This cooler could handle a 3.8ghz Clock speed with this cooler even in an HTPC case. Overall $ per results one of the better Horizontal coolers under 4U you can buy. This review was modfied by poster @ 01-06-12 01:46 PM