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Cooler Master GeminII S524 - CPU Cooler with Aluminum Fins and 5 Heat Pipes (RR-G524-18PK-R2)

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  • Balance cooling between CPU and components on the motherboard.
  • Higher ground clearance for better memory module compatibility.
  • Larger heatsink for better performance.
  • 12cm PWM fan provides versatile performance for full loading efficiency and for quiet idling.
  • Supports Intel sockets LGA 1366/1155/775/2011
  • AMD: Phenom II X4/Phenom II X3/Phenom II X2/Phenom X4/Phenom X3/Athlon II X4/Athlon II X3/Athlon II X2/Athlon X2/Athlon/Sempron
  • Intel: Core i7 Extreme/Core i7/Core i5/Core i3/Core2 Extreme/Core2 Quad/Core2 Duo/Pentium/Celeron
  • Supports AMD sockets FM1/FM2/AM3+
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Technical Details

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Product Details

Size Name: Full
  • Item Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B005SEZBXY
  • Item model number: RR-G524-18PK-R2
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: October 4, 2011
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Product Description

Size: Full

GeminII S524 features a larger Heat sink for improved cooling performance, and increased memory module clearance to support high end memory modules featuring large Heat sinks of their own. It comes equipped with a modular 120mm fan with an ideal noise performance ratio throughout its supported range of rpm. It can be upgraded to a 140mm fan to further boost its cooling performance or opt for a super low noise, low rpm fan.

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Customer Reviews

One of the best CPU coolers money can buy, and cheap too!
Nick
Besides that it works incredibly well keeping my processor very cool and not having to spin up to high rpm's to do it.
R. Drake
This cooler is low-profile enough to fit in my mini-tower case and tall enough to clear my standard-height memory.
K. Smith

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful By PepprmintPatty on March 8, 2013
Size Name: Full Verified Purchase
This is a nice little budget cooler. I installed it and instantly got a 20 degree drop in idle temperatures. It works as advertised.

This cooler took me a long time to install since my bags were mislabeled. You can't just remove the old heatsink/fan and plop it down. You'll have to remove the back plate already on your motherboard. If you're not comfortable doing this, it might not be the product for you.

This CPU cooler is best installed when you're building the system. It will be a MAJOR pain in the @$$ to install afterwards since you have to remove EVERYTHING and pull the motherboard out of the case.

My best advice would be to watch an install video on Youtube so you can get an idea of what it will be like in your setup. Once I did that and threw away the instructions. This will also give you an idea of the actual size of it. It's way bigger than the pictures make it look.

My setup:

Silverstone GD05 (If you have this case and an optical drive, DO NOT BUY IT, you will most likely lose the drive bay)
Asus F1A75-M PRO
G.Skill Ripjaws memory

Pros:
* Keeps your CPU cooler than a stock cooler
* Cheap
* Quiet
* Heatsink design clears performance ram heatsink (Ripjaws etc.)
* Supports wide range of CPU/Motherboard combos
* Fits HTPC case
* Supports a larger fan if you need it

Cons:
* The instructions blow chunks, bags were mislabeled.
* This thing is bigger than it looks
* Need to remove the back plate to install
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful By Aaron Schug on April 22, 2012
Size Name: Full Verified Purchase
This CPU cooler fits perfectly in my mid size case(NZXT Guardian 921). It was actually a little bit larger than I thought it would be but it looks pretty mean sitting back there illuminated by the light produced by my fan. This thing works very well for my i-7 2600k processor, cooling it down very efficiently. I am not sure it will do well when it comes to overclocking though. Most people recommend liquid cooling for those situations. Very happy with my purchase!

9-23-12

I feel like I have had this cooler long enough to talk bout how it has performed for the last year. I have had my CPU overclocked to about 4Ghz/sec for the last 8 months or so, running high end games and other programs for writing music. I have no problem keeping my CPU cool and I even have a mid size case that doesn't have a huge amount of airflow. This cooler was cheap and still keeps my CPU at perfectly healthy operating temperatures. I still highly recommend this cooler!

3-18-13

I finally ran into cooling issues about a month ago. After around an hour or more of playing some games, i started getting blue screen crashes from high system temperatures. I was overclocking both my CPU and GPU SLI system. So this cooler does have a threshold. if you aren't trying to overclock everything like I am, I still would say this is a good cooler. I recently switched to a Thermaltake water 2.0 pro for my cooling needs. Its quite amazing how big the temperature differences are. Again, it took quite a lot of overclocking to finally overtake this coolers threshold.

PC Specs:
NZXT Guardian 921 Case (5 fans)
asus p8z68v-pro/gen3 motherboard
intel i7 2600k CPU
corsair vengance 8GB ram 1600mhz
Seagate barracuda 2TB 7200 rpm hdd
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro CPU Cooler
Cooler master silent pro gold 1200W power supply
EVGA GTX 570 sli
Asus cd/dvd rw disk drive
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Proudrooster on October 16, 2012
Size Name: Full Verified Purchase
I built a HTPC (Home Theater PC) and am running Plex, Servio, Handbrake, VLC, and various game emulators. With the stock AMD CPU Heatsink/Fan was really annoying. I cleaned the old heatsink goo off using the Antec two step removal process and then installed the new heatsink. Note: If you have an AMD FM1 the plate you need that goes under the motherboard is in the INTEL bag. The install went well and it will take a third hand to help you stabilize the cantilevered heatsink when doing the install. The install is all pictures so if you can read and follow pictures, it is easy. I had enough room in my case to rotate it away from the RAM so the RAM slots are clear and so are all of the card slots.

Idle, my temps are about 50F and when all CPUs are cranking running handbrake or transcoding a video for 15 minutes I see temps around 93F max, however even at max CPU the fan is barely audible. With the AMD cool-n-quiet at idle the fan barely spins, in fact it stops/spins/stops/spins. I am not sure why but and going to look at modifying this in the BIOS and see if I can keep the fan either spinning or not spinning, but not starting/stoppping.

If you need a low-profile quiet cooler, this should work out fairly well.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Cry on October 30, 2012
Size Name: Slim Verified Purchase
This heat sink is insanely wide. Make sure your ram is does not have the faddish heatspreaders that extend up above the top of the ram. I have 1.5mm gap between my first stick of ram and the spreader.

Also, because the sink is so wide, it is very awkward screwing the sink in. Finally the clips that hold the fan to the sink come off repeatedly during install.

The above issues are probably par for a low-profile heat sink.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Maestro on July 1, 2012
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I just finished throwing together my Micro ATX build a couple of weeks ago based out of the Apevia X-QPACK2 X-QPACK2-AL/500 - Desktop - micro ATX - power supply 500 Watt - black, silver - USB/FireWire/Audio, so height was gonna be an issue here for cooler. For slim coolers I was undecided with this or Scythe BIG SHURIKEN 2 Rev B. 5-Heatpipe Universal Low Profile CPU Cooler (SCBSK-2100). I decided to go with Cooler Master since I had great luck with there products in the past, they're a reputable company in CPU cooling who pretty much pioneered Heat Pipes, and I figured that direct contact heat pipes would have better thermal transfer vs not.

As shown and advertised, the cooler sits really low at a specified 59mm tall, and while its very wide, I had no problems of clearance of my motherboard components. The pipes or heatsink didn't even come close the little stuff on the motherboard or the ram.

The installation is probably the only rough part, but lots of good aftermarket cooler are anyway. Like other Cooler Master coolers, this will come with a mounting plate that goes on the underside of the motherboard, meaning the board will probably have to come out for installation. On some other coolers I put in, the mounting Plate is held in place with the standoff bolts through the top side.
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