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Old 07-01-08   #11 (permalink)
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whatever happened to the TRUE being the best hs?

The fan boys haven't seen the thread yet.
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I believe the reviews say it's NOT that awesome? Good, yes. Best, no.
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I think its just because its the most used out there. There are a very few amount of people that i know that use this cooler, but if they did , i bet they would be surprised. I chose it because it made sense. 2 120MM fans, giant. Makes sense to you dont u think? :P
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Yeah, except mine's crap! I'm thinking of getting a TRUE, just to see!
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whatever happened to the TRUE being the best hs?
The TRUE is a very capable cooler as well but it seems like the Gemini isn't talked about or used that much. Doesn't mean it isn't good at what it does.
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Even if the TRUE is better, I doubt it looks as attractive.
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Duckie, you are right. It's not the best but because of some peoples cases and some peoples hardware, some coolers are better than others. This is a great cooler for a great price and I'm glad to see it working as well as it can for the majority of the small population that have it. PEOPLES CHOICE FTW!

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I rock the gemin II with 2x SS FM121s...Keeps my e8400 @ 3.6 nice and cool...
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Comparing a decent air heatsink to a nasty POS water cooling setup = fail!


Alot of high end air heatsinks will out-perform a low end water cooling setup.

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why have two fans when one kaze does the same?

i still think a true and a mem fan is the best combo. when i mounted mine like you guys my memory was still hot. Now i have seperate northbridge fan under the geminii II, and a sep mem fan. You maybe able to adopt this set up (see pic) to have more space for memory selection.

I had such a poor time with this cooler that i ended up using the stock one instead for a while on stock speeds. after a lot of modding i fianlly figured out the best config for oc:

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