Cooler Master's GeminII heatsink overlord

While the PC gaming elite are duking it out with NVIDIA over their 8800 GTX Vista driver problems, Cooler Master is looking onward and upward when it comes to pimping your rig. Assuming your box has enough room to withstand what is, in essence, a friggin' enormous finned slab of metal half the size of your motherboard, you may want to check out the forthcoming GeminII mega heatsink. If its sheer weight doesn't snap your motherboard into pieces when mounted, you'll game soundly knowing your AMD X2, Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme is being cooled by two 120mm fans blowing over a few dozen flight-worthy aluminum fins and six copper heat pipes. No price, but you'll drop yet another couple hundred bucks this March for a part you'll undoubtedly have to replace the next time AMD and Intel decide to change up their processor mounts.

[Thanks, Mike]

[Richard Lai @ Feb 4th 2007 6:40AM]

I still think that putting the tower in the fridge would be a better solution.

Anyone want to try converting a mini fridge (the ones which store beer only) into a computer?

[MearWolf @ Feb 4th 2007 7:03AM]

I wanna try takin the heatsinks out of a fridge and wackin them on my PC

[Dave @ Feb 4th 2007 6:54AM]

Richard Lai,

It'd be way too hard to avoid condensation in a refrigerator.

[Brian @ Feb 4th 2007 7:51AM]

Plus, the math just doesn't work. Refrigerators and freezers just don't remove heat as fast as a processor kicks it out. Even if they did, the compressors in fridges and freezers are not meant to run 24/7. You would burn it out in short order.

[Andir3.0 @ Feb 4th 2007 7:33AM]

The fridge computer has been done...but with disasterous results.

[dukemeister @ Feb 4th 2007 8:36AM]

with a large enough surface area of the heat dissipator, and a well managed moisture condenser a minifridge PC would work pretty well..

why was it previously disaster mate?

[Pedro @ Feb 4th 2007 8:50AM]

See here:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=373263

[Richard Lai @ Feb 4th 2007 8:48AM]

Ah well, there's always the vegetable oil solution: http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans1/page2.html

[Foamator @ Feb 4th 2007 10:08AM]

I, for one, welcome our... ah, forget it.

[Andrew H. @ Feb 4th 2007 11:05AM]

@Foamator

damn... beat me to it

[Foamator @ Feb 4th 2007 12:29PM]

@Andrew H

I'm just surprised the first comment didn't say it!

[Foamator @ Feb 4th 2007 12:29PM]

@Andrew H

I'm just surprised the first comment didn't say it.

[Foamator @ Feb 4th 2007 12:30PM]

Oops... sorry for the double (triple?) post. My browser bitched at me.

[Frankenstein Black @ Feb 4th 2007 2:20PM]

MEH!


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[supercujo @ Feb 5th 2007 1:29AM]

"Damn, where's the finesse and style? Slapping a big chunk of metal on your CPU might help temperatures, but when you peek through the case window it looks ugly as hell. My Zalman cooler might not get as low a temperature as the GeminII, but it looks a whole lot better."

What a moron...

A heatsink is there to do a job, this heatsink looks pretty impressive but isn't all that beautiful. Who really cares when it is inside your computer... And why the hell do you have a case window anyway? Do you want everyone to know you spent more on your video card than your car? And does this monster vid card help compensate for something pretty personal?

[Lonnie McClure @ Feb 5th 2007 3:08AM]

Too bad a motherboard standard hasn't been introduced that puts the CPU socket on the "backside" of the motherboard. With a case designed for such a specification, the heatsink could draw in cool outside air directly, and even exhaust it back the outside. Also, the heatsink could literally be the size of the side of the case.

Of course, we are talking about an industry that each time that when switching from PCI to PCI Express, missed the opportunity to flip the components to the other side of the board (as they were with ISA boards), so that heat producing components (especially on the graphics card) would be facing upward in a tower case.

[JJ @ Feb 6th 2007 12:47AM]

That's a big heatsink if it needs 2 120mm fans. o.O

I wonder if any motherboard has ever been destroyed by large heatsinks...