Cooler Master Gemin II SF524

The Cooler

At the top of the cooler, we see the 1300RPM 120MM fan. It’s got this great looking translucent black colour scheme that offsets the aluminium fins really nicely.

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I do think Cooler Master tightened the fan a little too much from the factory and wasn’t very evenly tightened either. However, some quick work with a screwdriver soon fixes this.

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“Please peel off label before you use it” Keeps the base shiny in shipping.

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The base, slightly different to the normal heatpipe direct touch style we’re used too from Coolermaster. Although it’s not been polished to a mirror finish, the base is both flat and smooth which is what’s important.

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Five 6mm heatpipes laid out through the base. You can also see how thick it is before reaching the heatpipes, this is definitely going to help spread the heat between them.

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At the fin array with five heatpipes going through it, we see mounting holes for both 120MM fans and 140mm fans.

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So I attached a 140mm fan. Quite nicely it fits too.

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The fins directly above the base are attached to help cool it further. After that the fins are all shorter to allow space for tall memory heat spreaders.

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The AMD stock cooler is designed the way is it is for a reason and that is so air expelled from the cooler is blown over system components such as the VRM area and RAM to help keep them cool. The problem with tower coolers is that very little air tends to reache either of those areas. This is where the Gemin II SF524 comes in.

3 responses to “Cooler Master Gemin II SF524”

  1. yeah the s 542 has a pmw fan and spins up to 1700rpm and coolermaster rates it up to 72cfm versus the cfm of the sf version which is 56 or close to it would be nice to see diference between them

  2. I really liked this review. But I think that you had notice about existing Cooler Master Gemini II S524 (not SF524). Many people could make a mistake with that.

    And it would be very interesting for me to see a such test for CM Gemini II S524.

    And you have to check, that in testing screens you wrote “CM Gemini II S542”, when it is “524”. Yeah, that is a small mistake, but it also can cause some misunderstanding.

    1. Thanks for the comment Kot. We’ll look into fixing these errors.

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