GEIL GMCEC01 Fan & Heatsinks

Pros: Looks very impressive. The manufacturing quality is very high. It's made from very lightweight metal but taking that into consideration, it's as sturdy as can be expected. I studied all the pictures and went to the website looking for additional information but I was still not able to understand how the device worked. It was all those "cooling fins" that threw me. They look like they must perform some function otherwise why would they be there?

Cons: Package was very hard to open. This is relevent if you think you may want to return the device if it doesn't work as expected. When attempting to mount the device I found the indents on the clamp do not fit the retention clips. They're a small delta shape whereas the retention clips are much bigger therefore resulting in not a very secure mount. What I found extremely surprising was the fact that all those fins serve no practical purpose. They're just eye candy. There's no way they could transfer heat away from the memory modules. Thus, the device is nothing more than a fancy mounting gadget for one small fan. The temperature being displayed is the temp of the air being pulled down through the fan. In other words, it's the temp of the air inside the case, not the temp of the modules themselves. There is nothing coming in contact with any of the memory modules. Only the clamps come in contact with the module retention clips. That's it.

Overall Review: It would be truly interesting to see some Geil engineer or employee respond to my comments with an explanation of what they were thinking when they designed this thing. Perhaps it's just targeting that segment of the market that doesn't care much about function as long as it looks like it's doing something. In this case it's blowing some air on the memory modules plus it's got pretty lights displaying the temperature of the air inside the case. Had it fit securely I would have kept it. I live in Hawaii and shipping is always a problem (as in very costly) so sometimes it's not worth returning an item. However, in this case, after restocking discount and subtracting postage, I got $22 back. Live and learn. I couldn't figure out how it worked from the pictures because there was nothing to figure out. I thought something must be hidden from view....but there wasn't. It's just a fan, fancy no doubt, but still, it's just a fan sitting over the memory an inch or two.

Pros: This fan looks amazing in my case. It keeps my RAM Temps at around 21c average. The Blue LED Display with red lettering is a really cool feature. I would recommend this to anyone looking to give their computer that extra eye candy!

Cons: Price...but I would buy again. No other cons yet!

Overall Review: Get it...it looks amazing!

Pros: Great memory fan that is equipped with heatsinks as well as the fan. Lights up the inside of the case.

Cons: The LED text reduces to just "EVO Cycl" when the computer is on and windows has booted, no longer shows temp or fan RPM's.

Overall Review: Does the job of cooling memory. I have 4 sticks of DDR3 Ram on an Asus Striker II Extreme and the cooler DOES keep the memory very cool.

Pros: Worked right out of the box. I didnt have any of the issues with the display. Easy install.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: The only thing its good for is the fan. Heatsink is just show, and the display only shows the temp of the air being pulled through it (not the memory). It looks sweet in my antec skeleton.

Pros: Looks VERY good. Provides basic cooling of memory modules. Surface temperature dropped from 40C to 34C with the fan. Bright multicolored LED. Wide enough to fit over 5 modules and cools up to 6 (for i7 users)

Cons: LEDs are not programmable. Would have liked to have the ability to program them with a custom message or animation. Heat sinks do nothing at all besides look cool. Sometimes the moving text is a little glitchy, but not too much to detract from the visual aesthetics. Spends too much time displaying the company name and model.

Overall Review: Not the best 'cooler' out there, but we all know that to be good, you have to look good, and this definitely looks good. If one were creative enough, you could run heat pipes through the radiator down to the modules and use thermal pads to make the physical connection, but who really wants to go that far?

Pros: It works as advertised. Adjustable for different heights of memory and the readout on the fan is a real nice touch too. I believe it reads ambient case temps more than the memory itself unless it just works that good. It reads the same temps as the case temps on my other temperature display. Looks real nice in a windowed case no matter what your color scheme is. I'm probably going to get a couple more so if they discontinue these in the future I'll have a few in reserve.

Cons: NEWP!

Overall Review: On some motherboards, the thumb screws may be a little close to the back of your video card. This can be fixed real easliy with standard 6/32 case screws to increase the gap between the two. Also, a few motherboard manufacturers (ASUS, MSI) and going with this new memory retention setup where one side doesn't have clips just friction slots and this may not work on those as it uses the retention clips to mount solidly on your motherboard.

Pros: Geil's GMCEC01 allowed me to run my two sets(total 8GB) of Gskill F2-9600CL5D-4GBPI at 1333 with 5-5-5-15 timings. Before utilizing the cooler I was running fine in Win7, but push the memory in games I would get a blue screen or game lock-up every 15-20 minutes. After installing fan ran Modern Warefare2 for over two hours with no issues! By the way my MB is the excellent GA-EP45-UD3P rev. 1.6. Love the lighted fan that indicates Temp and fan speed.

Cons: None

Pros: Nice fit and easy to install. Isolated rubber mounting to memory slot clips. Solid design and works well. Reports temperature and fan speed. Nice touch to any MB and looks great. Free with combo deal so price was outstanding!

Cons: Well, as with many accessories some things just don't fit. If you have one of the new ASUS boards like my Maximus III, this cooler is not designed to work with only one set of memory retainers. Not a knock against the cooler, but I couldn't use it on my new build.

Overall Review: Still giving it 5 eggs just because it works. Ended up in my wifes PC and working great. Large heat sinks will also interfere if close to memory slots. I recommend anyone considering this to do their homework and measure for clearance between last memory slot and overhang dimension of cooler. It looks adjustable for any type heat spreader with multiple holes for height adjustment.