If high performance computing is your game, you will need some serious cooling solutions. Gigabyte’s new G-Cooler 2 Pro is a CPU fan designed to keep your CPU cool during intensive loads or overclocking.
The package comes with mount for both and AMD and Intel systems. The mounting bracket fits under the motherboard, so you will most probably need to remove it from your casing. Once mounted, we have to say the G-Cooler 2 Pro was quite a sight. The large shiny ovoid looming precariously over the board. Despite its size, the G-Cooler 2 Pro doesn’t in the way of any of the motherboard’s components. If anything, you might encounter problems fitting everything into your casing.
The G-Cooler 2 Pro has a high and low option for the fan speed. At high, the fan is pretty noisy. At low, however, it is indeed very quiet. While the CPU was at idle, we measured the G-Cooler 2 to be around 3 degrees Celcius cooler than a stock Intel fan. At 100% CPU load, the G-Cooler 2 Pro managed to be a full 10 degrees Celcius cooler compared to a stock Intel fan. Even with the fan set too low, the G-Cooler 2 Pro was only 2 degrees warmer than at full speed. We then tried to overclock the CPU, which resulted in the stock temperature nearing dangerous levels. With the G-cooler however, the improvement was much more noticeable; nearly 20 degrees than a stock fan.
Gigabyte’s G-Cooler 2 Pro lives up to its expectations and is definitely recommended of you want to meddle with overclocking.
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