Bought: Akasa Gemini cooler

I wont do a full review yet as Iv had it for roughly 5h, but after the weekend Ill do a review.

So far, it has worked really well. Its like designed for the Zeptos as it sucks air from behind the laptop and blows it out to the left (perfect as the GPU+CPU is on the left ). It has lowered my CPU temps while playing WoW from around 85 to around 80 (often lower). For the GPU temps Im unable to get as Rivatuner doesnt seem to like 174.74 (Vista 32). Its not showing the temps.
But most important: No judder! So temps are kept under 96C for the GPU! (Had this small judder problem caused by temps)

Its quite silent, tho there clearly is a noise coming from it (quite annoying noise actually as it sounds like something is hitting the fan blades.

So wait for a full review!

Akasas own page with speccs

 

I've found this review and there seems that there are no big differences in temperature.
Can you give us your small own review ??

 

RIght, so now the weekend is over, and here we go with the review:

I bought the Akasa Gemini Laptop cooler for 20€ (sales). Its a piece of PVC plastics with two fans fitted underneath



Together with the 6625wd it makes a perfect partner. The fans draw air from behind the laptop and then blow it out between the ridges to the left (looked on from the front). This makes it perfect for the 6625wd as the CPU&GPU is located on the left side of the case.


As you see theres holes on the left side of all the ridges.


Noise
The fans have a small fast clicky sound when on wich is a bit annoying when its quiet around (idle PC) but when laptop fan revs up the sound of the laptop fan takes over the noise.

Looks&Feels
With a 15,4" laptop, the cooler pretty much disappears exept for a small strip in the front. The laptop is lifted about 5cm in the back and 2 cm in the front (bottom of laptop). Together with the laptop the front is lifted 3,5cm off the table. I think this sometimes can get a bit uncomfortable but its not a big problem.

Heat
Now Ill bring up the point that most of you probably are interested in

CPU:
Idle temps: Before 54-58 Fan off: No change Fan on: Not tested nor needed (annoying sound remember? )
Gaming temps: Before ~84C Fan off: ~83C Fan on: 78-79C (Higher than average room temperature (lan party))

GPU:
Idle: Fan off: 66C
Gaming temps: Before 94-96C (throttling) Fan off: 89C Fan on: 85-86C

Holy crap! 10C with just a cooler!

So there we have it, absolutely a change and the highest speed doesnt kick in at all (without cooler it randomly kicked in).
About the GPU throttling for reaching 96C:
GONE!
I had this small issue of the GPU throttling every once a while for reaching 96C to cool down but that one is now gone. And even more impressive is that at earlyer lan partys, the GPU was throttling very often wich got annoying, but at this lan party, I had no throttling even when playing Garrys Mod (HL2 Mod, much more demanding than the HL2 game). So the temps are reduced for real with the cooler!

My system:
Check signature
008 BIOS
174.74 Video driver

Things I did before monitoring GPU temps:
Reinstalled Rivatuner (newer version)
Resetted driver

Feel free to ask about more info

 

Try using hwmonitor from CPUID to monitor your temps. The program can be left running and seems to give very accurate results for me. It gives a min as well as a max temp for all the sensor it can see so you do't need it in the foreground to see what temps you hit during gaming, also means you don't need to have any sort of OSD running. It might help as you are having trouble with rivatuner.

 

Review updated!

(GPU temps added)

 

Nice temperature drop. Shame the laptop gets that hot in the first place, that it needs extra, aftermarket, cooling.

 

temps dropped one more degre today

 

This is something wierd. After rebooting after the reset (of the driver), my temps went back to the temps they were before the cooler came in, but I get lots of more frames. Im talking about 15+ fps more!

I think the resetting did that lots of more power is taken out of the GPU, wich partially is great, but temps are hitting 96C (where GPU starts to stutter). But luckily it aint rising fast from 94 to 96C (after throttle).

We need higher fan speeds Zepto! (for 6625:s)