Gelid Solutions GX-7 CPU Cooler Review
Ryan Martin / 12 years ago
The Gelid Blue LED Wing 12 PL fan dominates the design of the cooler from this particular angle. The fan is mounted with metal mounting clips that are actually pretty solid and stopping vibrations so have no concerns here. The Blue LEDs line are attached to the black plastic strips at the rear of the fan blades.
The rear side has nothing of note on it. Gelid do provide two more fan clips if you want to do push-pull by adding another 120mm fan.
The base is very small, probably one of the reasons it doesn’t come with LGA 2011 support. Yet the flat copper base and 7 heat pipes give hope for excellent performance – on paper at least.
Like we said in the introduction, the Gelid GX-7 boasts a “sports-car-esque” design. Its very much consistent with the Cooler Master V6/V8/V10 GT coolers except on a much more discreet scale.
The Gelid GX-7 isn’t that wide. On an LGA 1155 socket motherboard the fan only obstructs the first RAM slot meaning high profile RAM can work in slots 2 and 4. If you have all four slots populated then you’ll need low-profile RAM.
