{"video_id":"838qp902hyw","title":"be quiet! Dark Rock 2 CPU Heatsink Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":461,"segments":[{"start_s":7.04,"end_s":14.44,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the be quiet! 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than like here you know this kind of radius","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":412.16,"end_s":418.52,"text":"so it makes a lot of sense to do that and if it's a little bit closer it looks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":415.759,"end_s":422.759,"text":"a lot cleaner if you know you give it a little little Loop like that and then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":421.199,"end_s":429.44,"text":"just plug it in really really close makes everything look really clean if you have a longer connector on the fan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":426.879,"end_s":434.039,"text":"what it ends up looking like is kind of cheesy I don't know if I have yeah I do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.879,"end_s":438.68,"text":"have another one so this for example is a CPU fan intended to be installed on a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.0,"end_s":442.639,"text":"CPU see it comes with like a bracket to attach it to the cooler so if you 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I'm sorry it's it's old now uh dark Rock 2 no compromise silence and performance up to 180 wat TDP so yeah pretty much everything uh CPU Cooler LGA 2011 ready uses silent Wings fans which is like excellent very quiet operation at 21.2 DB Max 135 mm silent Wings pwm fan highly effective Cooling completely dark nickel plated single Tower layout that actually is pretty appealing to people like me who love that compatible with Intel and AMD all right areas of application safe cooling of high performance CPS even extreme overclocking scenarios seriously quiet PC systems with the highest standards of performance reliability highly effective cooling very quiet operations thanks to silent Wings completely dark nickel plated a stable back plate ensures vibration secure attachment even when the computer's being transmitted transmitted transported brushed aluminum cover protects the cooling fins design and quality control in Germany okay requirements of our customers a focus of everything that we do full aluminum top cover 12 steel heat pipe caps height adjustable oh height adjustable fan cool anti vibration rubber ring cooling fins with wave design six high performance heat pipes all right and it should be noted that it is a valid thing to say high performance heat pipes because not all heat pipes are oh my goodness that actually looks really good that that looks just baller I'm I'm sort of so already and I actually haven't seen the cooler yet uh this looks like a reasonably smart mounting system so it looks like they've got um uh the kind where the thing screws into the thing and then that screws into the other thing uh similar to what we've seen in the past although there are a lot of pieces which sort of gives me pause um sometimes mounting systems with lots of pieces can be a little bit challenging to put together let's have a look at what they're instructions are like though okay so they're labeling everything pretty clearly which is nice to see so basically you H here we go yeah so that's LGA 2011 is what we're using this for and that should be really easy so you basically put this thing into the uh the back plate that's already on the socket and then the cooler screws into that with these uh uh with these things here or with something else that's also in the package I suppose and then this is going to be your am d as well as older Intel sockets or lesser Intel sockets such as uh 20 1155 1156 okay they've got nice little exploded diagrams of everything so it should be pretty straightforward let's go ahead and check out the heat sink itself this looks like a great back plate though look how thick this thing is like it actually has some weight to it wow look how thick that is here slick hold this heavy right right heaviest you felt yep there you go guys and it's like solid it's like a it's like solid piece of metal like there's no flex to it whatsoever and it has the uh the anti- conductive Coatings already on it so I've seen ones in the past where you have to like put it on yourself and I'm just like that seems like a safety hazard cuz someone's not going to put it on someone's going to short out their expensive board which is going to destroy someone's CPU all of those someone's are probably like the same person just saying that like it's not like one person is going to like short out their board and someone else's CPU somewhere is going to die that's not really how it works all right so that is that a 120 mil fan cuz that doesn't look like a 12 mil that looks like a 140 oh yeah I was probably using the uh hold on Slick's giving me a hard time about something silent Wings yeah it is it's a 135 mm fan um and this is a bit of a unique design because this isn't like the regular case fan that we unboxed before because it's using a completely different mounting system system just for their CPU heat sink fan it's got a rubber ring all around the outside here so that means without any cheesy like little rubber strips that you have to sort of like stick to the heat sink fins and then they fall off and then your cats chew them up I've had this happen um the fan will always have the rubber layer on it which will keep vibration from being transmitted to the tower heat sink itself I'd say about like an A minus sort of dark nickel plating I can see a couple small blemishes but you'd never see them if you weren't picky like me and the fact that they've got this beautiful beautiful brushed aluminum top piece that looks outstanding sort of makes up for it actually cuz you'll never see the uh you'll never see the fins themselves anyway they've also got are these really metal oh my goodness metal caps on the tops of the heat pipes so that you don't have to see the ugly cuz you know how heat pipes have one clean end and then they have one like a clamped shut end so that the uh the fluid is sealed inside so you don't have to see which end is the ugly end and which end is not the ugly end they've just got caps on all them looks outstanding uh the mounting mechanism is this is actually one of my personal favorites the uh the stretch it over and put it wherever you want mounting system so that's what they mean by height adjustable I suppose because you could actually put it up higher if you had like a motherboard component that's interfering with the fan or you could put it down lower if you wanted additional air flow over the uh over the vrm of your motherboard for example and you just kind of Lodge that in there assuming you can get it in there we go and the side goes in just like that or does it yes it does aha locked into place same thing on the other side ah yes let's do the obligatory finger shot so very shiny but you can see some of the Machining marks in the base it should be noted guys a mirror finish is not necessary for good contact with the CPU in fact as you may or may not have noticed your CPU Is Not Mirror finish on the bottom so it's not like you were getting like perfect mirror to mirror contact anyway uh but that doesn't mean it's not flat although based on a quick look it has a bit of a convex shape to it which assuming you're mounting with any kind of adequate pressure can actually be an advantage because metal does have some flex and some give to it so if you're making the best contact with the middle and then putting a lot of pressure it'll actually spread the contact patch a little bit and you'll get the best cooling that way because the CPU die itself under the heat spreader is only about yay big anyhow so something to note um very shiny heat pipes little attention to detail stuff see short see short connector right why isn't everybody doing this because the CPU power pan header is never further away from like you know the CPU than like here you know this kind of radius so it makes a lot of sense to do that and if it's a little bit closer it looks a lot cleaner if you know you give it a little little Loop like that and then just plug it in really really close makes everything look really clean if you have a longer connector on the fan what it ends up looking like is kind of cheesy I don't know if I have yeah I do have another one so this for example is a CPU fan intended to be installed on a CPU see it comes with like a bracket to attach it to the cooler so if you pull that trick on this one it still ends up looking kind of stupid cuz it's huge whereas if you have a nice short uh short cable then it can look really really clean so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the be quiet! dark Rock 2 don't forget to subscribe for lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}