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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the be quiet! I'm sorry it's it's old now

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uh dark Rock 2 no compromise silence and performance up to 180 wat TDP so yeah

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pretty much everything uh CPU Cooler LGA 2011 ready uses silent Wings fans which

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is like excellent very quiet operation at 21.2 DB Max 135 mm silent Wings pwm

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fan highly effective Cooling completely dark nickel plated single Tower layout

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that actually is pretty appealing to people like me who love that compatible

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with Intel and AMD all right areas of application safe cooling of high

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performance CPS even extreme overclocking scenarios seriously quiet

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PC systems with the highest standards of performance reliability highly effective

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cooling very quiet operations thanks to silent Wings completely dark nickel

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plated a stable back plate ensures vibration secure attachment even when

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the computer's being transmitted transmitted transported brushed aluminum

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cover protects the cooling fins design and quality control in

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Germany okay requirements of our customers a focus of everything that we

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do full aluminum top cover 12 steel heat pipe caps height adjustable oh height

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adjustable fan cool anti vibration rubber ring cooling fins with wave

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design six high performance heat pipes all right and it should be noted that it

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is a valid thing to say high performance heat pipes because not all heat pipes

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are oh my goodness that actually looks really

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good that that looks just baller

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I'm I'm sort of so already and I actually haven't seen the cooler

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yet uh this looks like a reasonably smart mounting system so it looks like

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they've got um uh the kind where the thing screws

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into the thing and then that screws into the other thing uh similar to what we've

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seen in the past although there are a lot of pieces which sort of gives me

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pause um sometimes mounting systems with lots of

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pieces can be a little bit challenging to put together let's have a look at what they're instructions are like

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though okay so they're labeling everything pretty clearly which is nice

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to see so basically you

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H here we go yeah so that's LGA 2011 is

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what we're using this for and that should be really easy so you basically

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put this thing into the uh the back plate that's already on the socket and

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then the cooler screws into that with these uh uh with these things here or

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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

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sockets or lesser Intel sockets such as

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uh 20 1155

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1156 okay they've got nice little exploded diagrams of everything so it

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should be pretty straightforward let's go ahead and check out the heat sink

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itself this looks like a great back plate though look how thick this thing

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is like it actually has some weight to

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it wow look how thick that is here slick

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hold this heavy right right heaviest you

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felt yep there you go guys and it's like solid it's like a it's like solid piece

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of metal like there's no flex to it whatsoever and it has the uh the anti-

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conductive Coatings already on it so I've seen ones in the past where you

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have to like put it on yourself and I'm just like that seems like a safety

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hazard cuz someone's not going to put it on someone's going to short out their

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expensive board which is going to destroy someone's CPU all of those

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someone's are probably like the same person just saying that like it's not

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like one person is going to like short out their board and someone else's CPU

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somewhere is going to die that's not really how it works all right so that is

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that a 120 mil fan cuz that doesn't look like a 12 mil that looks like a 140 oh

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yeah I was probably using the uh hold on Slick's giving me a hard time about

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something silent Wings yeah it is it's a 135 mm fan um and this is a bit of a

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unique design because this isn't like the regular case fan that we unboxed

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before because it's using a completely different mounting system system just

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for their CPU heat sink fan it's got a rubber ring all around the outside here

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so that means without any cheesy like little rubber strips that you have to

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sort of like stick to the heat sink fins and then they fall off and then your

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cats chew them up I've had this happen um the fan will always have the rubber

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layer on it which will keep vibration from being transmitted to the tower heat

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sink itself I'd say about like an A minus

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sort of dark nickel plating I can see a couple small blemishes but you'd never

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see them if you weren't picky like me and the fact that they've got this

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beautiful beautiful brushed aluminum top piece that looks outstanding sort of

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makes up for it actually cuz you'll never see the uh you'll never see the

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fins themselves anyway they've also got are these really metal oh my goodness

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metal caps on the tops of the heat pipes so that you don't have to see the ugly

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cuz you know how heat pipes have one clean end and then they have one like a

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clamped shut end so that the uh the fluid is sealed inside so you don't have

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to see which end is the ugly end and which end is not the ugly end they've

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just got caps on all them looks outstanding uh the mounting mechanism is

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this is actually one of my personal favorites the uh the stretch it over and

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put it wherever you want mounting system so that's what they mean by height

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adjustable I suppose because you could actually put it up higher if you had

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like a motherboard component that's interfering with the fan or you could put it down lower if you wanted

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additional air flow over the uh over the vrm of your motherboard for example and

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you just kind of Lodge that in there assuming you can get it in there we go

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and the side goes in just like that or does

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it yes it does aha locked into place

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same thing on the other side ah yes let's do the obligatory

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finger shot so very shiny but you can see some of the Machining marks in the

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base it should be noted guys a mirror finish is not necessary for good contact

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with the CPU in fact as you may or may not have noticed your CPU Is Not Mirror

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finish on the bottom so it's not like

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you were getting like perfect mirror to mirror contact

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anyway uh but that doesn't mean it's not flat although based on a quick look it

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has a bit of a convex shape to it which assuming you're mounting with any kind

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of adequate pressure can actually be an advantage because metal does have some

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flex and some give to it so if you're making the best contact with the middle

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and then putting a lot of pressure it'll actually spread the contact patch a little bit and you'll get the best

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cooling that way because the CPU die itself under the heat spreader is only

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about yay big anyhow so something to

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note um very shiny heat pipes little attention to detail stuff

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see short see short connector right why

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isn't everybody doing this because the CPU power pan header is never further

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away from like you know the CPU than like here you know this kind of radius

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so it makes a lot of sense to do that and if it's a little bit closer it looks

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a lot cleaner if you know you give it a little little Loop like that and then

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just plug it in really really close makes everything look really clean if you have a longer connector on the fan

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what it ends up looking like is kind of cheesy I don't know if I have yeah I do

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have another one so this for example is a CPU fan intended to be installed on a

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CPU see it comes with like a bracket to attach it to the cooler so if you pull

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that trick on this one it still ends up looking kind of stupid cuz it's huge

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whereas if you have a nice short uh short cable then it can look really

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really clean so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my

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