welcome to my unboxing and first look at the be quiet! 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
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