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welcome to my review of the dark Rock Pro 3 from be

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quiet the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now

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available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to

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learn more funny right just when you thought I was going to stop making jokes

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about be quiet!'s company name ha anyway the dark Rock Pro 3 is their highest end

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CPU Cooler and part of their no compromise this line of products over

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and be quiet! that means maximum performance and minimum noise you can

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tell that's what they were going for because it says each of these things almost half a dozen times in the

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introductory paragraph on the products page so we'll start with the accessories

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inside the box you'll find the massive dual heat pipe Tower itself a wide or

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rather dual Tower heat pipe cooler excuse me a wide variety of solidly

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Built Metal mounting bits and pieces a manual back plate some thermal compound

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and a couple of very thought designed fan Clips in case the two of be quiet!'s

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renowned silent Wings pwm 130 mm fans

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that are included with it with anti vibration mounts and all that in case

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those aren't enough for you and you really want to add a third one now on to

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the good part the dark Rock Pro 3 is one of the sexiest dual Tower heat pipe

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coolers I have ever encountered it's not small and mounting high-profile RAM in

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slots that it overhangs is not going to happen but as dark as this product is we

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couldn't expect it to be small right the wonderfully shiny base has seven heat

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pipes soldered into it that run up the entire height of the towers and on our

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way up we find a staggered fin design with fairly wide spacing for Optimal

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Performance with lower RPM fans that's good for silence the fins themselves are

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aluminum with dots on the surface for a slightly increased turbulence in surface

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area and to cap it all off we find a gorgeous brushed aluminum finished top

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piece Noctua as much as I love them could stand to learn a thing or two

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about how to make a great looking cooler from be quiet! but it's not all about

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looks so it's time for me to hand off to Luke to cover mounting and performance

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analysis he truly is a mounting expert and his performance ain't bad either I

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think it would be fair to say that the insulation process of the dark Rock 3

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was horrific it took me quite a while to essentially give up and get lonus to

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come and help me this has only happened one other time and it was for the exact

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same reason I can't fit my giant fingers

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under the cooler to screw it in and it doesn't have any really good way to

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actually do that they do Supply you with a wrench this terrible little tiny

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miniature wrench which has to be used

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either improperly at an angle like this

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or properly but impossibly at an angle like this which is not great if they had

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a wrench that was bigger that would help in terms of overall length or if it had

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some sort of angle partway through so that you could use it like this but the

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actual wrench bit at the end was going flat flat along with the motherboard

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that would have been fantastic they have neither of these options furthermore as

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many of you know our standardized cooling procedure is to strap on knock

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to a fans onto every single cooler that we use to try and standardize everything

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as much as we can that was not possible with this cooler due to the fact of how

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the the arms are made and how the fans are made because the mounting points for

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the fans are actually uh Midway on the

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frame instead of on each possible end of the frame so the the wire thing that you

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use to strap the fan onto the cooler is not as long and it can't reach on a KN

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to a fan I probably could have gotten the 120 mm fan to work but not the

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larger fan so I decided why go halfway

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and just use be quiet! fans on both original mounting points like they had

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it from the beginning for our load test we have a 6870 reference running

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combuster just to kind of heat up the ambience inside the case also our 4820k

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is running at 1.3 volts at 4.0 GHz in

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our load test while it's running Prime 95 to also heat up the cooler and that

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is our load test for idle we're running the least amount of programs possible

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and normally this is a very standardized test but because we don't have the noctu

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a fans in it it is going to be different

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than the other results on this sheet so it is has the most amount of inaccuracy

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on this sheet that being said it did lose out to most things that are on the

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sheet but as lonus has probably talked to you about earlier it is quite a bit

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more inexpensive compared to the other ones so what do you guys think

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personally the mounting difficulties are a little bit too much for me considering

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I would have to have someone help me install this in my own computer which is

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a little frustrating personally but again what do you guys think tell me in

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