Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler from be quiet!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,055 words · ~5 min read
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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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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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