Be Quiet! DARK ROCK PRO 4 - Air CPU Cooler Test and Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're looking at the beat quiets dark rock Pro Thor listen it says I'm here no compromise silence and performance so we'll actually see if it is quiet and if it's actually got the performance it's hard to see from the picture but on here looks like there's going to be two fans one halfway point on one on the front and then you've got to lots of fins to office Lee dispel the heat pipe so we'll have a closer look about in a few minutes and again this is what they cut is a high-end product the retail price of this product is 80 pounds and 99p so obviously for that price sort of in a water cooling territory so we've got to see what sort of performance you're actually going to get from this thing and if it actually does compete it will dispel to 250 Watts worth of power so that's pretty good so let's have a look at the rest of the box on the side you just got a basically a QR code the product information on the back you've got information about the product itself so you've got all your different information about immense pool and performance duel tower design and user friendly elegance as well as being virtually inaudible operation on the other side you've got your technical specifications on here tells you the dimensions which is quite big as one hundred and forty five point seven millimeters by a hundred and thirty six and barring a hundred and fifty two point eight so that's pretty high and the weight is one point one three kilo so that is quite heavy it's lean the made out of aluminium it supports all year eleven fifty sockets as well as 2011 - 3 + square re om 2066 also supports AMD AM 2 + a and 3/4 aim for FM 1 and FM 2 and tells you about the fans on here as well the front fun 120 millimeters bono lives 25 millimeters fake but the inner fan is actually slightly bigger it's 135 millimeters by 22 millimeters faith and the speeds runs at 1500 rpm and the middle one is 1200 the Kinect is a 4-pin and apparently it won't work for 300,000 hours on the top it just tells you what it is okay so this is what you've got inside the actual packaging so one of the strangest things wasn't right yeah actually comes with six yes six manuals for all you different languages which I thought was a little bit strange considering most places these days managed to fit it onto one manual or potentially have one manual in English and then have a QR code to scan to get the other languages up so to include that much paperwork just seems a little daft in all honesty shows you exactly how to fit it all so inside the box you've got all your brackets as you can see the pre not Intel AMD you have got some thermal paste it is unbranded so I don't know if that's their own or if they're using something else it would have been nice to have possibly some sort of well-known brands maybe like Arctic MX or something along that lines but unfortunately all I can say is it is unbranded also comes with the fan that's a central fan which isn't attached already to the core where the front warning and then you've got all your clips to clip it on to the inside of the cooler you've also got splitter there so you can connect up both fans together so beyond you use one header for your pmw switch you've got a central ball to go under the bottom of it cool which obviously bowls it onto your motherboard and the brass kids and the couple screws to do that it doesn't also include a very nice long screwdriver which is always good okay so this goes through some of the features of this product first this is according to be quiet okay so it's got to virtually inaudible silent wing of pwm fans for all shape frame on the front fan for high air pressure achieves only twenty four point three decibels at maximum fan speed seven higher performance copper heat pipes air flow optimized cooling fins cutouts enhance the random compatibility easily installable black installation kit can be mounted from both brushless aluminium top cover with diamond cut finish and German product conception design and quality control so again this is at what they trust as a high-end product and as you can see from it it does actually look pretty nice the fan using the brackets so when you have got it built up it will look something more like that obviously clips in will show you the finish it will go for the testing you've got you found on the front with you've got seven blades the one will go in the middle has nine blades and you can actually see the difference inside the two the size between the two the middle fan is quite a lot bigger you've got on the bottom so the seven in total obviously they sort of spoil it so half-white off the other way bottom rarity is actually a seven because it goes what I'll go all the way around and then down and so forth the bottom let's have a little care of showing you guys that's a very shiny bottom so you can see the showing on there that's probably one of their more well polished bottoms I've seen in a long time so it's very very good if you look at the fins will look fairly fault it's hard to see the fan all the way through it which is always good that means there's going to be a lot of things that's a lot more heated continual bass which can be a bit hard to see from here but if you have a look at the bass itself it has got fins on the base as well obviously you'll have your metal being what goes across that which will screw it into the base through the motherboard and onto the bracket on the top it looks slightly industrial looking especially where the heat pipes go through tells you it to be quiet products and there but otherwise this is the bit you're gonna see when it's inside the machine depending obviously on K style but generally if you've got a side window you've been looking at though and it's got the brushed aluminum style on there and it's pretty good to be honest with you okay so now down to the test and bowlers were tested in a real life environment inside a mid-range case with an Intel i5 9600 Cray processor running at stock speeds while testing took place no other programs were running and the machine was disconnected from the network just in case it tried to start downloading updates each test was done of three times just to make sure that the results were accurate and we averaged the temperature between all three tests to get the average okay so in this first test as you can see the dark rock Pro 4 came in at 25 degrees Celsius that was a lot cooler than anything we've tested before including water coolers which is a feat in itself so 25 degrees running at idle 30 minutes so that's pretty good so let's have a look see how it performs when the processor has been running at a hundred percent for 30 minutes and as you can see here it performs very well not as good as the Arctic freeze the two water cooler but it still performs extremely well and better than all the other air coolers we have tested coming in at 3 degrees cooler than the nearest competition in this test we're looking at the maximum temperature the CPU actually got up to during the test and as you can see here it still form pretty well it came jointing first with the freezer 34 duo from Arctic and was only two degrees behind the Arctic freezer two water cooler it's free tests they're basically identical as a first three tests but we run the fans on full speed rather than automatic and as you can see on this dark rock Pro 4 outperforms all the competition including the water cooler in this test we took in the average temperature again but with the fans on full and as you can see here is only one degree beyond the Arctic water cooler and still a lot cooler than it's near as a competition which is the Arctic freezer 34 duo done this last test we check the maximum temperature of the CPU go up to during the testing and it equalled the water cooler at 56 degrees which is 3 degrees cooler than the nearest air cooler which is very good going so in basics with this cooler you're actually getting a similar sort of cooling performance so you would get with a water cooler specifically the Arctic freezer - which is very good for an air cooler things to know though this cool that he is big and when I say big it is really big and it takes up a lot of room if you've got oversized memory you may struggle to fit it in where you were fine with our RGB memory because it's not over the standard size but if you get something what's got an extremely tall heatsink on you're not going to be able to fit the water the cooler in there ideally you need to fit it outside of the case so that means taking the motherboard out of your case if you've already got it in there and fit it that way it can be done internally inside the case but it's gonna be a bit more fiddly to do those who like lots of LED lights on their fans and coolers well unfortunately this doesn't have any of those on there which to be honest is this can be a good finger as well because not everyone wants RGB lighting over everything and I'm glad they've actually focused on the cooling aspect rather than putting flashing lights and making it look like Las Vegas another thing to know that this product is quite expensive in comparison to a lot of coolers out there the recommended retail price for this product is 80 UK pounds I must admit I have seen online a little bit cheaper around about 7 to UK pounds but that's still expensive compared to a lot of air coolers it's in the sort of range you would get a lot of 240 milk water call us saying that there's only really one award we can give this product due to the performance of it and that's the hell year award\n"