be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 Quiet Cooling CPU Cooler | Immensely High Airflow | 7 high-Performance Copper Heat Pipes | Speed Switch | Thermal Grease | BK036

Wonderful CPU Cooler
The Dark Rock Pro 5 was used for two builds based on the Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 motherboard. One build went in a new Corsair Frame 4000D ATX Mid Tower case, the other in a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 case from 2007. The CPU in both builds is the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, a 120W part for which this 270W cooler has plenty of capacity. A middle fan sits between two radiators, covered by a plate bearing the be quiet! logo that is held in place with magnets. Underneath the cover plate is a Q/P switch that allows the cooler to run in Quiet or Performance mode. The fan wiring allows the two fans to be daisy chained and connected to a single CPU_FAN header that is typically located just above the CPU socket on the motherboard. Hardware is included with the cooler that supports Intel 1851, 1700, 1200, 1150, 1151 and 1155 sockets, and AMD AM4 and AM5 sockets. The directions were clear and installation was very easy. The cooler seems to have enough capacity relative to a 120W CPU that the fans tends to stay at low RPM and are inaudible, and it really looks great on a black motherboard in a black case. The Dark Rock Pro 5 is a high quality, well designed and manufactured CPU cooler that should run for a long time.

What a beast of a fan cooler
The moment you open it, out of the box, it’s BIG, HEAVY, and you can tell it’s made out of quality stuff. LOVE the long screw driver that it came with. In fact, I used the damn screw driver for everything to build my entire computer – thank you for including that! Installation was a breeze (just be careful not to apply too much pressure to the CPU like I did like a newbie, had to figure out why the PC would boot, oops). Connects easily to the motherboard. Thing runs DEAD SILENT even on performance mode. When I play games, I hear my GPU fans revving up but never this CPU cooler. I went for the silent – no RGB – classy setup with Fractal North mid tower case, silent wing case fans x3. I love my setup and the way it turned out! I’ll always buy be quiet products from now on.

Almost perfect, but…
This would’ve easily been 5-stars because the cooler works great! BUT, the instructions were a bit vague and there is BARELY enough lead wire on the fan cables to install it without much more work. This should have been a very straight-forward installation by simply installing the bracket and mounting the fan. I had to remove the video card as well so I could reach the lead wires under the cooler to connect the fans together after attaching them. I don’t think an additional 2-3 inches would’ve increased costs that much.The cooler itself works very well and one of the fans is adjustable to be able to fit over the RAM modules. Again, this idea wasn’t really thought out because if I had all four DIMM slots populated, the cooler would fit but I wouldn’t be able to put the glass panel back on the case.All-in-all it’s a decent air cooler, but needs some refinement on the design and cable lengths. It is extremely quiet even when you have it running at full speed. A great value for the money, but make sure there’s plenty of room!

For an air cooler this is a really solid choice. It is very big though, so make sure you have enough RAM clearance. You can move the front fan up/left to avoid blocking RAM sticks, but it kind of ruins the look. In my case it fit perfectly with my RAM so no issues.It’s super quiet — during gaming I barely notice it — and it keeps my 5800X nice and cool. Overall, great cooler if your case and RAM have the space.

Uno dei migliori dissipatori ad aria in commercio. Installazione molto semplice nonostante la mole imponente e la possibilità di regolare, con estrema semplicità. l’altezza della ventola frontale non ha prezzo