Review on 🌬️ Silent Cooling Power: Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler with 250W TDP, BK022 by Jnis Zeile ᠌

Name: 🌬️ Silent Cooling Power: Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler with 250W TDP, BK022
Item: 🌬️ Silent Cooling Power: Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler with 250W TDP, BK022
Rating: 4

May 03, 2023

The quality of the product is perfect, I would recommend this product to my friends.

I chose between Noctua D15 and D15s and Dark ROCK PRO 4, I chose the latter because of the price + greater memory compatibility, plus reviews as the most optimal. The owner of Noctua U9B SE, an old cooler, but very effective for XX700-class processors. in idle time 10850k (frequencies in idle time are irreducible. Cant of Windows) at the Rock 38-39, in the past 45-46. In the bluebench, the p23 multicore test was up to 91 degrees, in the past it went beyond 100, it immediately went to the nominal by frequencies. The fact that it holds the stress test with the ABX instruction is already good, but still the Rock4 is 3 times larger than my baby Noctua and turned out to be only slightly more effective (the thermal paste on the Noctua was native H1). Fortunately, I'm not going to drive percents, because. overclocking gives the strongest zhor proca. I'm even ready to reduce 100-200 MHz if only he ate less, so far I killed the turbo boost when performing ABX at 200 MHz. Of course, you can’t compare it with the AMD 5xxx series in terms of zhor and heat transfer. I basically avoided dropsy because of the fragility and periodic maintenance, plus I didn’t want to be paranoid and stroking forever through the glass of the case, something flowed there or not. I won’t take such Intel processors for the future, the transition was from 4790 without K, which is quite noticeable in terms of performance, but the last one ate 2-3 times less. If you have 10900k, think about it and better overpay, take D15, it’s a little at its peak, but still better, and if you really want black, then D15 has a Chromax version, also of a similar appearance. I didn’t underestimate the rating much, after all, everything that is stated, everything that is tested, it holds, I just didn’t find 10900k tests, only 9900k, and even 10850k and even more so you will not find with it. Waiting for a miracle, there was no miracle. Maybe a little later I’ll buy an MX4 and try to test it with it, but it’s just a pity if it turns out to be worse than the complete one and I have to take something else, now even thermal paste is expensive.

Pros

- top cooler number 2, the first Noctua D15 (usually 1k more expensive), there is also Assassin 3 from the same level as DR4Pro, like Fantex - quite quiet - a beautiful black design, but without cooler lights, pure dark dark, without RGB, someone says that black paint on the contrary makes it worse for heat dissipation, as for me I like the Noctua silver version more, maybe it’s more practical by a couple of degrees, I’m not chasing appearance - an interesting working design (look carefully at the heatsink from all sides when you buy it, I haven't seen anything like this yet), convenient for installing memory sticks higher, you don't have to raise the fan higher, like in Noctua, Fantex and some more. not a very large supply, but it is there. Gskill will be at the limit, Ballistics fit like a glove, another finger will crawl through - excellent equipment, though a screwdriver with a short handle for children, apparently it made sense to shove it into the box, but Noctua usually has no handle, just an L-shaped bend, for example - in theory, there should be good thermal paste, there are practically no reviews on it, although someone wrote that it is a couple of degrees better than MX4, given the fact that MX4 has been scolded for the last year, it may not be worth taking another paste that is complete for 1.5 servings somewhere, but you can stretch it into 2 bumps))

Cons

- the fattest minus is that it can not cope with overclocking 10850k, throttling. think before buying if you have a top. 250W honestly barely holds up to 91 degrees, but there is no higher. 260-270 and gone to 100 degrees. there is an option to lower the Vcore, this will save watts and temperature, but it won’t win much, 100-200 MHz max and then it will hang around 99 and most likely periodically throttling. not worth it. - medium cooler non-standard, 20mm. the same cannot be found. although the operating time for a rollback is huge, the fact itself is somewhat sad. theoretically, if you remove the vibration pads, he will climb up against both colds, but it’s better to work a little with 22mm if something happens or suddenly Be Quieter will come down to us and let us buy this non-standard - if you pull it back and forth there will be chipped paint, the appearance will already be with jambs, so be careful