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

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: 5

May 03, 2023

A wonderful product, its nice to use.

I took it to replace the old zalman perfoma cooler, which served me faithfully for almost 7 years (now the fan from it on the case blowing on the front panel should still serve), but after upgrading the PC, I bought myself a 9900k for work and gaming tasks, the question arose about cooling. I won’t always have a budget for replacing components, so I’m afraid to look in the direction of dropsy, but I don’t have the opportunity to spend money on custom orders, because it’s expensive and I don’t see the point. Because this cooler is no worse than 2 sectional dropsies, and somewhere it’s better, and I’m more confident that being living in 2k19 when dropsies flow to this day and cost impressively, I think that buying this CBO is an excellent purchase, I honestly did not regret it. At first there were still concerns about the color of the cooler and black, because it attracts heat, but this turned out to be just a theory. In practice, everything is much better as it turned out. Of course, it was possible for him to make magnetic bearings, increase the speed to 2.5k, but then I think the price tag for such a unit would almost double, and even the fact that the speed was modest at first glance, I judged before, so if the fan has a small number of revolutions, it means and it cools so-so, in practice, everything is designed for efficiency + durability. In general, for 9900k the air is top and for 8700k its younger brother dark rock 4 will do, it is several degrees worse of course, but the price tag for it is almost 1.5k lower if I'm not mistaken

Pros

Quiet in operation even at full speed is not audible, not so heavy and huge personally as for me. The mother MSI MEG Z390 ice with this cooler feels tolerable, does not bend (maybe someone sags, I judge from my practice) cools 9900k in manual overclocking on all cores 4900 Hz at a voltage of 1.26v, I applied my old old theomopaste to the processor MX2 (the MX 4 may well be a little better, but mine is enough for me). At idle 35-40 degrees in load after a 60-minute Aida64 test, it warmed up to a maximum of 85-88 degrees, at room temperature 26 degrees, with a 4-hour render in Sony Vegas, the situation is similar to that in Aida. 58-60 degrees. As for me, in the combination of design, noise level, work efficiency, you can’t find a better air cooler, holding it in your hands you feel reliability and the effect of being sold a real fit. Yes, I forgot to say, I put it in my old Zalman Z9 plus u3 case with a declared cooler height of 160mm with a margin of 4-5mm approximately (the nuance was in the side window where acrylic is installed on the inside, the 5mm pin roughly touched the cooler when closing, I cut it off with wire cutters so as not got in the way and closed easily like a native with a small margin of height). My main fear before buying was that it might not fit into the case, but in practice the devil is not as terrible as he is painted. Everything is intuitive with the mounting system, but if you haven’t practiced PC assembly much, I recommend watching the official assembly video from be quiet, everything is simple and clear without water. I was also pleased with the compatibility with my operational Gskill tradiend z margin of 2-3 mm, but the same noktua d 15 has worse compatibility and in order to insert it you have to raise the valve and due to this the height of the cooler will increase, which is not good. Cooler top, quiet, powerful, reliable, strong, the clamp also does not wag normally.

Cons

If you paint the shortcomings, then for me there are none as such. But if you are a fan of RGB, then it may not fit into your design. Well, the paint is still, when you get tired of the valve, the steel mount can scratch the radiator and tear off a bit of paint (imperceptibly in everyday life in general, by the way)