be quiet! Dark Rock 5 air cooler, extremely high cooling
be quiet! Dark Rock 5 air cooler, extremely high cooling performance, 6 high-performance heat pipes, Silent Wings 4 120mm PWM fan, high RAM and VRM cooler compatibility, user-friendly mounting, BK035
CONVENIENT HANDLING
Installation is a breeze
Installation is easier than ever with the Dark Rock 5. Thanks to its convenient, preinstalled mounting bridge and a firm yet gentle fixing method, cooler attachment is a breeze. To sweeten the deal, a long-neck screwdriver is included in the scope of delivery.
ICONIC DESIGN
Aesthetics meet functionality
Dark Rock 5 does not compromise on style. A magnetic mesh top cover masks heat pipe ends and the screw hole, providing a sleek, clean design as Dark Rock 5 cools your CPU.
COMPATIBLE WITH LIQUID METAL THERMAL GREASE
Cooling power beyond belief
Thanks to a nickel-plated base, Dark Rock 5 is compatible with liquid metal thermal grease such as DC2 Pro. The properties of liquid metal compound combined with Dark Rock 5 allow high-end CPUs to perform at even higher levels.
| Weight: | 1.03 kg |
| Dimensions: | 7.6 x 13.6 x 16.1 cm; 1.03 kg |
| Model: | BK035 |
| Part: | BK035 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | be quiet! |
| Dimensions: | 7.6 x 13.6 x 16.1 cm; 1.03 kg |
| Quantity: | 1 |
I love this cooler it works great had to spare and brackets because I lost the right ones but there customer service was quick and helpful to show me where to order new ones. Easy to install and as the name suggests dead quite had to keep looking just see if it was still running. I got a 7 700x with a 7900 xtx and with this cooler it looks great and fits well with plenty of room for circulation in the Liam 216 case. No RGB which is what I love about this cooler got enough of that already with out my case lighting up my room or distorting my monitor colours
Almost silent, fits like a glove, keeps my CPU cooled. I use be quiet! products for all my PCs, and I have never had an issue with them. They do their job and they do it quietly.
I am running Ryzen 9 5950 and this cooler keeps the temp down, now I don’t overclock and the tepm is stable. The mounting for this cooler must be done with case on it’s side and as it can be a bit tricky to access the mounting screws. When I play games or do my video editing the cooler is more than enough to keep the processor cool and I have not yet had overheating of the processor. The cooler is quiet and I have to check every now and again to see if it is running 🙂
Over all worth the money and cools very well
Package arrived like it was about to be dropped onto Mars, so decent condition (and ahead of schedule).
The packaging contains everything for both Intel and AMD mountings, although the instructions could have been a little better in design being quite difficult to identify which screw and which way up brackets went (YouTube is your friend in this instance!).
Mounting is a little odd in that you have to screw it in from the back of the motherboard (I have a TT Tower 900 case, so not a problem for me, but for smaller computers, if a replacement for your current fan, you may need to remove the motherboard to perform this action).
In performance, I had taken a reading with the case closed and idle was around 26-30dB, once the new fan was installed, with the case still open the noise level hovered around the 20dB level and is quieter still with the case closed.
With the thermals, on idle, temperature of by (old) 1800X (AMD Ryzen) chip was slightly below 30 degrees (with the stock AMD fan it was slightly above), and when under load, it barely made it to 50 degrees (with the stock fan it was around 55 degrees).
I would totally recommend this product, but would suggest that you check out the BeQuiet site to ensure that the cooler fits your motherboard, as it’s so large and bulky; if you have the RAM close to the CPU socket then it may not make it! – but the BeQuiet site said this one would be perfect).
Very happy with the BeQuiet fans, probably going to replace the 3 case fans now to silence things even further…
Before buying this cooler, reading the reviews put me off in the beginning. The issues pertaining to the tricky installation of Dark Rock coolers were both truth and urban myth. I bit the bullet regardless and picked up a deal on Amazon warehouse. To say I am pleased with the cooler is understatement. I had liquid AIO coolers before, a few of them. Disbelieving air could be as good as water. As testing shows, in a well planned airflow case, a few degrees difference don’t matter and going air was the best thing I did. Just Dark Rock installation was a pain to fit.
The only bad point is the fitting, had I been able to do this with the motherboard in situ within the case, it would have been a godsend. However taking the motherboard out, fitting nuts and bolts with tint spanners felt going backwards rather than forward tech. But as it sits in the case, its Thermal Grizzly paste keeping temps a few degrees lower, I will not need to replace the paste or move the cooler for a couple of years. The upright facing fan fits the build great and pushes air down to cool the motherboard as a bonus. WThe other good plan by Dark Rock, was ito provide mounts for the old 1366 socket, which meant my overclocked 6 core i7, has a couple more years left before its retirement. This cooler allowed it to keep cool actually well over its projected 225 TDP.
So hopefully Dark Rock will improve mounting applications on new products. In the meantime the TF is a great cooler for the money and in more restrictive case builds. Just be prepared to have patience and a degree of time to fit it properly.
So I got this for my 3900x as my case is 4mm to slim for the dark rock 4, firstly let me say this thing is big, it covers 1 ram slot, that’s fine the cleaning is great I can take the stick out and put it in with some wiggle room (corsair vengeance), the mounting is hell, it’s a confusing in places and you need 2 people, I think mines on right and for the month or so it’s been on it seems to be ok but it is super tricky, thermals have been solid, at 100% on all Cores at 4.2 I haven’t broke 85C but my case fans are cheap ones so with better air flow you might get lower temps, I’d only recommend this if you y don’t wanna deal with a AIO and you definitely can’t fit a tall cooler, looking back I’d go with a AIO but I’m not going to swap it out for one if things stay as they are.
Very quiet and efficient once installed on an i9 processor. The mounting is laborious, as widely commented upon, but works well once mastered. As an item, I am glad I purchased this. Along with my Be Quiet case and power supply, my PC is literally inaudible.
The main issue is if you need to deal with BeQuiet customer services. My initial package (factory sealed) was missing the 4 metal clips which hold the fans to the fins. I contacted Amazon, whose customer service levels are always worthy of 5 stars, and said I would rather not waste the resources to return the entire item just for 4 small pieces of metal. Amazon got in touch with Be Quiet directly and even called me with them on the line in order to resolve the issue. I was told by Be Quiet to submit the form on their website for the parts. 4 days after submitting the form, they got back to me and suggested I needed to pay 10 for these parts (the parts they neglected to include, without which the item is useless). I contacted Amazon and they had a new whole item with me in under 24 hours for free, which contained the clips.
It is a premium product, but their idea of liability and customer services leaves a great deal to be desired!
I use this to cool an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x and this cooler stays virtually silent even when I run benchmarking applications putting the processor under full synthetic loads. Temperature under load has hit a 68 degrees maximum for me which is fantastic.
The first time I turned the PC on with this attached I didn’t think the PC was on, I thought I mis-pressed the power button so turned round and the PC is on and to my amazement no noise whatsoever.
It’s a big cooler but fits perfectly in my Corsair 280x RGB case.
The mounting instructions aren’t the best in the world but a bit of common sense will see you through. For AM4 sockets you have to remove the motherboard backplate, screw the new backplate included with the cooler on, mount the brackets to the cooler itself and the screw that to the motherboard. Took about 30 mins once I had figured it out. It even comes with included thermal paste.
The look of it too is so much better than any other cooler out there in my opinion, and has similar results to most AIO coolers without the hassle of radiator mounting.
A must buy.