be quiet! Dark Rock TF

[crazyeyesreaper]

Top-flow cooler designs tend to come across as a little stale these days, but be quiet! must have missed the memo with the Dark Rock TF. Rather than boring and bland, this new sleek, dark nickel-plated offering also looks aggressive. Offering ultra-low noise levels and a surprising level of performance, it might just be what you are looking for.

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[Ferrum Master]

Very silent. Good job mate.

EDIT.

Funny thought. One time bench for VRM temps using this style of cooler versus the tower.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Didnt Scythe & thermaltake do something similar to this before?

 

[Joss]

Silent and good looking;
but clearance is too much of an issue and that includes the first PCI slot, I don't call that clearance.

Thanks for the review.

 

[Darksword]

Interesting cooler. If they fix the clearance issues, and drop the price by $20.00 it'd be on point.

 

[techy1]

Funny thought. One time bench for VRM temps using this style of cooler versus the tower.[/QUOTE]

I always wondered about that - please someone do that (and while you at it - reverse the fan/-s for another run)

 

[The Quim Reaper]

How could they get something as basic as clearances on the memory slot and PCi slot so wrong?

Do these people even test their products before releasing them to market.

 

[trog100]

i have one and clearance can be improved by turning the cooler round.. i also altered how it mounts.. i fitted bolts that go out of the back and take nuts.. this make installation easy..

they also work very well when matched up with case side fans blowing room temp air directly onto them.. clearance for case side fans was why i chose the cooler.. the fans are needed to cool the graphics cards but also help the cpu cooler..

a normal side flow cpu cooler runs in a pocket of hot air created by the graphics cards.. my case dosnt have room for side fans and a large side flow cooler.. the top flow cooler does..

trog

 

[pat-roner]

i have one and clearance can be improved by turning the cooler round.. i also altered how it mounts.. i fitted bolts that go out of the back and take nuts.. this make installation easy..

they also work very well when matched up with case side fans blowing room temp air directly onto them.. clearance for case side fans was why i chose the cooler.. the fans are needed to cool the graphics cards but also help the cpu cooler..

a normal side flow cpu cooler runs in a pocket of hot air created by the graphics cards.. my case dosnt have room for side fans and a large side flow cooler.. the top flow cooler does..

trog

Palit jetstream and Be Quiet cpu cooler.

I have a feeling that you hate noise at much as me

 

[Joss]

Palit jetstream and Be Quiet cpu cooler.

Don't forget the EVGA supernova, very quiet as well.
All that yummy hardware deserves a better case.

 

[trog100]

my PC was never planned.. it started off as a pre built half decent gaming box bought off ebay just over a year ago.. 4790k with a single 970 gpu and 16 gigs of ram.. it then got added to the only original parts left being the motherboard and the case.. he he

i did think about a better case and looked at a fair few but never got around buying one.. as its set up that one works fine and isnt too large or noisy.. its summer here now and the cpu games at less than 55C with the Darkrock TF cooler.. Wprime takes it to 62 C.. ambient is around 25 C at the moment.. at idle (browsing) its about 2 C over ambient.. currently reading 27 C..

trog

 

[Stefan Payne]

nice review, but quite useless because of the bad heat transfer from the CPU die to the Heatspreader...

An LGA2011 rig or an AMD AM3+ rig would be better for Cooler testing due to soldered heatspreader...

 

[pat-roner]

nice review, but quite useless because of the bad heat transfer from the CPU die to the Heatspreader...

An LGA2011 rig or an AMD AM3+ rig would be better for Cooler testing due to soldered heatspreader...

How do you figure it's useless? All the coolers have been used on the same CPU. The point of the review is not to see how well it cools a a 6700k, but to see how it compares to other coolers.

 

[Stefan Payne]

How do you figure it's useless?

Because the thermal transfer between the Heat Spreader and the Die limits the performance of the cooler. Have you seen how damn close those things are?! And that a Dark Rock TF shall be as good as a Noctua D15?! Just 1K difference between those two?!

No, the heatcompound between DIE and Heatspreader is the limiting factor, that makes this values useless.
Something like this is better than those shitty Intel LGA115x things for cooler testing...

All the coolers have been used on the same CPU. The point of the review is not to see how well it cools a a 6700k, but to see how it compares to other coolers.

That much understand.

But what worth is a test, when you can't test it due to bad equipment?!

Take a look at those links:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-skylake-de-lidded.html
Before: (Stock) 75°C under load, after delidding and putting liquid metal pase between die and IHS: 58°C

Here an Article from Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9505/skylake-cpu-package-analysis

That doesn't make the normal LGA115x CPUs bad, it just makes them totally useless to use for heatsink testing...