About a week ago we reviewed BeQuiet!'s Dark Rock Pro 2. Today we're going to check out it's little brother whereas we have to say, that it really isn't small. It still is a high-end cooler, which is capable of removing quite a lot of heat. There really...
We have noticed two key elements when it comes to designing a silent heatsink. The first is surface area and in most cases this will dictate the size of a heatsink and how much heat it can handle. The second is a complement of the first and consists of a...
Today we are looking at the latest Dark Rock 2. While we recently tested the this is very much the big brother of the Dark Rock 2 and has a design similar to that of the Noctua NH-D14 in regards to the dual heatsink design. The new and improved...
be quiet! as the name implies, is a company focused on silence. Whether it be power supplies, case fans, or CPU coolers, this group of German engineers is obsessive about providing the maximum possible performance while maintaining absolutely silent...
The Be Quiet! Dark Rock 2 CPU Air Cooler comes with a super quiet 135mm fan, many aluminum fins, copper baseplate, seven 6mm heatpipes. Also, the overall fit and finish on the heatsink is out if this world and the performance is...
Sometimes performance isn't everything in a cooler, and the Be Quiet! Dark Rock series of CPU coolers capitalises on that fact. From experience of their products they offer a normally spot-on balance between price, performance, aesthetics and noise with...
Our tests proved that the name of the manufacturer is in accordance with the product: the Dark Rock 2 is really quiet. It is actually the most silent high-performance CPU cooler that we tested so far.Although the be quiet! Dark Rock 2 doesn’t have the...
The be quiet! Dark Rock 2 has the look of a heavy duty heatsink from Thermalright, Prolimatech, or Noctua, but unfortunately that's as far as the resemblance goes. Its performance is decidedly poor compared to today's various high-end 140 mm fan CPU...
Mit dem neuen Dark Rock 2 liefert be quiet! einen leistungsfähigen Tower-Kühler zum überschaubaren Preis ab. Darüber hinaus sprechen auch Verarbeitungsqualität und Lautstärke für den Kauf unseres Testmusters. Das sichere Montagesystem und der hochwertige...
be quiet! hat mit dem Dark Rock 2 CPU-Kühler erneut ein sehr gutes Produkt aufgelegt. Vor allem beim Thema Lautstärke ist er mal wieder weit vorne. Dies hat er wohl hauptsächlich seinem guten Lüfter sowie der gelungenen PWM-Regelung zu verdanken. Der...
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