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Dark Rock Pro 3 does look good.. how does it perform?
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Like I said in post #70:
Never heard it at this temperature anyway. Please notice this is low voltage CPU and it's going rapidly hot while goes above 1V and running Turbo - in my case it oscillating between 27°C and 42°C, and that's couple of seconds only and drop. Not playing much but currently running BF3 for about one hour and see just only 33°C. Only full 10min. of OCCT or 15 min. of RealBench stress make 56°C here
It can handle up to 250W TDP, so with just as little 45W it got really easy life
Plus outstanding look without squeezed heatpipes on top and also poor silver colour. Black nickel coat on base, heatpipes and fins, black anodised aluminium top cover is that what I love here
And this is how it looks in my Case - NZXT Noctis 450:
Bear in mind we still can add third fan to it, clips are provided. That could cool down any Overclocked bugger and keep noise very low at the same time
Yes - my aim was getting big block to avoid noisy work any time - no matter what I am doing on PC. I am not being funny but if the fans suddenly stops I probably wouldn't notice thattomekkk1 said:
Never heard it at this temperature anyway. Please notice this is low voltage CPU and it's going rapidly hot while goes above 1V and running Turbo - in my case it oscillating between 27°C and 42°C, and that's couple of seconds only and drop. Not playing much but currently running BF3 for about one hour and see just only 33°C. Only full 10min. of OCCT or 15 min. of RealBench stress make 56°C here
It can handle up to 250W TDP, so with just as little 45W it got really easy life Plus outstanding look without squeezed heatpipes on top and also poor silver colour. Black nickel coat on base, heatpipes and fins, black anodised aluminium top cover is that what I love here
And this is how it looks in my Case - NZXT Noctis 450:
Bear in mind we still can add third fan to it, clips are provided. That could cool down any Overclocked bugger and keep noise very low at the same time
Yes it's about 115x sockets - glad you notice that. Cheers
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Just bought the be quiet! dark rock 3. Will post pics after I get it installed.
Cheers for everyone's help.
Cheers for everyone's help.
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Looking forward to see it in yours
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I've got a dark rock pro 3 sat here for a few weeks now waiting to fit, my main concern is whether it will interfere with the first PCIE socket/GPU.
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No worries:
on previous AM3+ Socket mobo - over 2cm distance to 1st PCIE
on current 1050 Socket mobo - approx. 1cm distance to 1st PCIE
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I'm on Z97
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Which Z97 board?
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That's why I went for the dark rock 3 non pro version. My dark rock is delayed until tomorrow now because of Black Friday orders still being backed up
The dark rock pro 3 is massive. Too big for my liking.
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looking at the pictures I can find online with it fitted to a motherboard I dont think it will interfere with the first socket
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be quiet! dark rock 3 Installed. This cooler looks awesome. Temps under full load are 68c. Glad I went air cooling
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be quiet! dark rock 3 Installed. This cooler looks awesome. Temps under full load are 68c. Glad I went air cooling
Nice one, bro! Looks stunning there
If that 68°C you've made using RealBench or OCCT bear in mind you'll never reach it in your games & programs
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Nice one, bro! Looks stunning there
If that 68°C you've made using RealBench or OCCT bear in mind you'll never reach it in your games & programs
This cooler is a looker.
Yes I used prime95. Gaming should be a lot lower. So far extremely happy with air cooling. Temps are much better then the corsair H105 I was using. Think I'll stay air for the near future. Can't trust AIO any more.
Some piece of mind atleast, Looking good.
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yip one of the reasons I went to Air was piece of mind. plus my Phanteks performs better than my old H80i which helps
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Same here, I didn't have to remove any retention plate, i5 4690k
PCI-E is fine with my Pro and Asus Z97A almost an inch clearance. Wish I could say the same for the memory slots though the first one is completely blocked and I had to take the heatspreaders off the sticks.
be quiet! dark rock 3 Installed. This cooler looks awesome. Temps under full load are 68c. Glad I went air cooling
Same here. I think the Pro I bought is overkill my i5 generates so much less heat than my old i7 920 that would have needed it for sure.
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