Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 HSF

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/10/2014 09:46 AM | source: | 15 comment(s)

BeQuiet! introduces the Dark Rock Pro 3, a large tower heatsink with a copper base, seven copper heatpipes, and two aluminium fin arrays with a total of 90 fins. Airflow is provided by two fans: a 120mm and a 135mm one, both PWM models with fluid bearings and Silent Wings blades. According to the company, these fans generate just 13.2dBA at 50% power and 26.1dBA at 100%.

With 4.8" x 5.2" x 6.4" dimensions, the Dark Rock Pro 3 is fairly massive. At 2.6 lbs, it's also a heavyweight. All that metal provides enough surface area to dissipate up to 250W, though. This beast should be capable of cooling even AMD's 220W FX-9590, which is basically an overclocked Vishera chip with a 5GHz peak Turbo frequency.

The Dark Rock Pro 3 measures 122mm x 132mm x 163mm and weighs a whopping 1179g! Retail availability is expected on January 14 for 79 EUR, which will likely be around $99in the US.

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Rich_Guy
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#4741918 Posted on: 01/12/2014 12:40 AM

Jeeze, 1179g, and here i was thinking my Zalman CNPS12X was heavy

Same here with my Asus Triton 88, but its only 876g

Arend.C
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#4742077 Posted on: 01/12/2014 11:29 AM

Meh, i'm still mooore than happy with my TRUE 120. This one looks ok tho, but that might be annoying to clean.

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#4742310 Posted on: 01/12/2014 06:43 PM

swag

I wish I could throat stomp every idiot that say this.

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#4820654 Posted on: 05/19/2014 10:09 PM

Got the dark rock pro 3 cooling my amd fx 9590 atm in a aerocool x predator avengers full tower, it does very well tbh, idles at 38c and barely push's 48c under full load, and it is silent, can't hear a think when my pc is on other then the dvd drive on boot checking if disc is there

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#4820668 Posted on: 05/19/2014 10:30 PM

You can turn off boot checking in BIOS by taking off your DVD drive from the boot order. It will still work in windows but it wont check for a disk. That way you will get a 100% silent PC then if that is the only noise.

Its just a matter of spamming F8 to boot from your DVD drive if you need to reinstall windows, or run a memtest, etc.

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