Dark Rock Pro 4 Ram Compatibility

It's likely most will assume that an AIO liquid cooler is the definitive selection when looking to build a quiet loftier-performance arrangement, with the only infinite for improvement being a full custom loop. This inherently brings a number of issues including higher costs, and an increased number of points of potential failure.

For those looking for simplicity an air libation is yet a good choice, and be quiet! accept become well known as a manufacturer of loftier-quality tiptop performing air coolers. The new Night Rock Pro 4 states cooling performance of 250W TDP but an equally high-end price signal of £79.99. Does the functioning live upwardly to the price?

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Specification:

Model: Night Rock Pro 4
Oestrus Sink Material: Aluminum
Included Fans : 1x Silent Wings 3 120mmPWM, 1x Silent Wings 135mmPWM
Fan Dimensions: 120 x 120 x 25mm, 135 x 135 x 22mm
Fan Speed: 1,500 , ane,200 RPM @100% PWM
Fan Racket Level: 24.3 dBa @100%
Fan Connector: 4-Pin (PWM)
Warranty: 3 years
Intel socket compatibility: Intel LGA 2066, 2011-v3, 2011, 1151, 1150, 1155, 1156, 1366
AMD socket compatibility: AMD AM4, AM3+, AM3, AM2+, AM2, FM2+, FM2, FM1
Heat Sink Weight: 1.3kg
Heat Sink Dimensions (LxWxH) : 145.vii ten 136 x 162.8 mm

The be quiet! Night Rock Pro iv's packaging shows a articulate movie of the cooler on the front, whilst also displaying the cooling potential of 250W TDP. The Dark Rock Pro 4 comes included with two premium Silent Wings fans which likely add to the advertised cooling, and silent performance. The rear of the box shows some accurate dimensions to help ensure the cooler will fit in your system, as well as a breakdown of the cooler.

The accessories box is well put together, and upon opening, you are greeted with a number of educational activity separate instruction manuals covering most popular languages.

Aslope the numerous instruction manuals, you also receive a host of mounting brackets and pieces for all current CPU sockets, too as some older ones. A 4pin PWM fan splitter is as well included to allow both fans to exist attached to your motherboards CPU fan header, too as 2 sets of fan mounting wire brackets.

The smaller 120mm fan comes pre-installed, however as the 135mm fan needs to be removed for installation this is included separately packaged. It'southward nice to see a spare gear up of brackets for installing yet some other fan at the rear of the libation if required.

A large bequiet! screwdriver is also included likewise as thermal compone for ease of installation.

The be quiet! Nighttime Stone Pro 4 follows the aforementioned aesthetic equally other be tranquillity coolers and shows no signs of aluminium or copper thank you to an all black ceramic particle coating. These ceramic particles should help with heat transfer rather than a blackness pigment blanket acting as insulation. The only exception to the all black wait is a small silvery be placidity! logo on the pinnacle of the cooler.

The libation is pretty weighty at one.3kg, and overnice and solid. At that place is no flex to the cooler and nice additions like safe vibration dampening strips are provided for both fans on each side of the cooler.

Installation does require a number of steps and from the outset does announced a little tricky. The included instruction manuals do a really good chore of walking y'all through the process, only it is certainly worth post-obit the process closely, to ensure no mistakes are made.

Y'all start with the backplate and by passing iv screws through the correct socket holes. four rubber o rings are included to concord these screws in place. The backplate tin then be passed through the rear of your motherboard.

With the backplate fitted you then screw on the four standoff nuts. One consequence I encountered at this stage is that the nuts are a piffling tight to thread and spiral on and as in that location are no clips or retention brackets for the long screws that laissez passer through your motherboard they had a tendency to move abroad from the back plate leaving me spinning the nut and screw together.

With the back plate secured you just need to place the pinnacle mounting subclass over the CPU block and line information technology up with the protruding backplate screws. With the CPU block in place, the 4 peak mounting nuts tin can and so be screwed on to firmly concur the block in place.

Four standoff spacer nuts need to exist screwed in identify on the peak of your motherboard, and so two mounting brackets can be fitted atop these standoffs and screwed into identify.

There are 2 small caps which need to exist unscrewed from the top of the cooler, to allow the included screwdriver to pass through the heart of the libation. The thermal compound can and then be applied to the CPU die, and the included mounting bridge passed through the centre of the cooler, overtop the coolers CPU block.

You can employ the included long screwdriver to pass straight through the cooler and reach the screws used to mount the bridge to the mounting brackets.

With the cooler firmly mounted you can mount the primal fan using the included fan clips and reattach the top caps. Both fans can be fastened to the splitter and connected to your CPU fan header.

Overall non a super tricky process, and around xv minutes of piece of work for me. It is a piffling fiddly but information technology's nice to come across that exist quiet! have improved the installation process by simply calculation a long screwdriver to the kit for ease of access.

It'due south worth noting with the cooler installed that RAM clearance is a little limited. The front 120mm fan extended over 3 of the 4 available RAM slots on our test lath, and with the front mounted at the very top of the cooler, there is but effectually 42mm of clearance for memory modules, only really suitable for low profile RAM.

To exam all CPU coolers, nosotros devised an easily repeatable test with no variables other than the coolers themselves. This ensures that figures from every cooler we test are comparable with each other.

Test rig

At KitGuru we have recently updated our testing setup, and now test temperatures on the Z170 platform. For the CPU we are testing with the Intel Core i7-7700K installed in aASUS Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard. For RAM nosotros have a unmarried 8GB stick of Geil EVO Ten RGB for some added bling running at 3200MHz, and storage is handled past a 120GB SanDisk SSD Plus. Powering our bench is a Seasonic Prime number Platinum 650W PSU.

The test procedure

For testing, we run a number of tests including 4 separate temperature readings per libation. We starting time measure the idle temperature of the i7-7700K locked in at 4.0GHz earlier measuring its temperature under load at the same frequency.

For a representation of overclocks, we run the i7- 7700K at 4.5GHz with a i.275 Vcore applied both at idle and load. The temperatures we present are temperature deltas, where the ambient temperature of the testing environs is deducted from the temperature taken from the CPU for both idle and load. We are aware that a iv.5GHz overclock with a 1.275 Vcore applied is not representative of the all-time setting possible for the i7-7700k, but this does allow united states of america to simulate operation of coolers whether you lot are using a less powerful CPU such every bit an i3 or i5 processor, or a more powerful hotter CPU similar our overclocked i7-7700k.

An idle reading comes from leaving Windows on the desktop for xv minutes. A load reading comes from running Prime95'due south (version 26.6) Small FFTs test for xv minutes – enough time for temperatures to plateau. We use HWInfo64 v5.82 to measure out temperatures.

Noise output

We mensurate noise levels with our sound meter positioned 1 foot abroad from the test bench. The peak noise level is presented. We take measured the noise floor (i.e. ambient racket levels of the room) to exist 34 dBa, and when tested at stock clocks, the vast majority of coolers exercise not emit noise levels above this effigy. Thus, we nowadays one nautical chart with racket levels taken during our overclocked CPU test run.

Temperatures

All temperature charts are sorted with lowest load temperatures at the summit.

With our 7700K at 4GHz performance looks pretty good, at total load its the all-time-performing air cooler we have tested but it does sit down behind the dual fan liquid coolers, this being said only by about 4 degrees compared to the Cryorig A80.

Its idle performance is stronger taking silver medal just behind the Arctic Liquid Freezer 240.

When overclocked, performance by comparison really makes the Night Rock Pro 4 standout sitting in 3^rd identify below both the Cryorig A80 and Arctic Liquid Freezer 240.

What's even more impressive is that whilst managing this extra heat the Dark Rock Pro 4 is the quietest cooler tested. It'south closely followed by the MA410M but considering how much more efficient information technology is at keeping your CPU cool its a clear winner if you lot are not especially fussed about RGB lighting and LEDs.

Overall the exist quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4's cooling performance is solid, whilst also being the quietest cooler tested and when BeQuiet state that Night Rock Pro four is "fantabulous for overclocked systems and demanding workstations", they aren't lying.

It's clearly a great choice for quieter functioning and impressively does a really good job of treatment temperatures even when overclocking.

The installation process is a footling fiddly, merely this is greatly improved with the improver of the screwdriver, clear instructions and well-labelled mounting hardware.

For those looking at coolers for quieter functioning with college TDP CPUs such every bit workstations or for heavy overclocking it is clearly a actually practiced option.

It's non suited to the upkeep-oriented builder at £79.99, but it'southward besides unlikely you would be pairing it with a Pentium. Aesthetically it looks really good with an all-black paint scheme and all of the mounting hardware receiving the same black treatment is likewise a big plus.

The Dark Rock Pro ivis currently available fromOverclockers UKfor £73.99 inc. VATHERE.

Pros

Great cooling performance when overclocking.
Low audible noise even when overclocking and at total load.
Clean all-blackness aesthetic, perfectly suited to professional applications.

Cons

Installation is still a trivial fiddly.
Price at the dearer cease for air coolers.

KitGuru says: Although it costs £79.99 the Night Rock Pro iv is a powerful libation, easily able to match performance to match many AIO 240mm liquid coolers. The core benefit is manifestly fewer points of potential failure, and more piece of mind during prolonged operation. Overall this is a actually good cooler if y'all are looking to build a more than subdued aesthetic high-functioning system.