be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 Quiet Cooling CPU Cooler | Immensely High Airflow | 7 high-Performance Copper Heat Pipes | Speed Switch | Thermal Grease | BK036

Running the Dark Rock Pro 5 paired with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. After nearly 10 years on AIOs—cycling through 3–4 units due to pump failures or leaks—I decided to switch back to air cooling, and I’m glad I did. This cooler outperforms my previous 240mm AIO in every way: lower temps, quieter operation, and far less hassle. With a minor undervolt, temps stay under 78°C during stress testing and idle around 38°C, evenly across all cores. Under normal use and gaming sessions, it doesn’t break 60°C. If a fan ever fails, it’s a quick swap—not a full teardown like with an AIO. Build quality is excellent, and it looks great in the case. Installation was smooth, and it fits perfectly on LGA1851. If you want reliable, top-tier air cooling with better thermals and long-term peace of mind, this is the one to get.

The Dark Rock Pro 5 was used for two builds based on the Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 motherboard. One build went in a new Corsair Frame 4000D ATX Mid Tower case, the other in a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 case from 2007. The CPU in both builds is the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, a 120W part for which this 270W cooler has plenty of capacity. A middle fan sits between two radiators, covered by a plate bearing the be quiet! logo that is held in place with magnets. Underneath the cover plate is a Q/P switch that allows the cooler to run in Quiet or Performance mode. The fan wiring allows the two fans to be daisy chained and connected to a single CPU_FAN header that is typically located just above the CPU socket on the motherboard. Hardware is included with the cooler that supports Intel 1851, 1700, 1200, 1150, 1151 and 1155 sockets, and AMD AM4 and AM5 sockets. The directions were clear and installation was very easy. The cooler seems to have enough capacity relative to a 120W CPU that the fans tends to stay at low RPM and are inaudible, and it really looks great on a black motherboard in a black case. The Dark Rock Pro 5 is a high quality, well designed and manufactured CPU cooler that should run for a long time.

This is a beefy CPU cooler coming in at 168mm tall. The installation process is easy and simple, a screwdriver is supplied in the box along with thermal paste. Mounting this on my Gigabyte B850M AORUS ELITE WIFI6E ICE was not an issue at all. The mounting kit is one of the best I have used. Once installed, it quiet and provides great airflow in my A3-case. The Dark Rock Pro 5 will fit into a Lian Li A3 case with no problems as seen in the pictures. Overall, I am very satisfied with the cooling and performace of the CPU cooler. I'm using it on a AMD 9800x3d CPU and it easily keeps it under 62C on average gaming. I don't rely on stress test because they do not represent real word usage. When I am idle my CPU hovers between 29 - 35C. Playing GPU intensive games with my 9070XT dumping some heat out pushes the CPU to around 68C to 72C in long game play sessions.

The moment you open it, out of the box, it's BIG, HEAVY, and you can tell it's made out of quality stuff. LOVE the long screw driver that it came with. In fact, I used the damn screw driver for everything to build my entire computer - thank you for including that! Installation was a breeze (just be careful not to apply too much pressure to the CPU like I did like a newbie, had to figure out why the PC would boot, oops). Connects easily to the motherboard. Thing runs DEAD SILENT even on performance mode. When I play games, I hear my GPU fans revving up but never this CPU cooler. I went for the silent - no RGB - classy setup with Fractal North mid tower case, silent wing case fans x3. I love my setup and the way it turned out! I'll always buy be quiet products from now on.

Cool, quiet, hyper effective. The design is nifty and fits together flawlessly. It's easy to disassemble and clean. My 9800x3d sits in the 60-70 temp range during high intensity gaming. However, there are more factors at work than just the cooler.

This would've easily been 5-stars because the cooler works great! BUT, the instructions were a bit vague and there is BARELY enough lead wire on the fan cables to install it without much more work. This should have been a very straight-forward installation by simply installing the bracket and mounting the fan. I had to remove the video card as well so I could reach the lead wires under the cooler to connect the fans together after attaching them. I don't think an additional 2-3 inches would've increased costs that much. The cooler itself works very well and one of the fans is adjustable to be able to fit over the RAM modules. Again, this idea wasn't really thought out because if I had all four DIMM slots populated, the cooler would fit but I wouldn't be able to put the glass panel back on the case. All-in-all it's a decent air cooler, but needs some refinement on the design and cable lengths. It is extremely quiet even when you have it running at full speed. A great value for the money, but make sure there's plenty of room!

Habe mir den Dark Rock Elite bestellt. Gestern angekommen , Einbau war super easy und für Leute die sowas nie gemacht haben ist sogar eine sehr gute Anleitung mit Bildern dabei. Um Werkzeug brauchte ich mich nicht kümmern da ein passender magnetischer Schraubendreher bei dem Gerät mit beilag. Nach dem Einbau direkt getestet und die Ergebnisse sind richtig überragend ! Meinen i7 13700KF hält der Kühler selbst unter Volllast auf 75-78 Grad ! Vorher war ich immer bei 88-90 grad . Absolut riesiges Teil und das Highlight ist die frei einstellbare RGB-Beleuchtung und der Switchschalter von Silent zu Performance Modus. Verarbeitung ist auch top und läuft sogar leiser mit den zwei Lüftern als mein alter Kühler der nur einen in der selben Größe hatte. Für den Preis also ein Top Produkt 👍

This was simple to install with the included brackets. It replaces a cheaper option that quite simply didnt cool the CPU effectively enough, especially when rendering in After Effects. The build quality is excellent, the performance switch, for me, is a little bit of a gimmick, just put it on performance and leave it. Couple this with quality thermal paste and you will see results comparable to a mid tier AIO. My temps now stay around 50-66 degrees and when rendering (AE uses all cores 100%) the highest temp I have seen is 90 degrees so the CPU no longer throttles when rendering.

es un disipador increible, una pena que tenga que devolverlo porque no cabe en mi gabinete :(

No hace nada de ruido y refrigera bastante bien, eso sí, casi no cabe y mi caja es muy ancha.

Cumple con todas mis espectativas. Mantiene fresco un 14600T sin problemas, dificilmente llega a mas de 65°C.