Dark Rock Pro 4 vs Noctua NH-D15

Tightening the bolts a bit less on the cpu, untill you hit the pressure is enough. Otherwise it will push the thermal paste all over, and thin it out too much where is more physical contact with the cooler, but no thermal paste to speak of now. I would stay away from this cooler because of the fans first of all, and also, you cannot switch the fans to something else. It uses mounting mechanism that is specific to BeQuiet cooler

Same here after my Corsair H100i started failing at one year. Got a Noctua NH-D15 and not only is it outperforming the Corsair, it is much quieter.

Thermal performance - Honestly I am not sure I should bother reviewing this as in my case - The processor I have seems geared to melt its own tdie if you really push it. Ryzen 7 5800x Idle ~30c with this. Normal load ~40-60c Heavy load ~60-85c MAX Load ~85c Prime95 max 85-91c As far as I can tell this works exactly as intended. This being said the Ryzen 7 5800x is a heat monster at actual full bore

SO, starting later today I'm going to try out the infamously glitched game Kingdom Come: Deliverfance to feel for the heat difference, and I do believe Fallout 4 and GTA5 are in order as well. If after all that it has becoming apparent that your product is great at it's job I'll consider it $90 well spent, a nice thumbing of the nose to the liquid cooler-obsessed, and I'll also up your score from 4 to 5. Well, look at what I did again.

Or if you plan to overclock, I suggest going with the insanely overkill Dark Rock **Pro** 4. (If it fits). 2. I would skip the 250 GB SSD (unless it’s really needed) and just get the 2TB SSD

5Ghz i7-3770K Ivy Bridge O.C. to 4.3Ghz NH-D15 6 heatpipe with Dual NF-A15 140mm fans Custom 200mm Gratuitous Intake Fan ASRock Extreme4 Mobo w/ 16 GiB G

Cooler does an excellent job of keeping my 5900x at reasonable temperatures both at idle and under full load. Aesthetically it looks very nice in my opinion. Compatibility seems to be a strong point, even with my fairly high profile trident z RAM it fit very well without any issues. Also, the included screwdriver has a nice strong magnet that makes it easy to not drop the screws in most scenarios

Noctua NH-D15 works awesome on this CPU. No need for AIO - I had a 8700k - NH-D15, and upgraded to the 12900k - NH-D15.. I probably wont do an AIO again

This thing is a BEAST. I was running cinebench to check how it was handling heat, and with my 5600x OC'ed to 4.7ghz my cpu temps were holding rock solid with a full load at around 61-62C. This thing performs better than I could have hoped

So my first test to see how it would perform was with Autodesk 3DS Max. I fired up one of my render scenes. Previously running a HD render of a simulated model would make the H60 scream. I fired off my first render and watched the temps and kept an ear out for increase in sound and cooler load to the fans

Ram clearance and price controlled my purchase. For that, the Dark Rock Pro is amazing. I have mine on a Ryzen 5800x, 35c average temps. Honestly, for what I paid, I’m impressed but AMD has lower power draw vs Intel

I am not happy about buying an additional fan at $32 before tax and shipping. I think I should get a rebate for the $32 extra.