Be quiet! dark rock pro 3 review in Spanish (complete analysis)

Having a good heatsink is essential for users who are demanding with their PC, the stock solutions from Intel and AMD can be used for an unpretentious device, but if we want to truly squeeze the full potential of our processor, we need a much more option. powerful. In this sense, the Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 is postulated as one of the best air coolers on the market with its ability to handle a maximum TDP of 250W in addition to presenting a very careful design and top quality.

First of all we thank Be Quiet! the confidence deposited when transferring the product to us for analysis.

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 technical features

Unboxing and design

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 is presented with a black cardboard box in which we see an image of the heatsink on the front, the box also highlights its ability to handle processors with a TDP of up to 250W so it will be ideal for users who want to overclock.

While the most important specifications in various languages are detailed on the back .

Once we open the box, we find the heatsink very well protected by a piece of foam that is in charge of accommodating it perfectly.

We also see a box that contains all the accessories necessary for its assembly. The bundle includes the following elements:

• Heatsink Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 Backplate Front anchors for Intel and AMD2 metal clips for an additional fan Screws Mounting key Corning TC-512 thermal paste syringe

It is time to look at the Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3, as we can see the model is committed to a fairly conventional tower design that has proven to be the best option and also helps us to improve the air flow inside the PC. All the heatsink has a design that denotes the high quality and the care that the German manufacturer puts in its products.

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 reaches measurements of 150 x 137 x 163 mm and a high weight of 1, 197 grams, it is a very large and heavy heatsink so we must monitor the compatibility with our chassis and it is recommended a high-quality motherboard with a Thick PCB to avoid suffering from the high weight of the heatsink.

It consists of a total of 45 aluminum fins that have the function of increasing the surface of heat exchange, thereby maximizing the cooling capacity of this heatsink, we have already said that it can handle up to 250W of heat. As we can see the tower is divided into two areas so that one of the fans will be placed in the center, a design that we have already seen on occasion in other manufacturers.

This radiator is crossed by seven copper heatpipes with a thickness of 6 mm that will be in charge of absorbing the heat generated by the processor and distributing it throughout the aluminum radiator. Be Quiet! It has placed black caps on the radiator to improve the aesthetics of the heatsink, it is appreciated that all the details in a product of its range are taken care of.

The heatpipes are nickel-plated and are attached to a nickel-plated copper base to improve aesthetics and prevent deterioration . This base has a highly polished surface to ensure that the contact with the processor's IHS is the best possible, thereby maximizing heat transfer.

The bundle includes two SilentWing PWM fans that are the best on the market and reach dimensions of 135 x 135 x 22 mm and 120 x 120 x 25 mm, we can see that one of the fans is slightly smaller than the other to improve the memory compatibility. These two fans offer the ability to rotate at a maximum speed of 1400 RPM and 1700 RPM respectively with a maximum noise of 26.1 dBa and an airflow of 67.8 / 57.32 CFM on both models respectively.

One detail is that one of the fans includes a 4-pin female connector to which we can connect the other fan, in this way we can connect both to a single 4-pin connector on the motherboard. These SilentWing PWMs have hydraulic bearings and their useful life is estimated at 300, 000 hours.

Mounting and installation on LGA 1151 (Intel Coffe Lake)

Installation is tedious and it is highly recommended to follow the manual. Although we are going to install it on socket 1151, our explanation plus photos will surely help you. The first thing we have to do is locate and organize the accessories for our socket.

Next, we will place the backplate in this simple way on the back of our motherboard and insert the screws.

When passing the screw, we must go to the main face of the motherboard and hook the plastic pins. It is not an excessively difficult task, but it takes time, so patience friends?

We screw the screw and nut to the brackets for the Intel socket.

And we fix it first in the heatsink with its four screws?

We remove the protector from the base. Less is left!

We apply the thermal paste on the processor and place the heatsink on the socket.

And now with great care… we tighten the screws at the back. Setting the heatsink firmly on the motherboard.

At last! Is already installed. Believe me, this installation is not easy and if you have come this far, congratulations! The good thing is that it doesn't move a bit.

We really liked that it allows you to install high-profile memory (depending on the height) and that it does not meet the first PCI Express x1 slot. Although if you want to mount a graphics card on enthusiastic boards, for example X299, you will surely have problems mounting SLI or CrossfireX configurations when canceling the first connection.

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i7-8700K
Base plate:	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming K3º
Memory:	64 GB DDR4 3400 MHz Corsair LPX.
Heatsink	Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
SSD	Kingston UV400 480 GB.
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti
Power supply	Corsair RM1000X

To test the real performance of the heatsink we are going to stress with an interesting i7-8700K at stock and overclock speed. Our tests consist of 72 uninterrupted hours of work in stock values ​​and with overclocking in a room at 21ºC.

In this way, we can observe the highest temperature peaks and the average that the heatsink reaches. We must bear in mind that when playing or using other types of software, the temperature will drop dramatically between 7 to 12ºC.

How are we going to measure the processor temperature?

For this test we will use the internal sensors of the processor under the supervision of the HWiNFO64 application in its latest version. We believe that it has positioned itself as the best on the market and even more so as a free version. Let's see the results obtained:

Final words and conclusion about Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3

The Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 is a twin tower heatsink, super quiet 135 & 120mm fans, impeccable design, high dissipation capacity (up to 250W TDP) and excellent compatibility for both Intel and AMD platforms.

In our tests we have been able to verify its performance with an i7-8700K processor with 6 cores and 12 threads. The temperatures obtained: XX ºC at rest and XX ºC at maximum load. Considering that the processor does not have DELID they are very good , and where we would most notice to render this beast would be with processors from the enthusiastic platform of Intel: LGA 2066.

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Its installation is somewhat more tedious than that of other manufacturers but with time and some patience we can do it without any problem. We really liked that it incorporated the brackets to install in the new AMD AM4 sockets. So we can have our AMD Ryzen 7 well refrigerated.

It is currently in online stores for a price of 89 euros. It is certainly not a very attractive price, since there are somewhat cheaper solutions and even compact liquid refrigerations. But, it seems to us one of the best heatsinks that we have tested during 2017.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ DESIGN.	- PRICE CLOSE TO 90 EUROS.
+ QUALITY FANS.
+ IT IS VERY SILENT.
+ INSTALLATION.
+ AND COMPATIBILITY WITH AM4 AND NEW INTEL PLATFORMS.

The Professional Review team awarded him the gold medal:

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3

DESIGN - 90%

COMPONENTS - 90%

REFRIGERATION - 85%

COMPATIBILITY - 90%

PRICE - 80%

87%