
- Works great for low price

Its a good company not some knock off Fly by night Cant beat it for the price and performance. Way better than any OME by far! RGB lighting Keeps CPU nice and cool!

ARGB Fans Incredible price to performance Easy to install Good aesthetics

Easy to install

Great, it has a 270 watt tdp and it looks cool

+ Install was very easy on AM5 Platform + Kept the 7800X3D at factory settings 77c on a 1.5HR Prime95 Torture Test + Kept the 7800X3D at factory settings 57c on a 20 Pass 3DMark Steel Nomad stress test + Top of the cooler is magnetic, which is a nice touch.

- quiet - color - cooling - super secure mount

I enjoyed how easy it was to install

Be Quiet Dark Rock 5 PRO is the BEST air cooling solution for INTEL socket 1700 and AMDs as well!!!!! IT is huge, I broke down 5 computers trying to find a case it fit in! Some of which I am parting out, and others that need to be re-assembled! I had two cases that it would fit in, and one has an 8inch fan in the side, that I didn't want to take out to make room for this huge heatsink, so that left me with an NZXT case which only fit in because the fan was lower than the heatsink! The Dark Rock 5 has a TDP of 210, which I returned for the Dark Rock 5 PRO with a TDP of 270. I am running a i9-14900k, & a i7-14700k, they both idle around 29c. Under stress test mid 50s to mid 60s. One test it "popped up" to 71-73c for very brief seconds! I get NO THROTTLING from high temp or lack of power! Currently running i9 @ 5ghz ALL CORE! The i7 4.8ghz ALL CORE, but pretty sure I can take it up to 5ghz & stay at the same temps, with a little tweaking of the AC/DC Load-Line! GERMAN ENGINEERING what more needs to be said! Most people are saying you HAVE to use a water cooler on these hot i7s & i9s, but these Dark Rocks ROCK!!!! I did use liquid metal. Those that say you have to worry about RAM clearance, I have no clue! I am running 4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance, and I have the fan as low as it will goo, and I can still fit a piece of cardboard from a notebook between the fan & RAM sticks. Keep in mind the fan is designed where it can be raised a bit. SO put the RAM clearance out of your mind! OH, and the clip on fan are no trouble at all! AND the center fan comes out easy, don't know why some of the folks make comment about that. I seated & unseated it quite a few times! For me the "CPU fan header" was the pain in my?

Easy to install Quiet Looks great

Everything included to mount this TOWER cpu cooler in the system.

Keeping my CPU at a stable temp

Purchased to improve CPU cooling and potentially correct an operating fault (frozen tray clock, halting computer processing) potentially caused by inadequate cooling from OEM AMD Ryzen CPU cooler. Installation resulted in 5 deg C temperature drop of CPU operating temperature, thus likely extending life of CPU (but unfortunately did not correct periodic frozen tray clock). Installer should be aware that on MSI Tomahawk board, minor interference must be removed from the cooler fins if an active cooler is installed on the M.2 NVME SSD


-Price -Easy to install (AMD 4/5) -Nearly as good as Noctua (1-2 degrees less) -Quiet

- Very powerful cooling air flow; - 2nd fan moves above RAM modules; - Stays almost silent under average load; - Easy to install; - Very nice looking.

I had read comments that the fan came damaged - mine was in perfect condition. It arrived early even though it came from overseas. Super quiet too :) Took me some time to find a fan to fit my motherboard as I'm not very techy, so quite happy i have my pc back in working order :D


My Ryzen 5800XT runs at 32c at idle and never hits 60c while gaming. Easy to install.

Quiet - big reduction in volume from my previous (water) cooler Effective