be quiet! Dark Rock Pro TR4 250W TDP CPU Cooler | for AMD TR4 Only | Black | BK023

This cooler is absolutely amazing, I am so happy I went with this instead of an all in one watercooler. The packaging is great and it comes with a looooong boi Philips screwdriver to easily access the screws for installation and removal. The one downfall is that mounting the fans works by hooking on tensioned metal wires that hook on to fan first then the coolers fins, I'm not really a FAN of the mounting method. It was a bit difficult to install without scratching the finish. The amount of difficulty you experience in mounting the fans will vary depending on your willingness to scratch/bend new hardware. But most importantly OH MY GOD IT IS SOOOO QUIET!!! I have this thing cooling my 2970wx and while doing all but the most intensive tasks it just chugs along not making a single sound in a heavily vented case, all I can hear coming from my pc is the case fans quietly spinning and the slightest bit of coil whine (your mileage will vary depending on your hardware)! When gaming or benchmarking, this thing still is barely audible and keeps the cpu nice and cool. NOTE: make sure your case will fit with this thing, I have a fairly large atx mid tower case (cooler master-master case h500p) and I was worried it wouldn't fit, there is less than 1/2 inch clearance between the top of the cooler and the glass side panel.

If you have a Alienware Area 51 Tread ripper edition R7 with a TR4 socket AMD 2950x like me you need this cooler. This cooler covers the entire CPU, but you will need about 3 times more thermal paste due to the size of the cpu die!! A word of warning>>>make sure you cover the whole surface of your cpu with thermal paste or you risk cooking your cpu<<<. That warning aside! This air cooler is better and longer lasting than the all in one liquid cooler provided by Alienware due to the fact that it is too small for a large count cpu that produces alot of heat! The original alienware liquid cooler does not work well under heavy loads like rendering 3D. This air cooler has 2 fans and is very quiet and very cool and never throttles. I do 3D rendering in Blender and Daz studio and I have a 16 core cpu being cooled by this cooler and I have no complaints. I did cover the uphere logo with a silver alienware stick on logo but this is merely a cosmetic change and does not affect performance in any way. This is a very necessary upgrade if you have a system like mine and is worth every penny. I have enclosed pictures of the final installation and a temp reading at idle with the Ryzen master software showing 29 deg Cel. The Uphere air Cooler also comes with a very nice long reach Philips head screw driver with magnetic head that will work great with your other computer projects. A word of warning>>> just don't loose it because it is the only way to remove this cooler!<<< Don't Loose this screw driver!!!!

I recently finished building a high end AMD 3960X based system (Asrock Taichi trx40, 256G RAM, Asus 2080Ti, 2 x 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 in a Fractal Design Define 7 case whose fans I replaced with 3 Noctua AF-14 PWM fans). The Dark Pro TR4 (BK023) did an adequate job in cooling the system at idle load and was quiet. At idle the CPU temperature ranges from 45 - 55 C. The Dark Pro cooler however cannot keep up if I stress the system. When running Prime95 the temperature crossed 95 (in spite of all fans spinning at 100% ) and the CPU started to throttle. Also I had great difficulty in attaching the middle fan on the cooler and after couple of hours I almost gave up. I was going to blame the Dark Pro for this but my wife managed to get this done in a few minutes so perhaps it is me!

This thing is so BIG, I actually couldn't fit in the RAM that I bought because it was too tall. Then was told by my builder-pro that if I put in the 64Gb RAM I wanted I would have to completely REMOVE the CPU cooler to get in any more, so I ponied up the dough for the full 128Gb that I knew I eventually wanted and put it in now so I wouldn't have to go through installing this behemoth again. However, it really works well. Keeps my Threadripper 3960X 24core CPU nice and cool and make almost NO NOISE at all. Have to recommend it, but expect to do some cussing when you install it.

I have a threadripper 3970x, this keeps it cool. I'm not over clocked, but with this and my assortment of other fans, my ripper dosnt get above 60°C. That is going 80-90% for a few hours. Normal operations are in the mid 30°C

I got this cooler for a system I built with a 1950x Threadripper. I was originally using an AIO, but was having issues keeping the CPU below max temps when under load. Also it was extremely loud due to the fans having to stay at max RPMs to keep the temps down. Enter the Dark Rock Pro. This thing keeps the CPU well below max temps at all kinds of utilization, even with a slight overclock. I never have to worry about heat. But even more impressive than that is the noise (or the lack of it). I can never hear this thing going even when it's at full speed. This fan single-handedly changed my mind about air coolers. If silence is what you're going for in your build look no further.

It is recommended to mount this with the motherboard out of your system. My system was already built, and I was replacing a current water cooler from Liqtech. The install was simple and easy to do. It was a little hard with the motherboard being in the case but was still simple to complete. I can see this being a breeze with motherboard out of the case. I would also highly recommend that you have RAM installed beforehand and make sure it clears before fighting everything down. As for cooling and CPU ideal and load temps: What a difference. I was running my TR4 Ryzen 1950x under 100% load previously around 68C. It now runs at a cool 43C under load. Idle with this cooler is around 36C. This thing is fantastic! I did use a higher grade thermal paste, so your results may differ. I am incredibly pleased with this and have been shocked by the results. The system overall is faster and more stable due to CPU running cooler.

Great air cooler - running on an Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme (from Amazon) - 3960x. Completely inaudible, even running Prime 95 torture test FFT. Temps never exceeded 78 degrees. Great looks - all black. Clears memory modules with room to spare. I was considering an AIO water cooling setup but geez, why bother.