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CES 2018 we made our way over here to be quiet and if you guys have ever dealt with air coolers or look them up the dark rock Pro Series from be quiet is one of the most popular air coolers that you'll possibly find it's not just because it's all black and it's blacker now than it used to be it's like a very jet black heat pipes are black even but it's not just the color that makes it popular it's it's a massive amount of cooling capability of 250 Watts TDP displaced but if you've also ever kind of tried to install one then you would know that they were not necessarily the most friendly and if you were dealing with a motherboard that had high vrm heat sinks or you're dealing with tall ram then you more than likely ended up with some sort of a conflict and getting the brackets on there was really kind of a pain so that's why they are upgrading this now with the dark rock pro 4 which we've actually got one right here what's made this extremely different is the fact that they have created a pass-through right here just simple design change it allows you to get a screwdriver all the way down to the bracket so you take the middle fan out right here on their twin cooling tower you can easily get to the the screw right here to tighten this down making it much much more simplified making it easier to install more friendly with more setups because we also have more RAM clearance over here now than we used to you can kind of see right here on this unit maybe we can kind of show it right here - we've got a little bit more of a cutout on this side specifically for RAM clearance so tall Ram your Corsairs your G skills that have your nice tall RGB tops on there are no longer going to conflict now I talked about color a second ago and I want to kind of mention this this is not just a black painted heatsink anyone could do that but the problem is when you paint a heatsink you also reduce its efficiency if heat transfer because it's paint acts almost like an insulation at that point so that's why what be quiet is done right here this is actually a ceramic particle coating very similar like what you would see on the Space Shuttle is what they're telling me here but it gives it a much more efficient transfer of heat so the color is not just an aesthetic thing it's actually a very functional aspect to how this cooler works and it's not just on the heatsink itself it's also on the heat pipe so yeah it's kind of it's functional and form you know I'm gonna say this if you were Noctua I think I'd be scared if I were you because aesthetics people care about aesthetics now that's why our GP RGB is still a thing but something else are gonna take a look at here that I'm interested in is you guys Sall video I did about a month ago where I showed off the new ghost s1 case from Loki which obviously uses an SFX power supply but the problem is SFX power supplies usually are very small wattages they're not designed for heavy loads or big gaming machines but with now having mini graphics cards and the efficiency of CPUs and stuff moving forward like 8th gen processor and the efficiency of Rison we have now got an SFX l-series power supply from be quiet that comes in 500 watt including a 600 watt that keeps the same form factor the problem with SFX is sometimes as the wattage gets higher it actually gets a bit longer which kind of negates some of the form factor benefits of going with a small form factor build list something like SFX but unlike in the past where if you had to deal with either an SFX or a full sized ATX power supply you had to choose one of the other but what included well all the SFX out power supplies is this bracket which you mount to the power supply and you can use this in other systems with the amount of output that this has you could use it in multiple system not just a small form factor but more important that is the cables cables on small form-factor are always the most challenging part in a build which is why we've also got a fully modular SFX power supply so DB quiet SFX L definitely worth checking out so you're probably going to see this used in my ghost build which is coming up in the first quarter of 2018 we're just waiting on a few more parts who manufacture that and sent over and the challenge is obviously how much Hardware can you pack into an extremely small form factor unfortunately we've got a 600 watt solution right here that doesn't make us compromise on either modularity or wattage output so guys that's what we're taking a look at here at be quiet here at CES 2018 again a huge thank you to our sponsors EVGA for making this trip possible or you guys go and check them out of EVGA comm and as always we'll see you in the next one