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welcome to my unboxing you first look at the be quiet I'm sorry dark rock - no compromise silence and performance up to 180 watt TDP s-- will be up pretty much everything CPU cooler LGA 2011 ready is the silent wings fans which is like excellent very quiet operation at 20 1.2 decibels Max 135 millimeters silent wings PWM fan highly effective clean completely dark nickel-plated single tower layout that actually is pretty appealing to people like me who love that compatible with Intel and AMD alright areas of applications safe cooling of high performance peace even extreme overclocking scenarios and it seriously quiet PC systems with the highest standards of performance reliability highly effective cooling very quiet operations Nexus silent wings completely dark nipple play to this table backplate ensures vibration secure attachment even when the computer is being transmitted transmitted transported brushed aluminum cover protects the cooling fins design and quality control in Germany okay the core minutes of our customer is a focus of everything that we do tot cover 12 steel heat pipe caps height adjustable um height adjustable fan cool anti vibration rubber ring cooling fins with wave design six high performance heat pipes alright and it should be noted that it is a valid thing to say high performance heat pipes because not all heat pipes aren't you old my goodness that actually looks really good dad that looks just baller I'm I'm sort of sold already and I actually haven't seen the cooling yet this looks like a reasonably smart mounting system so it looks like they've got the kind where the things cruise into the thing and then that screws into the other thing similar to what we've seen in the past although there are a lot of pieces which sort of gives me pause sometimes mounting systems with lots of pieces can be a little bit challenging to put together let's have a look at what their instructions are like though okay so they're labeling everything pretty clearly which is nice to see so basically hmm here we go yeah so that's LGA 2011 is what we're using this for and that should be really easy so you basically put this thing into the the backplate that's already on the socket and then the cooler screws into that with these that these things here or with something else that's also in the package I suppose and then this is going to be your AMD as well as older Intel sockets or lesser intel socket such as 2011 55 11 56 okay they've got nice little exploded diagrams of everything so it Shh it'd be pretty straightforward let's go ahead and check out the heatsink itself this looks like a great backplate though look how thick this thing is like it actually has some weight to it Wow look how thick that is here slight hold this heavy right have ESD felt yeah there you go guys and it's like solid it's like a it's like solid piece of metal like there's no flex to it whatsoever and it has the the anti conductive coating is already on it I've seen ones in the past where you have to like put it on yourself I'm just like that seems like a safety hazard if someone's not going to put it on someone's gonna short out their expensive board which is gonna destroy someone's CPU although some ones are probably like the same person just saying it like it's not like one person is going to like short out their board and someone else's CPU somewhere is gonna die that's not really how it works all right so that it's not 120mm fan cuz that doesn't look like a 120 mil that looks like a 140 oh yeah I was probably using the hold on Slick's gave me a hard time about something so yeah it's a 135 millimeter fan and this is a bit of a unique design because this isn't like the regular case fan that we unboxed before because it's using a completely different mounting system just for their CPU heatsink fan it's got a rubber ring all around the outside here so that means without any cheesy like little rubber strips that you have to sort of like stick to the heatsink fans and then they fall off and then you catch to them up I've had this happen the fan will always have the rubber layer on it which will keep vibration from being transmitted to the tower heatsink itself I'd say about like an a - sort of dark nickel plating I can see a couple small blemishes but you'd never see them if you weren't picky like me and the fact that they've got this beautiful beautiful brushed aluminum top piece that looks outstanding I mean it sort of makes up for it actually because you'll never see the you'll never see the fins themselves anyway have also got are these really metal oh my goodness metal caps on the tops of the heat pipes so that you don't have to see the ugly because you know how heat pipes have one clean end and then they have one like clamped shut end so that the fluid is sealed inside so you don't have to see which end is the ugly end and which end is not the ugly and they've just got capsule and looks outstanding mounting mechanism is this is actually one of my personal favorites the stretch it over and put it wherever you want an opening system so that's what they mean by height adjustable I suppose because you could actually put it up higher if you had like a motherboard component that's interfering with the fan or you could put it down lower if you wanted additional airflow over the over the vrm of your motherboard for example then you just kind of Lodge that in there something you can get it in there we go and just like that or does it yes it does aha locked into place same thing on the other side yes let's do the obligatory finger shot so very shiny but you can see some of the machining marks in the base it should be noted guys I mirror finish is not necessary for good contact of the CPU in fact as you may or may not have noticed your CPU is not mirror finish on the bottom so it's not like you were getting like perfect mirror to mirror contact anyway but that doesn't mean it's not flat though based on a quick look it has a bit of a convex shape to it which assuming you're mounting with any kind of adequate pressure can actually be an advantage because metal does have some plexins and give to it so if you're making the best contact with the middle and then putting a lot of pressure it'll actually spread the contact patch a little bit you'll get the best cooling that way because the CPU dye itself under the heat spreader is only about yay big anyhow so something to note very shiny heat pipes a little attention to detail stuff see short see short connector right why isn't everybody doing this because the CPU power pen header is never further away from like you know the CPU then like here you know this kind of radius so it makes a lot of sense to do that and if it's a little bit closer it looks a lot cleaner if you know you give it a little little loop like that and then just plug it in really really close makes everything look really clean if you have a longer connector on the fan what it ends up looking like is kind of cheesy I don't know if I have yeah I do have another one so this for example is a CPU fan intended to be installed on a CPU so you comes like a bracket to attach it to the cooler so if you pull that trick on this one it still ends up looking kind of stupid cuz it's huge whereas if you have a nice short short cable then it can look really really clean so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing the first look at the view quiet dark drop 2 don't forget to subscribe - 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