The BeQuiet Dark Rock 6 Brings The Same Semi-Passive Cooling PSUs Have To Your CPU

A Smaller Version Of The Dark Rock Pro 6

Overclocking is still fun but there are a new crowd of enthusiasts more interested in under-volting, quiet operation and extending the potential lifetime of their hardware.   The Dark Rock 6 Pro is for the former but the BeQuiet! Dark Rock 6 will be more popular with the latter.  It’s slightly smaller, measuring 102.4 x 139 x 162 mm and weighing almost exactly 1kg, with a single 135 mm Silent Wings PWM fan.  That fan can be set to not even fire up until your CPU hits temperatures requiring the fan to spin at 40% of it’s top 2000 RPM limit.  That could mean truly silent operation when your system isn’t under load.

When you do need the Dark Rock 6 to cool a toasty CPU Guru3D’s testing shows it performs better with AMD systems than Intel but either way the cooler will always produce less than 40dBA sound pressure.  It will struggle with a heavily overclocked CPU, but that’s not what the Dark Rock 6 is for.  

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