Starting to regret buying a dark rock Pro 3

[HeyYouOK?]

The cooler itself kicks alot of ass...

 

but installing this thing was an absolute nightmare. had to remove the plastic gigabyte shielding off the z170 gaming 7 boards and the metal thingy above the processor just to have headway to tighten the bolts, all in all a process that too about an hour and a half to complete...

 

I made the assumption that since the dark rock 3 wasnt so hard to install this wouldnt be either, how wrong i was.

 

i dread having to removing this thing in the even of reapplying thermal compound in the future. i think ill go for an AIO cooler in the future.

 

[Suika]

Be Quiet! just hates mainstream boards it seems, installing my Dark Rock 3 on my old Z87 board was a pain, but reinstalling it on my X99 board was pretty simple except that it blocks a DIMM slot.

[CeremonialSnips]

Well did you ask on here if it was compatible or check their compatibility charts?.... I mean, if you didn't do your homework how can you complain... just sayin not trying to be a dick.

[WereCat]

Yea, mounting is terrible. The one on my Dark Rock Pro 2 is better though... I don't like to remove my cooler because it still takes me over half an hour to mount it back.

[HeyYouOK?]

yea the drp3 blocks 2 of mines, granted i dont see myself needing it atm, but in the off chance that i do...its not gonna be fun at all to take it off.

[NumLock21]

Get a CM212 Evo next time.

[HeyYouOK?]

15 hours ago, CeremonialSnips said:

Well did you ask on here if it was compatible or check their compatibility charts?.... I mean, if you didn't do your homework how can you complain... just sayin not trying to be a dick.

it is compatible. dont see why it wouldnt, it was just an absolute pain to install. PC part picker gave no indication of install troubles so how was i to know what nightmare i was jumping in to lol

[spartaman64]

noctua all the way lol

[CeremonialSnips]

1 minute ago, HeyYouOK? said:

it is compatible. dont see why it wouldnt, it was just an absolute pain to install. PC part picker gave no indication of install troubles so how was i to know what nightmare i was jumping in to lol

Bro, when you need to remove your mobo io shroud and it takes a hour and a half... I would call it incompatible, I never trust PC Part Picker for compatibility....

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, CeremonialSnips said:

Well did you ask on here if it was compatible or check their compatibility charts?.... I mean, if you didn't do your homework how can you complain... just sayin not trying to be a dick.

It is compatible, but he's saying its just a pain in the ass to install

[HeyYouOK?]

15 hours ago, CeremonialSnips said:

Bro, when you need to remove your mobo io shroud and it takes a hour and a half... I would call it incompatible, I never trust PC Part Picker for compatibility....

true, 

 

but i would rather not come here with every little question. this was my own hubris and brand loyalty getting to me since the dark rock line has been fairly good to me so far.

[CeremonialSnips]

1 minute ago, HeyYouOK? said:

true, 

 

but i would rather not come here with every little question. this was my own hubris and brand loyalty getting to me since the dark rock line has been fairly good to me so far.

I would not be afraid to ask, people here are usually good for random little questions about stuff like this... sure you'll get people who will just google and say it is "compatible" but you may have also gotten actual advice from someone who has attempted the same mobo/cooler combo.... next time don't hesitate, it is what this and other pc forums are meant for.

[Morgan MLGman]

I don't get the whole thing with people having trouble with installing DRP3, I installed it alone when I was assembling a rig that used an ASRock X99 Killer motherboard and it took me like <10 minutes.

[Bcat00]

Should have watched linus video one the thing. The video made it pretty clear be quiet did a garbage job on the mounting design?

[Suika]

5 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I don't get the whole thing with people having trouble with installing DRP3, I installed it alone when I was assembling a rig that used an ASRock X99 Killer motherboard and it took me like <10 minutes.

Mounting process is completely different between LGA2011 and LGA115X. It's pretty simple on 2011, but on basically every other board? I'd rather just buy a new cooler.

 

I even remember having to use a couple of my own washers to mount on an Z87 board because it just wouldn't sit right.

[maremp]

2 minutes ago, Bcat00 said:

Should have watched linus video one the thing. The video made it pretty clear be quiet did a garbage job on the mounting design?

The video was basically luke saying his phat fingers didn't fit in the small hole. 

Every large cooler will be hard to mount, with using proper tools instead of that garbage that comes in the box, it's not that hard of a job.

[Bcat00]

Lol you telling people to go get another tool to mount something they paid huge sums of money for?

 

Yaa no ty. Ill go to the product next to it.(noctua)

[HeyYouOK?]

15 hours ago, CeremonialSnips said:

I would not be afraid to ask, people here are usually good for random little questions about stuff like this... sure you'll get people who will just google and say it is "compatible" but you may have also gotten actual advice from someone who has attempted the same mobo/cooler combo.... next time don't hesitate, it is what this and other pc forums are meant for.

will definitely do next time.

[HeyYouOK?]

15 hours ago, maremp said:

The video was basically luke saying his phat fingers didn't fit in the small hole. 

Every large cooler will be hard to mount, with using proper tools instead of that garbage that comes in the box, it's not that hard of a job.

which is what i had to do. got some small tweezers and pliers just to get the washers to sit right on the points...that little wrench was utter trash.

[WoodenMarker]

1 hour ago, HeyYouOK? said:

it is compatible. dont see why it wouldnt, it was just an absolute pain to install. PC part picker gave no indication of install troubles so how was i to know what nightmare i was jumping in to lol

BeQuiet! doesn't have friendly mounting hardware.

1 hour ago, maremp said:

Every large cooler will be hard to mount, with using proper tools instead of that garbage that comes in the box, it's not that hard of a job.

Check out Noctua or Cryorig's mounting hardware. They're very easy to work with even with their largest coolers.

[aisle9]

3 hours ago, CeremonialSnips said:

Well did you ask on here if it was compatible or check their compatibility charts?.... I mean, if you didn't do your homework how can you complain... just sayin not trying to be a dick.

Clearly you have never seen, let alone installed, a beQuiet cooler.

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Get a CM212 Evo next time.

Pour some gasoline on your CPU while you're at it. If someone's overclocking to the point that they need a DRP3, an EVO, H7, whatever is not going to come close to cutting it.

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

Pour some gasoline on your CPU while you're at it. If someone's overclocking to the point that they need a DRP3, an EVO, H7, whatever is not going to come close to cutting it.

Well then, if that was the case my OC xeon would have melted a long time ago, but it didn't.

 

[maremp]

On 6/22/2016 at 1:54 AM, WoodenMarker said:

Check out Noctua or Cryorig's mounting hardware. They're very easy to work with even with their largest coolers.

Not as easy as smaller form factors or aios. I am currently making a build using D15 and I agree that it's not rocket surgery, but if you're a type of person who can't follow basic instructions, it can be annoying. 

[WoodenMarker]

3 hours ago, maremp said:

Not as easy as smaller form factors or aios. I am currently making a build using D15 and I agree that it's not rocket surgery, but if you're a type of person who can't follow basic instructions, it can be annoying. 

Aside from AMD stock clips and something that uses plastic inserts like the intel stock cooler, how is any aio or small form factor installation easier? 

[maremp]

5 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

Aside from AMD stock clips and something that uses plastic inserts like the intel stock cooler, how is any aio or small form factor installation easier? 

Easier access to mount. Be quiet really failed at that.