A line of high-end coolers designed to cool powerful multi-core processors with little manual overclocking. They are distinguished by a high level of quality, interesting functionality, affordable prices and impressive acoustic characteristics. After all, silent components are one of the main features of the German brand Be quiet.


Dark Rock coolers are tower-type and are designed for high-performance processors with serious heat dissipation from 180 to 250 watts. The height of such a tower starts from 109 and can reach 163 mm. For cooling, a system with a backplate, heat pipes and a single fan is most often used. Less common models with a double cooler. The use of branded Silent Wings coolers with PWM blade speed control is a guarantee of quiet operation even with a heavy load on the network. To emphasize the high status of products, all Dark Rock cooling systems are completely painted black.

In 2018, Be quiet released the fourth generation of the Dark Rock Cooling system, which includes the original Dark Rock 4 tower and several variations, including a smaller Slim version, a Dark Rock Pro with a double fan, and a Pro TR4 modification designed to cool multi-core HEDT processors. from the AMD Ryzen Threadripper series. In addition, in 2021, the German brand presented the second generation of the unusual low-profile Dark Rock TF Top Flow cooler with airflow for the motherboard power subsystem. The new power supplies have gradually squeezed out the sale of the old generations of Be quiet, which were finally discontinued in 2020.