Finished Looks

Considering the design lacks any kind of lighting, its high contrast black and silver design livens things up a bit, but I wouldn't necessarily consider the design attractive. While it will certainly be to some builders' tastes, it just doesn't appeal to me as much as the Dark Rock series of coolers. With that said, the silver and black theme should still be a nice addition in an appropriate build all the same; for example, I can see this cooler fitting in perfectly on an ASRock Taichi motherboard.


Graphics card and memory clearance are perfect, which is a nice surprise considering the size of the cooler. While the design offers perfect memory clearance, I wasn't entirely sure it would clear the first expansion slot, which on some motherboards (Mini-ITX and Micro-ATX) is the primary PCIe slot. This assumption turned out to be wrong. Since the cooler doesn't conflict with the first expansion slot, it should be just fine for the majority of builds if the height of 163 mm doesn't prove to be an issue depending on case selection.