AMD FX9590 (5ghz) Review (w/ Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5)

We tested the Bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 cooler back in June 2012. It scored highly in our review and we thought it was a good idea to test it out again today with the high end AMD system. The AMD FX9590 is a 220Watt TDP CPU, and BeQuiet quote 220W TDP support on the front of their box, so it should be a decent match.


The BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 is a very sexy looking cooler, finished in all back, with two high quality fans included. The fans are supplied fitted, so you simply need to attach it to your motherboard.

We built a system featuring both Corsair H100i and the BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 installed. This meant we could swap over coolers easily enough during testing. Both were able to handle the FX9590, but we will delve into this shortly when we look at the motherboard BIOS on the next page.

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