Suprise Performance 🎁 DeepCool AK620 Zero Dark

the Deep cool assassin 4 is definitely an outstanding air cooler no doubts there but what if you don't want to go with that no front facing fan design but you still want to have that deep cool elegance and performance to some degree this is the Deep cool AK 620 zero do deep Cool's latest regular dual Tower dual fan cooler the AK 620 exists in multiple versions a white and another similarly shaped one but with a little monitor on top for today however we will only focus on the Zero Dark which is exactly as you would expect zero color it comes in the usual deep cool style box a high quality packaging containing the heat sink two fans mounting hardware for all nowadays relevant sockets some thermal paste and a one to2 pvm splitter to combine the fence standing on the table the old black heat sink measures 160 mm in height so it still counts as relatively comp compartible with the average midtower case in the bottom we got the usual deep cool style base a 39.4 by 41.7 mm nickel plated base with six 6 mm heat pipes traveling up the 49 all black fins until reaching the two heat syn covers which are obviously not black because somebody didn't read the memo the two fans that come included with the dark zero are unnamed inous made 120 mm fans which are actually quite they are spinning at up to 1850 RPM whil it's pushing up to 6899 CFM at up to 2.19 mm of H2 and yelling up up to 28 dbaa the corner of the fans are covered in a giant piece of rubber for additional vibration absorption and even if the default setting allows for only 33 mm High Ram because the right one is you know definitely protruding over the ram you are able to move it up thanks to to deep cool relying on fan clips and voila no matter how high your RAM is it will always fit the fan blade design is also quite interesting we got nine heavily bent Wings a bit like an a12 fesk but spinning counterclockwise to install the cooler it's the exact same process as we saw on the Assassin 4 for AMD we need to remove the pre-installed retention brackets and replace them with the AMD labeled screws from there we need to take the AMD brackets and position them in an inwards pointing position and screw them down using the thumb screws over nint we need to take and adjust the appropriate back plate according to your socket and the brackets and position them in an inwards pointing position and then screw everything down using the thumb screws from there thermal paste screw it down using the Allen wrench and connect everything and now let's take a closer look at the benchmarks we Benchmark the cooler on our standardized Benchmark machine featuring a 3900k with three different presets 120 to 50 50 and 320 wat at 120 wats which would be the most accurate for gaming type workloads the AK 620 doc managed to keep the CPU at 33.5 de C which is an excellent result sure it's behind things like dark rock 5 series and naturally is also behind the Deep cool assassin 4 no shocking Revelation there but considering it's a six heat pipe dual Tower it's pretty good it performs exactly like the Nokia nhd15 and manag to be a couple of other similarly sized and equipped coolers pretty good so far by slowly lowering the fan speed and temper steps and noting down the noise and temperature we create these noise to Performance graphs at 120 watts the 620 performed okay it's definitely not a chart topper but it is quite close to all chart Toppers like the nhd15 interesting to see however was the difference between the AK 620 and assassin 4 because it isn't as big as we expected it to be sure the Assassin is better no doubts there but not by that much once the fans produced the same amount of noise pushing the load up to 250 Watts made the AK 620 fall slightly behind its previous spot at 65.3 De C above ambient it is still an excellent air cooler considering what it is but now it's started to fall behind things like the nhd15 or thermal R purus assassin 120s The Noise two performance ratio looks more interesting this time around at 250 wats the difference between the AK 620 and assassin 4 becomes indistinguishable once both produce the same amount of noise seems to me like the additional heat pipe of the Assassin 4 doesn't give it any advantage once the heat cannot be dissipated compared to other coolers it's roughly where it was before even the slight win against the nhd15 in extremely low fan speeds remained slightly shocking was that the AK 620 managed to survive 320 Watts going through the socket not at all recommendable but doable however remember the difference between survive and cool down where the Assassin is actually cooling something across multiple fan speeds the AK 620 gives up when doing anything other than fan absolute burst performance so performance- wise it's an absolutely solid cooler comparable to a noia nhd15 but with slightly louder fans or like a minimally weaker version of the sassin 4 and in that regard I did kind of expect a a bigger difference between the two sure the Assassin 4 is really really good on its own and looks interesting as s but I would have expected that the AK 620 would be like 5 or 10% behind the Assassin 4 not like a tiny bit other than that the cooler definitely feels solid upper shelf build quality it's not the Assassin 4 of course not but I would compare it to an nh15 without the doubt I just don't particularly enjoy top covers myself for the design it's an all black with a tiny Touch of deep cool logo generally very well implemented and as a standalone cooler definitely recommendable for higher end CPUs not an R9 or I9 but everything below which would mostly be used for gaming this would be fine for that and it won't be noticeably loud but what about the price right now I can get one of these for 7374 which is an okay price considering where it stands on the charts it's acceptable when comparing to for example a be quiet dark rock or nocta nhd15 but okay for today this is going to be it for deep C and their AK 620 dark zero which isn't that dark after all on a side note we have a Discord server so if you want to join the link is down below and of course we still have Channel membership so if you're looking for a good way to sell yourself on a poop emoji that's a pretty good way to go Additionally you can rest assure that the income will not only keep the channel float but it will also serve to repaint the spot that one deep cool employee screwed up zero means zero anyway thank you for watching and if you want to continue have a look at our take on the Deep cool SSN 4 it's like the zero dark but a tiny bit better hope to see you on the next one bye-bye

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Length: 7min 29sec (449 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 10 2024