Reviewers Liked
- Silent 135mm cooling fan
- Good build quality
- Low noise levels
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Expensive
Slim tower CPU coolers make room for both a big fan and memory clearence, but are they powerful enough for an overclocked 6-core Haswell-E CPU?They might not be light, but they certainly are slim. I'm not talking about professional athletes but single...
Today's review is the Be quiet! SHADOW ROCK SLIM. Our first look at product from the company, I purchased one of their power supply a number of years back and it's delivered the goods daily, without issue ever since. Anyway let's tackle something before...
Here we are once again, the end of a review where I have put a cooler through its paces and tried to give it a proper beat down! Is it still standing or has it fallen to our beat down like only a few others before it? Let's see… Starting off with the...
BeQuiet's Shadow Rock Slim heatsink stands 159mm tall and has a footprint of 130x74mm so it will fit most motherboards where space between the memory slots and videocard is on the tight side. The heatsink employs a single 136x136x22mm fan that spins at...
Cast your eye over the bequiet cooler range and you'll see that there's something for everyone in there. Having already looked at the Dark Rock Pro3 and seen the bloody nose that it gave to the mighty D14, we thought we'd have a look at the other end of...
The Shadow Rock Slim offers excellent CPU cooling performance and good value in a space-saving single-tower...
be quiet! is a relative new comer to the US computer component market with an award-winning reputation for high quality power supplies and components in their native Germany. Recently, they have branched out into the highly competive cooling space with...
A CPU cooler can be very cheap, very expensive and can even cost you up to 100 euros. For this article we tested 39 current CPU coolers and try to find out which one has the best cooling, is the quietest or ideally which one excels at both. Every...
The Be Quiet Shadow Rock Slim CPU Cooler is by far one of the better value oriented CPU coolers on the market. It does not block any of the RAM slots. It's ease of Installation, good looks, performance and Inaudible Operation make it one of the best air...
As with any computer component the designers set out to accomplish a goal and sometimes those goals overlap the different product lines. Early in this review we mentioned that bequiet! has two cooler lines, the Dark Rock and the Shadow Rock. These were...
be quiet! are well-known in the industry for doing one thing incredibly well, making super quiet performance products; their power supplies, fans and CPU coolers have won many awards for their whisper quiet acoustics and their high-end cooling. The main...
Testing the Shadow Rock Slim with our 3930k system didn't seem right at first but that changed right after we recorded the very first results. Of course even at the best possible scenario we never expected stellar performance levels from it due to its...
It seems like there are a million different ways to design a CPU cooler, and each big company has at least one of each type. In the case of be quiet!, we have reviewed their Dark Rock Pro 2 , a giant dual tower cooler with 120 and 135mm fans, as well as...
The be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim delivers superb performance, in spite of its slightly smaller size and simpler construction compared to most high-end coolers. Our sample didn't suffer from any of the issues that plagued our testing of the Dark Rock 2....
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