Product ReviewsBe Quiet! Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler LGA775/1150/1155/1156/1366/2011 FM1/FM2/AM2/AM3
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 Rating: Review Date: 03/15/14  |
Cons: none if on sale
Pros: great cooler for nice sale price |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/22/14 |
Cons: Does not come with mounting kit for second fan.Does not come with nuts and bolts for LGA 2011 socket.The size of heat sink is bulky and may be difficult to change video crad because of tight space. I intend to install to the test bench, but found not suitable.
Pros: Strong CPU cooler Comment:
I first test it on i5-3750 and found cooling is sufficient for overclocking.But When I try to test it on i7-3820 LGA 2011 scket, I was supreised it did not come with the bolts and nuts for LGA 2011 socket. The maunal said it does support LGA 2011 socket but no bolts and nuts included. Very disappointmed. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/14/14 |
Cons: -Mounting mechanism is not the easiest-No clips for second fan
Pros: -Price when on sale-Build quality-Excellent stock fan Comment:
This is a great heatsink at the sale price of 30 dollars. Cools my AMD FX8320 overclocked to 4ghz with minimal noise. Mounting this unit with motherboard in a case is nearly impossible (Fractal XL R2). Even outside the case is a bit of a challenge. I wish it came with a second set of clips so I can easily attach a second fan, but zipties will have to do. Performance is very good, stock fan has excellent noise characteristics, a second low-noise fan (Scythe S-Flex) improved the temperature but a few degrees without adding any noise. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/13/14 |
Cons: - Major pain in the *** for the backplate installation. Good luck doing it alone. That thing is so huge and heavy that you'll need someone to hold it on the motherboard while you go behind your motherboard that's already installed in the case, to align the screws and put the backplate.- Ridiculously overpriced at regular price of 60$. I only bought it because it was 30$, so 0-5$ less than the famous (Coolermaster 212 Evo) as I've installed a lot of 212 Plus in the past and had one in a push-pull configuration.- Extremely huge so make sure you have the clearance around your cpu socket with the vrm heatsinks and your ram. With it's height you won't have problems but the fan won't fit if the ram's heatsink if you have tall memory. I have (Mushkin Redline 2x4 DDR3-2133) and I had to raise the fan 1cm from the top of the heatsink so it fit flush underneath. The fan reach the farthest memory slot. I still have clearance between the fan and my side panel but the whole heatsink, fan or not, will prolly not fit your case if it has a 200-230mm side fan as those are usualy at least 1" thick.- Even if the heatsink is symmetrical cube, you cannot make a push-pull configuration. It's a shame BeQuiet at such price didn't even include a second 50¢ fan mount. Okay.. anyway I would have got no clearance at all to install the second fan anywhere else and my rear case (Corsair 750D) fan is already within 1" of distance so I don't mind too much but I'm just letting you know.
Pros: - Very silent!- Looks pretty good :)- Very good performance for 30$. Comment:
Overall it was a very good deal at 30$ because this heatsink is in average 3 Celcius less than the highly popular (CoolerMaster 212 Evo) while being even more quiet so it was a win-win situation for the same price, though it comes at the cost of having something quite bulkier. The silver heatsink looks really cool with my (NZXT Hue) led kit reflecting on it so it's great even though it hides most of the nice look of my (MSI Z87-GD65) motherboard because of it's size.My i7 4770K in TurboMode at 3.9Ghz 1.237v was at 90-93C on Prime95 but I didn't install yet the optional fans in my Corsair 750D and I don't know if there was a cure time for the (Arctic Cooling MX-4) compound so it can only get better soon. |
good price-performance ratio.included fan is quiet