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Be Quiet Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler Review

Henry Butt August 12, 2013 Cooling, Featured Announcement

To test the performance of the Be Quiet! Shadow Rock 2 we built a powerful X79 based system on an open test bench to push the cooler to it’s limits.  As we were testing on an open test bench, we directed a Be Quiet! Shadow Wings 120 mm fan at the VRM circuitry to better simulate the airflow generated in a case.

Test System
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K
  • Motherboard: Asus P9X79
  • Memory: 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) Mushkin Blackline 1600 MHz
  • Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2
  • Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7950
  • Graphics Card (noise tests): HIS Radeon HD 5550 Silence
  • Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum P1000W
Software
  • Prime 95 (64-bit)
  • CPUID Hardware Monitor

Overclocking

We manually overclocked the i7-3930K to 4.3 GHz by increasing the multiplier to 43x, leaving the baseclock set at 100 MHz.  We set the voltage to 1.35V.

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3 comments

  1. Harris
    August 12, 2013 at 8:44 am

    They make such great fans. I use several of them in my system and its transformed it (thermaltake case). Highly recommended from me!

  2. Ben
    August 12, 2013 at 8:47 am

    yeah great coolers, I almost bought one and im sorry I didnt now. as my corsair H60i is loud as hell.,

  3. Jim
    August 12, 2013 at 8:49 am

    expensive IMO, like their products, but they are always priced a little higher than competitors and most people wouldn’t mind a little extra noise for more cooling performance.

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