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In typical be quiet! fashion, the Pure Rock 2 arrives in a premium looking all-black box with a large image of the cooler and be quiet! Pure Rock 2 logos printed on the front. On the back of the box are some smaller images of the cooler as well as a brief description of the key features.
Contents of the packaging include a smaller brown box filled with accessories, an installation manual in various languages, a 120mm Pure Wings 2 fan and obviously the cooler itself. Inside the smaller box is mounting hardware for all the compatible socket types and four fan retaining clips, enough to install two fans to the cooler.
The base of the Pure Rock 2 features a square thermal transfer plate with a healthy covering of thermal compound pre-applied. With the compound removed we can see that the base looks very accurately machined with the four copper heat pipes set in the centre.
The top face of the aluminium block baseplate includes its own small heatsink fins which may help dissipate heat directly. Moving up the cooler, the aluminium fin stack has a total of 55 fins which look as though they are pressed to the heat pipes rather than soldered, which is common.
At the very top of the heatsink is this thicker aluminium cover plate with a brushed finish and be quiet! logo printed in black at the centre. Integrated into the cover plate are caps covering the top of the heat pipes which gives it a more premium-looking appearance rather than the hideous looking soldered heat pipe top being on view.
Pure Wings 2 fans have been equipped to higher-end be quiet! coolers in the past so it is good to see that they are being used in these more cost-effective models. The fan features the usual ribbed blade design and we all know how quiet these fans run. On the rear of the fan hub is a label displaying specifications and there are no anti-vibration rubbers on the corners.
As we have come to expect from be quiet! products, the build and materials used during manufacture are of a high standard. The bare aluminium and copper version gives a kind of industrial looking appearance while the all-black iteration would be perfect for a stealthy understated system builds.
