Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Slim

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 9 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Silent 135mm cooling fan
Good build quality
Low noise levels

Cons:

Expensive

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Last revision on February 21, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Silent 135mm cooling fan
Good build quality
Low noise levels

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Expert reviews and ratings

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...

By Tom's Hardware UK on February 19, 2016

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...

By techicizec.com on December 07, 2015

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...

By Play3r on July 29, 2014

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...

By FrostyTech on June 08, 2014

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...

By Overclock3D on May 02, 2014

The Shadow Rock Slim offers excellent CPU cooling performance and good value in a space-saving single-tower...

By Tom's Hardware on February 18, 2016

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...

By PCPer on October 07, 2014

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...

By uk.hardware.info on October 06, 2014

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...

By proclockers.com on August 30, 2014

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...

By hardwareasylum.com on August 27, 2014

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