be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim CPU Cooler Review




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Performance


The Shadow Rock Slim offered up pretty moderate performance in our stock tests, nothing really note worthy here but certainly enough to keep our i5 3750K well within a safe margin, even when under heavy load.

stock temps 05-07-2014

Interestingly the Shadow Rock Slim is on par with the much more expensive Dark Rock Pro 3 in our overclocking tests. This is very surprising, but I think the difference would really start to show if you’re pushing your CPU clocks even higher, as the Pro will handle a lot more heat in the long run.

overclocked temps 05-07-14

It wouldn’t be a be quiet! cooler if it wasn’t one of the quietest we’ve ever tested, just a little quieter than the Dark Rock Pro 3, and so it should be since the Pro has two 135mm fans, the Slim only has one. 39dBa is barely a whisper above the 36dBa ambient I recorded while testing this cooler.

stock acoustics 05-07-14

Overclocking test done and the Shadow rock Slim is the quietest fan equipped coolers I’ve ever tested. In fact I really love this chart as it shows just how quiet be quiet! can be, given that the Shadow Rock, Dark Rock Pro 3 and the Dark Rock 3 are the top free on this chart for low noise, aside from the NoFan which is a passive cooler.

overclocked acoustics 05-07-14

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