be quiet! Shadow Rock Topflow SR1

Zitat: Pro: + Silent cooling + Good looks + Fit and finish + Low profile + DRAM compatibility + Three-year warranty + Ease of installation Having recently looked at be quiet!´s halo design cooling solution, the 220W capable Dark Rock Pro 2, it was interesting to see just how the technologies employed on that product would scale downwards with a C-style cooler. I´m happy to say that running cool and quiet with the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW is a possibility while overclocked with results that are comparable with some pretty capable tower heat sinks. Silence is all relative but being able to push close to 70 CFM of airflow at less than 25dBA means you get enough airflow to do the job yet stay silent enough to please your ears. Inside the Corsair 650D, the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW was inaudible from three feet away. At 126mm tall, the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW is not what I would call low profile but it is shorter than most tower design cooling solutions. Installation of the cooler was, for the most part, a carbon copy of the experience I had installing the Dark Rock Pro 2. Only one significant difference in the installation was the use of O-rings to keep the screws in the back plate versus the clips used on be quiet!´s halo CPU cooler. Just hold the cooler in place and locate the threaded hole in the mounting plate and start the first screw. Locating the rest of the screws from that point is simple. The robust back plate is the same one used on the much larger Dark Rock Pro 2 but with this design it is not supporting nearly the weight. DRAM compatibility is improved with the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW as the bottom of the heat sink sits higher up, providing that added clearance needed for taller high performance memory DIMMs. I really could not find anything out of place with this cooler from be quiet!. It looks good, delivers pretty decent temperatures, is quiet, easy to install, and comes with a three-year warranty. If you are looking for that ultimate heat sink that is going to allow you to step up your overclock to the next level, the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW is not your cooler with its 160W capacity. If looking for a good looking low profile cooler that can handle a mild overclock and runs quietly, then the Shadow Rock TOPFLOW is a heat sink that is up for consideration. At $55 it is at a price point that won´t break the budget.

Zitat: Pro: + Good top-down cooling performance + 135mm fan is very quiet + Will cool an overclocked chip + Competitive pricing Con: - Installation can be tricky - Low-profile, but not entirely space saving ...the Shadow Rock TopFlow does well to keep a Core i7-3770K running reasonably cool at 4.4GHz. Better yet, it offers a certain level of performance while making very little noise. Whether you´re in the market for a power supply , a cooler or a simple fan , be quiet! is a brand that should most certainly be on your radar. Top-notch build quality, good performance and near-silent operation are just some of the attributes that have become synonymous with many of the company´s products, and though there´s room for improvement, the Shadow Rock TopFlow acts as an extension of that winning formula. For a low-profile solution, cooling performance is comfortably better than reference and the Shadow Rock TopFlow does well to keep a Core i7-3770K running reasonably cool at 4.4GHz. Better yet, it offers a certain level of performance while making very little noise. be quiet!´s sub-£40 price tag is keen - at least compared to rival top-down solutions - but there are a few provisos to be aware of. If cooling performance on an overclocked chip is your primary concern, a traditional tower will almost certainly be more efficient, and don´t be too easily lured by the Shadow Rock TopFlow´s classification as a low-profile cooler. Sure, it´s shorter than most high-end alternatives, but it´s still a sizeable beast. Then again, sit the Shadow Rock TopFlow on top of a mini-ITX board and it won´t just cool the CPU, it´ll act as a giant heatsink for practically the entire board.

Zitat: + Günstiger Preis + Kühlt umliegende Komponenten + Gute Leistung mit nur einem Lüfter

Zitat: Pro: sehr saubere und hochwertige Verarbeitungsqualität (Lüfter und Kühler) + überzeugende Leistung für einen Top-Blow-Cooler + Lüfter auch bei hoher Umdrehungszahl leise + passt auf alle gängigen Sockeltypen drauf (inkl. Intel 2011) + sicheres Montagesystem + ordentlicher Lieferumfang Contra: nicht geeignet für kleine Gehäuse Mit dem Shadow Rock TopFlow SR1 kann Hersteller be quiet! problemlos mit der starken Konkurrenz mithalten - im Bereich Lautstärke ist der Shadow Rock sogar Platz 1. Aber auch die sehr gute Kühlleistung und einwandfreie Verarbeitungsqualität sprechen für unser Testmuster. Der Preis von knapp 36 Euro geht angesichts der gebotenen Leistung und Qualität absolut in Ordnung. Christoph meint: Exzellenter Top-Blower!