be quiet! Pure Power & Power Zone PSUs, Shadow Rock 2, Shadow Rock Slim - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is
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nc.com we're here in the be quiet! Booth here at computex 2013 where we've got
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some products to no I'm just kidding I'll talk normally guys so we're here in the be quiet! Booth where we've got some
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new products to show off this one right here is the be quiet! pure power so it's
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not really modular you know it's still got a really nice look to it so you got
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a be quiet! fan in there of course these are legendary fans very very as you may
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or may not have guessed extremely noisy no just kidding they're quiet okay so
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there's that going for it non- modular power supply but what I like about this
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one is it's meant to compete with something like a builder series from
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Corsair in terms of price and capacities available and check this out be quiet!
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actually puts a reasonable number of connectors on the thing it's a 600 W
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power supply that we have right here and look at that four PCI S6 plus two pin
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connectors very very nice the problem with what most manufacturers are doing
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these days is they're forgetting that we're not dealing with Pentium D anymore
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with fourth generation core series processors code name Haswell as we like
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to call them the power consumption is actually so low unless you're
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overclocking to an insane amount that you could easily run two graphics cards
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like 6600 TI or GTX 660 Ti or something
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along those lines with a fourth generation processor and you're not
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going to exceed 600 watts so it's great to see a power supply that actually has
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the right number of connectors for the kind of system you can build with it
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these two things over here aren't really new but this one is this is the power
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zone so you can tell from The Styling this is going to be more for like your
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uh your show rig so you got some cool textures on the side there you've got
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some cool sort of grills on the back there and then you've got aha that's a
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silent Wings 3 Fan H right now silent
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Wings 2 are the fans that are out there on the market as Standalone this is a
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single rail power supply and check this out it's 80 plus bronze so it comes in
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at a pretty attractive price point but you've still got support for a bunch of
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really cool stuff like a fully modular interface right here as well as you see
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those fans ports you have adapters that are included with the power supply that
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allow your PSU to actually control your case fans as well so your power supply
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not only keeps itself quiet but it also keeps the rest of your system more quiet
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we going to party like it's 13 12 tonight we got oh wait no this is oh
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crap no I got this wrong this isn't body rock okay this is the Shadow Rock to
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from be quiet! so this is a pretty big
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departure from what we've seen in the past from them for air coolers and one
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of the things that you guys are going to like about it in terms of departure from
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the past is that this is going to be priced at 40 bucks us so it's a large
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quad thick heat pipe Tower cooler that's
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got a nice plate on the top so it doesn't look sort of ridiculous and it's
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also got a ton of fan mounting options so on every corner you've got room for
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these fan Clips to go either way so you never have to worry about oh well you
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know I had to orient my uh my CPU Cooler this way so I wasn't able to have like
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you know my fan blowing towards wherever no you have the option to put it
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wherever you want and again the pricing
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is going to be very very attractive this one right here is intriguing to me this
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is the Shadow Rock Slim So what this does is it has okay so it has smaller
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heat pipes but get this this is Taiwanese made so it's manufactured in
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Taiwan it uses higher quality heat pipes this is actually the same OEM that
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builds the heat pipes for MacBook Pro so they're very high quality heat pipes
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extremely high quality materials get the same performance as Shadow Rock 2 except
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that because it's so slim so they're using a custom 20 mm design for the fan
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so that it is lower profile you can actually install this in for example x79
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platforms where you have high-profile dims on either side or even on something
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like a Z87 platform where you want the fan and you want your high-profile dims
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and you don't want to have any interference whatsoever this one is
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incredibly intriguing to me they've also expanded the fan Mountain Clips on
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something like the dark Rock 2 it was a little bit difficult you couldn't really Mount two fans unless you would really
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did some modding but with this one they've left the gaps open so you could
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even install a couple of different fans on it if you wanted thanks for checking
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out our coverage of the be quiet! Suite here at computex 2013 don't forget our
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