be quiet! Shadow Rock LP and Dark Rock TF - CES 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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HyperX. All right, guys. Welcome to the be quiet! Suite. We'll be checking out
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two different coolers. But first, if you notice behind me, there is the Silent
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Base 800, a case that was recently featured in Linus' Silent Build Guide.
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If you haven't seen that, you should probably check it out. It's a pretty cool video. But back to the heat sinks.
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The first one is a Shadow Rock LP, a lowprofile cooler which sports a very
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impressive 130 watt TDP level. It has
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four six millimeter heat pipes and a 120
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mm Pure Wings 2 fan, which rocks in
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total a pretty impressive 25.5 maximum
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dB in terms of noise, which is probably going to make it lower than many other
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components in your computer, especially if you have a graphics card. It has a three-year warranty and features a dual
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heat sink design as well, which is pretty cool. And this thing will be
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really good for something like a home theater computer or if you just have a
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really small computer in general. Something to note too is that they have
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a nice revision to their mounting design where you can actually feed a screwdriver through the top of the
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cooler instead of trying to work around it, which I massively prefer. The next
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cooler we've got is the Dark Rock TF, which sports a 220 watt TDP if you're
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one of those guys that thinks bigger is better. Six 6 millm heat pipes and two
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135 mm Silent Wings fans. Now, if you
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remove the lower Silent Wings fan, you can support some pretty tall memory as
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that is where it's going to go over top of the memory. Uh, it has a three-year
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warranty just like the previous cooler. And other than that, it's actually
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fairly similar. It has a same kind of dual heat sink design. It just looks
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like they kind of scaled it up a lot and then added a fan in the lower
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compartment. It is a fairly large cooler, but again, like I said, if you
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remove that lower fan, you'll be able to have much better RAM compatibility, so
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it shouldn't be a huge problem. Both of these coolers should be available
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sometime around March if you're interested in getting them. And as
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they're both pretty all right, you might be. Anyways, thank you guys for
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watching. If you want to see all the rest of our CES content, be sure to stay subscribed to Linus Tech Tips. And thank
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you to Phantom Glass for protecting our phones for this trip. And I'm going to
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keep on calling this out because I'm pretty excited for it. But we have a cool video with them coming on later on
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sometime, I think, during this trip. Nick will correct me if not. Um, and
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also Kingston's HyperX YouTube channel. They're getting close to 100,000
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subscribers. They release a lot of really cool like gaming style content.
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Should be sure to check them out as well.