be quiet! Pure Rock Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 14.04.15Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| With the Pure Rock, be quiet! has a convincing product in its CPU cooler lineup. It is an affordable mid-range cooler and features great manufacturing quality. The overall performance is good and noise levels are very good as well. The cooler is extremely silent with the bundled PWM fan at 7 volt. The mounting system is also practical and compatible with all Intel sockets since LGA775, including the latest Intel LGA 2011 v3, as well as all AMD sockets from AM2 to FM2. |
- Noise levels
- Quality - PWM - Mouting - Price - Socket compatibility |
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| Installation | + | - | |
| Mounting is easy and practical and the mounting kit is compatible with any recent Intel and AMD socket. The mounting mechanism parts are solid, and thermal paste comes pre-applied. |
- Easy and practical
- Compatible Intel and AMD - Thermal compound (Tube) |
- Thermal compound not include | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| The cooling performance of the be quiet Pure Rock is good. We find this particular model in the center span of our charts. Overall the Pure Rock does a very good job compared to many of its main rivals. | - Cooling performances | ||
| Noise Levels | + | - | |
| The overall noise levels are very good as well and the be quiet! Pure Rock CPU cooler is relatively silent. Using the fans PWM capabilities or setting the voltage to 7V makes this cooler become virtually inaudible. Even at 12V the fan is silent. | - Silent PWM and 7V-12V | ||
| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| Since it features a truly excellent fan as well as decent cooling performance, we definitely recommend this cooler. The be quiet! Pure Rock is a high quality product with a very reasonable price of 28 Euros, and even good enough to put to shame some higher priced and bigger coolers from the competition. |
- Price
- Office PC - Gaming |
- Overclocking | |
| Rating | |||
| We gave the Pure Rock from be quiet 4.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
| Page 1 - Presentation / Specifications |
| Page 2 - Photo Gallery |
| Page 3 - Installation & Test Setup |
| Page 4 - Absolute Performance |
| Page 5 - PWM Performance |
| Page 6 - Conclusion |
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