Be quiet! shadow rock 3 is a heatsink with bracket for lga1200

be quiet! has officially launched its new Shadow Rock 3 CPU cooler, an air cooler that has a power of 190W and a design that supports high DRAM modules.

be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 is a heatsink with bracket for LGA1200

Although the company's press release says nothing about it, the Shadow Rock 3 manual has confirmed that this CPU cooler is compatible with Intel's new next-generation LGA1200 socket, a feature that ensures this cooler will be compatible with the company's Comet Lake-S series of processors. In addition to this, be quiet! It is also compatible with all recent AMD and Intel sockets, with AMD's TR4 / sTR4 (Threadripper) sockets being the only ones not supported.

When compared to its predecessor the Shadow Rock 2, the Shadow Rock 3 features several redesigned elements, such as the asymmetric heatsink design for increased DRAM compatibility, the improved Shadow Wins 2 series fan for performance Quiet and better air flow, and an additional heat pipe for better heat transfer than modern processors.

With the radical redesign of be quiet !, the company has achieved almost half the weight on its Shadow Rock 3 by reducing the number of heatsink fins from 51 to 30. This change does not imply a penalty in cooling performance, but the reduction The mass of the heatsink will put less stress on the motherboards and make the heatsink easier to install.

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be quiet! It has confirmed that its Shadow Rock 3 CPU cooler will hit retailers on March 3 for £ 45.99 in the UK, $ 49.90 in the US. and 49.90 euros in Europe. We will keep you informed.

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