be quiet! Pure Rock 2 air cooler, 150W TDP cooling power, 4 high-performance 6mm heat pipes, HDT technology, Pure Wings 2 120mm PWM fan, brushed aluminum finish, easily installable

My current AIO had failed even though it was a quality brand, it had lasted only 4 years. Considering the replacement cost of another AIO I decided to try an air cooler instead. Be Quiet is a German manufacturer and has an excellent reputation for build quality and value for money. This cooler was rated as more than adequate for my AMD 65W TDP cpu, it came with 4 pin pwm cooling fan. The fitting instructions were very easy to follow although I initially didn't notice I had installed it the wrong way round. The cooler is designed with an offset so that it will clear tall RAM modules, my fault I didn't pay attention to this. Fitting was very easy and the cooler comes with a variety of adapters for both Intel and AMD cpu's. Performance so far has been really good, my 5800x cpu has a temperature in the low 30's centigrade at idle and reaches the low 60's when playing Call of Duty MW3 at 1440p.

I have an aging PC but its a PC that suits my needs. I have had it for six years from new, and the only issue I have noticed recently is the CPU temps while at normal general usage, are fine but if I do something that is quite intensive like converting videos, my temps spike to 100 degrees.To give an idea of specs, it is an Asus H110-R micro ATX mother board with an Intel i7 770 cpu and 32gb of ram. I have not done much with it over the years except add ram (it originally had one 8gb stick and now has two 16gb sticks) and add in a 2.5gb network card.The cooler that came with it was your basic run of the mill stock cooler.The CPU under general use was running around 45 to 46 degrees and as I say, 100 degrees under heavy load, which as anyone will know is not great.As I cannot upgrade my whole PC right now, I have decided to do what I can to extend its life. The cooler was an obvious choice. I have heard good things about Be Quiet coolers, so thought I would go with this one. Maybe it is overkill, I don't know, but I felt it was a fair price and has fittings for both Intel and AMD boards.I did watch a video on youtube beforehand to see how easy or hard it would be to fit, and I can only guess that there has been some revisions to its design as it was slightly different in a few places.But anyway, the instructions sheet that comes with it is quite useful, although it does get a little confusing with the screws as its not exactly 100% clear which to use sometimes.As you can expect with a lot of these kind of things, fitting it can be fiddly in places due to space in your rig and while fitting the bracket you have to mess about with both sides of the board while fitting the screws etc. Fine if you have dainty fingers, and not huge sausage fingers like me.There was a slight issue with screwing the actual cooler to the brackets, but after a bit of a faff I finally got that sorted as well.Probably the most awkward part was the clips that attach the fan to the main body of the cooler. But even that really wasnt that difficult and I could have probably made things easier by removing the ram giving myself more room.The cooler comes with one fan which you can fit either side of the main body, and has arrow markings on it to show which direction the fan spins and the direction of the air . You can fit a second fan if you feel like buying one and attaching it to the opposite side and the kit does come with a spare set of clips to attach it. This will obviously be dependant on whether your board will allow it as fans need power.So after a rather sweaty annoying session fitting the cooler it was time to test the PC out, and amazingly it all booted up with no issues and is currently running perfectly as I am typing this review with said PC.On general usage I am currently getting around 10 degrees less than before, and while doing a video conversion it actually only went up to 75 degrees, which is much better.Another thing that is cool with this cooler is it comes with already pre-applied thermal paste. Of course if you are not happy with that you are free to use your own, but if you don't mind using what is supplied it means it works straight out of the box without the need of spending money on thermal paste on top of the price of the cooler.Very happy with my purchase and fingers crossed it can help my PC last a few years longer now.Oh, and this will be very dependant on your rig, but you may need to adjust your fan speeds in the bios as sometimes these things default to full speed, which really is not necessary on most rigs.And yes, it is very quiet.

Was delivered quickly and runs quietly. Very fiddly to install and seems a little skimpy, but once set up there were no further problems and no overheating from my cpu either, however I do not overclock my CPU so if you plan to do so, you may have to purchase bigger CPU cooling unit.

Relatively easy to install, the “seesaw” type screw mechanism for holding the fan down is a little tricky to manoeuvre and applying the actual fan over the radiator is painful to say the least as a result of the metal “cards” on the radiator you need to wrap the fan around! Other than that the fan is silent, keeps my cpu very cool and aesthetically the black fan and radiator fits perfectly with my build.

My computer is an ASUS B550 Plus, fitted with a RYZEN 5 5600g CPU and Wraith Stealth Cooler. It just ran TOO hot for my liking. Even at idle the temperature was 48°C to 52°C with the fan running at full speed. It was noisy.So, I replaced the stock cooler with this one. What a difference it made. That temperature shown in the screen shot was taken with a ambient room temperature of 24.5°C watching YouTube.Fitting is straight forward and it came supplied already coated with thermal paste.Points to note!1. The pillars supplied have a recess at one end only to fit over the motherboard back plate pillar coming through the motherboard, so make sure the recess end fits onto the backplate correctly. This is not shown in the instructions.2. You MUST recalibrate the BIOS Q-Fan settings. In the BIOS look for Q-Fan and start the calibration process. WHY, because the motherboard will not detect the low fan speed correctly and may not boot up or turn off some LED features on the motherboard. If this is a bug with ASUS I cannot find any reference to it. My system Booted up but the aura LED's were disabled. After the fan calibration everything was ok.Well, with that minor issue over I can highly recommend this cooler.

It was a bit fiddly to install, it may have been easier if I had taken the motherboard out from the case, but that seemed like far too much hassle having to disconnect and remove all components.BUT, this is the best purchase I have made for my pc in years! I do a fair bit of video editing etc. and my old fan was so loud it sounded like my px was going to take off. This new fan is quieter when the cpu is running flat out at 100% than my old one was when the cpu was idling. It's brilliant.I can't stress this enough, if you have a loud fan and are looking to replace it, get this one!great price too, considering how much some of the water cooler ones cost.

Not silent, but very very quiet. A big upgrade over a stock cooler. Nearly 160mm high so won't fit in slimmer cases.