At the PCM Awards the enduser chose their favorite brands. be quiet! reaches third place.

The PCM-Award is a dutch award, which is given away based on user opinions. Be quiet! is very proud to score third place in this important survey. It shows, that market attention for be quiet! in foreign countries is rising steadily.

Hardware.Info chose be quiet! power supply for their May-configuration

Hardware.Info chose another be quiet! product for their Media-Center-configuration in May 2011. They decided to use one of be quiet's Pure Power products with 300 watts.

"The be quiet! Pure Power L7 300W is the most quiet psu we have tested. Of course this psu is stable enough to provide all components with enough power, and the be quiet! Pure Power L7 300W has a energy efficiency of 84%!."

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Xsreviews the be quiet Dark Rock Pro. Harder, better, faster, stronger and: BIGGER.

British site XSReviews.co.uk awards the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro C1 with 4 out of 5 stars, for excellent, inaudible performance, packed in a monstreous black heatsink.

"To conclude there aren't to many bad things we can say about this cooler. That said, this air cooler is top-notch and definitely belongs in the top segment of the market."

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Dark Rock Pro against four opponents at C't

Germany's most renomated print magazine on IT-topics, C't, compared five tower-coolers for high-end processors. One of them was the Dark Rock Pro, which performed really good and was very well able to compete against its components. As C't is one of the best known IT-magazines in Germany, they tested really carefully. For example, they also checked the PWM polling-rate of the fans, which is very unique.

be quiet! was happy to help

German PC Games Hardware covered teh topic of "high pitched noise sources" in power supplies. In their issue 06/2011 they did a great article about the backgrounds on this topic. Where do these enerving sounds come from? How can it be avoided? be quiet! was able to help the editors during their research, since be quiet! reduced these noises really effectively in their newest product series.

Hardwareluxx recommends cooler and fan from be quiet!

In their recent issue 03/2011 German Hardwareluxx print magazine did a piece on silent computer systems. Of course, there are also lots of recommendations. Dark Rock Pro CPU cooler and Silent Wings USC 140mm were both favorited.

PC-Max reviews Dark Rock Advanced and Pro

PC-Max took their chance and grabbed both new CPU coolers from be quiet! to review them. In the end, both of them made a great impression on the editor. PC-Max is one of the few magazines, where there is always a video in their reviews. There's also one on the be quiet! coolers

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Dark Rock Pro: Au-Ja says "very good"

One of the last german online magazines to review the Dark Rock Pro cooler was Au-Ja. When they finally did take a look at the Dark Rock Pro, they were quite amazed and gave away a "very good"-Award, as well as some nice words on the product.

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Hardwareluxx discovers all the noise sources in a psu

Contrary to people's belief it's not only the fan, which is noise source within a psu. As Hardwareluxx discovers in their 03/2011-issue, there are several components which might produce unwanted noise. For example it can be a low quality chassis or poorly isolated electrical parts. be quiet! was happy to help the editors with their reasearch for this interesting article. be quiet! was also mentioned in a positive way, since the company put a lot of effort into the elimination of these noises within the newest product series.

Caseumbau uses heat-element for testing

Double towercooler Dark Rock Pro could gain a "Gold award" at german online-magazine Caseumbau. Even though they are using a very specific teststation which is not using a real processor but a heating-element instead. They can reproduce any value of thermal design power.

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