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The cooler is packaged well, cushioned and bundled safely in the traditional black / white / orange be quiet! design box, TF btw is short for Top Flow.
Once unboxed you'll spot the cooling unit consisting of the heatsink assembly, fan and brackets + back plate that supports a very wide range of AMD and Intel processors. Pretty much anything Intel is supported and AMD upto and including AM4 Ryzen, (but not Threadripper.) Intel: LGA 775 / 115x / 1366 / 2011(-3) Square ILM / 2066 AMD: AM2(+) / AM3(+) / AM4 / FM1 / FM2(+). A little thermal paste is pre-applied to the cooling block well. Shadow Rock TF 2 cools down the CPU significantly better than its predecessor at a similar TDP rating of 160W.
Above, the cooler placed on its back, we can see the base plate. It uses five copper based heat pipes arranged in a U-shaped design with the fan located at the opposing side in at the top. The fins effectively disperse heat away from the CPU via composite heat pipes. The fin stack itself is moved back slightly in order to bring the fan closer to the center of the cooler,= and helping with RAM compatibility.
On top you will see a nice big 135mm PWM-version fan, low RPM. At 50% duty, the fan will produce only 12 dBA. And in our testing you will notice, at processor defaults you simply cannot hear this fan.
