Contents of Package
Contents of Package
The Iceberg is packaged carefully and professionally, the low price in this case is not reflective of the effort taken into such a mundane thing. Attention to detail is what separates one product from another, and this certainly earns it bonus points on my scale. What can be seen is the radiator, fan, pump, reservoir, Intel 478 clamp for the CPU jacket, and lastly a pack of tubing clamps and screws. The tubing can be found underneath all that you see there.
This is just the same thing laid out. I think you’ll appreciate having a better look at things. In this better view, you can see that here is an electrical head that's included so you don't have to hack and cut your case into bits just for your pump, another thoughtful feature. It can be easily attached and detached with a screwdriver, and afterwards you simply just feed the wire through one of your case's PCI slot holes like I did or you could use the extra port holes (like the external SCSI) that standard cases provide you. The Iceberg comes with 6 feet of thick, yet narrow water tubing, a very quiet fan to attach to your radiator and of course the CPU waterblock (jacket) as well as AMD/Intel type retaining clamps.
My first impressions (just looking at it) of the waterblock was that it didn't impress me. It was thin, it was tiny, didn't look like it had much room for effective cooling, and I thought that they would have at least used copper instead of aluminum to compensate for the thin design, although I guess the budget confinements wouldn’t allow for it. I was, however, surprised by its performance considering how tiny the waterblock was. I'll get to that soon enough.
I'm sure you're a little confused, so was I. This is quite an unorthodox design. The water passes around the tiny aluminum bars, before going through the bottom of the block and out to the reservoir. This waterblock design excels because of the extremely high surface area, via the aluminum bars. Other waterblocks have just one fat tunnel for water to pass through, or at most a snake-like or coiling pattern. This means that the “jacket” has several times the surface area of its copper counterparts, making up for the inferior heat transfer. Unfortunately the very thin tubes, coupled with the tight twists and turns will contribute to a significant pressure drop withing the waterblock (pressure drop is bad).
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