Ibercool 4-Ways GPU

Price – 47 – 52 Euro

Ibercool is a small Spanish watercooling company that is not well known in the US market. Indeed you may need to buy from a European store to source one. The “4 way block” is so named because it has four optional ports, two for input and two for output. The block is designed to compete as a value proposition. Despite this the packaging is attractive:

Instructions, TIM and accessories included:

The block itself is machined cleanly and has a good finish to it:

We were also sent some of the VRAM heatsinks which were required to overclock the memory from 1250MHz to 1375MHz:

The VRAM was easy to attach to the GPU as they had pre-fitted sticky thermal pads. After concluding the test though the thermal pads could not be reapplied after being removed once. The pads could have their stickiness improved therefore.

The mount for the block used a traditional style thumbscrew + spring. The thumbscrew screwed on to a screw that was secured to the PCB with a nut and a huge amount of washers. Springs are used to balance the mounting pressure. This system was easy to use and despite the number of washers was still quite quick to install. Presumably using standard parts led to costs savings for the end users – and an ability to easily replace a missing part! While not as quick to mount as some other blocks it was easy and foolproof. (Mount is not completed in this photo)

The block itself had a decently wide spacing for fittings, and the ability to mount one fitting on the side of the block and one on the top further increases it’s capability.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Is there any reason why the Micro SW-X can not be used in combination with any other universal cooler? My choice would be the EK Supremacy VGA (mostly because it’s so tiny and should allow the use of VGA cooling pads compared to some other bigger models) with the Micro SW-X in series.

  2. Also, how where did you get that T-shaped VRAM – VRM heatsink? http://abload.de/img/mxlcv7010sd7.jpg Why is it T-shaped? Are the surface mount components beside the VRM higher than the VRM itself? Same problem like with the GPU – VRM? I am a bit worried about the VRAM – VRM temperature which has no temperature sensor.

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