ASRock Aqua Aluminium MoBo

JButlerUK · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:29

Hi all.

Just curious, should I use a copper rad with this Aluminium mobo?

No firm information on the suppliers website.

I'm thinking not.

JButlerUK · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:35

Saying that I'm getting confused, it says the cooling block is all copper, its the covers that are aluminium.

Fatpizza · 25 Mar 2020 at 08:23

The aluminium is only for the the aesthetics. Anywhere that touches liquid is nickel/copper.

orbitalwalsh · 26 Mar 2020 at 07:14

hoping its not a copper block with aluminum top as thats just as bad as asetek clc units with copper coldplate and alumin rad =/

even if its copper cold plate and copper top with aluminum plate on top of that - still will be reactive ..... why you have rubber gaskets to separate metals normally .

b00merang69 · 26 Mar 2020 at 07:19

Get some silver in there to as a sacrificial anode.

Mcnumpty2323 · 26 Mar 2020 at 07:28

Could be the copper and aluminium parts are separated by plastic?
Can't see such an extortionately priced motherboard making you use an aluminium radiator
Just wouldn't make sense to me

Fatpizza · 26 Mar 2020 at 08:47

orbitalwalsh said:
hoping its not a copper block with aluminum top as thats just as bad as asetek clc units with copper coldplate and alumin rad =/

even if its copper cold plate and copper top with aluminum plate on top of that - still will be reactive ..... why you have rubber gaskets to separate metals normally .

It's not even remotely the same. With an Asetek CLC the liguid touches both the coldplate and the radiator. In the aqua it only touches the coldplate plus the clear arylic cover.

JButlerUK · 28 Mar 2020 at 11:11

Its Copper with nickel plate.

JButlerUK · 28 Mar 2020 at 11:16

Ok, it completed a 3D mark run with +100 core voltage and 110% power limit, but it failed a benchmark.

With the new Turing architecture, should I lower the Core voltage to seek stability? Its all rather new.