EK Nickel products.......

Yaka · 18 May 2011 at 18:59

not sure if anyone is aware yet but peeps with ek nickel plated products in thier loops should inspect thier setups. theres a thread on XS forums with user complaining of corrosion/rust hitting thier kit after a few months

one of the pics from the XS thread http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/689/img0154kc.jpg/

now i am very glad i didnt go for the nickel versions of the EK 580 blocks

rjk · 18 May 2011 at 19:26

been running nickel stuff since EK started doing it. never had any issues.
Nickel is superb, doesnt tarnish like bare copper and looks amazing.

there is nothing to worry about.

SeraphX · 18 May 2011 at 19:40

nickel 5850 block here running fine looking as good as it did when i bought it

mjones1 · 18 May 2011 at 19:56

It's apparently only just recently started happening on their newer batches also there is a large thread on overclock.net too.

Danfoss2011 · 18 May 2011 at 20:39

Ek & Tibbor have already stated there looking into it and running some test there end. The is an idea it's a bad batch from the platers.

I've had Nickle from EK soon as he started and on my server it's still running 2 years solid without a fuild change

zoomee · 18 May 2011 at 20:43

dude - stop with the scaremongering lol!

There's only a couple of peeps there that are complaining of it - more to the question is what the heck have they been running in their loops?

Greboth · 18 May 2011 at 20:43

Been running my loop for about 8 months with nickel cpu and gpu blocks. I haven't taken it apart but water it as clear as the day it went in so assume it's all ok in there.

I would assume its something specific like a bad batch otherwise something like this would have come up before.

Yaka · 18 May 2011 at 20:46

yeah does seem like some thing to do with the current batch, but if anyone has recently got a nickel one then it wont hurt to keep an eye on it.

JeffyB · 18 May 2011 at 20:55

Been keeping an eye on those threads and have checked my blocks and all looks well, seems to be isolated to a bad batch.

mmj_uk · 18 May 2011 at 21:14

Perhaps the silver he used was not that pure and had some other metals mixed in with it?

Surveyor · 18 May 2011 at 21:58

mmj_uk said:
Perhaps the silver he used was not that pure and had some other metals mixed in with it?

Hopefully they used nickel not silver.

Bubo · 18 May 2011 at 22:01

Most, if not all of your fittings will be nickel plated brass anyway, so its not as if nickel is a problem.

Yaka · 18 May 2011 at 23:25

most think there was problem when the nickel was coated on the blocks on the current batch, if you got yours in the past few months its best to keep an eye on. eddy is investigating it so hopefully he will get to the bottom of it soon

theron · 18 May 2011 at 23:48

wonder if there was some vineger or something left inside when flushing the rad out?

thx for the heads up anyway, was gona buy this week, guess i better hold off.

RizlaKing · 19 May 2011 at 02:13

Saw something about this and although i don't think it is a widescale problem it was one of the things that put me off the EK kit going instead for the XSPC one better safe then sorry.

Avathar77 · 19 May 2011 at 02:51

I am holding off to get a GPU block for weeks now, expecting some news from EK.

OP: NVM

rjk · 19 May 2011 at 09:04

i have contacted EK about this directly. i will let you know what feedback i get from Eddy as soon as i get a reply from him guys.

momo56 · 19 May 2011 at 10:29

Any way of telling if corrosion has occured without opening the blocks/dismantling loop ?
The water seems to be clear in the res, that good enough ?

mmj_uk · 19 May 2011 at 13:40

Surveyor said:
Hopefully they used nickel not silver.

I meant the silver the guy used in his loop to protect from algae.

dazzerd · 19 May 2011 at 18:32

Hmm interesting I opened my 480 block last week and there was rust in it. Fortunately it wasn't rust in the water channel. This block is a year old as well.