Quick corrosion qoestion

soundesciple · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:06

Im thinking of ordering this block for my 6950
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/WC-110-EK_400.jpg

but My cpu block is The HEATKILLER CPU Rev3.0 LT Material: Electrolyte copper, POM, stainless steel

Q... would these two blocks in the same loop cause corrosion?

Jokester · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:12

soundesciple · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:22

k thanks for that.

Cleeecooo · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:37

basically, everything plays nice with everything... except aluminium, which can only really go by itself

Jokester · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:39

Nothing particularly wrong with aluminium, just need to know how to prevent any galvanic corrosion from occuring.

Cleeecooo · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:42

Jokester said:
Nothing particularly wrong with aluminium, just need to know how to prevent any galvanic corrosion from occuring.

How?

Biocide?

Jokester · 1 Dec 2011 at 21:43

Cleeecooo said:
How?

Biocide?

Can either use corrosion inhibitor or you can make sure it's isolated from any copper/nickel.

Cleeecooo · 1 Dec 2011 at 22:14

Jokester said:
Can either use corrosion inhibitor or you can make sure it's isolated from any copper/nickel.

Keep meaning to ask you this, how exactly is this done?

Jokester · 1 Dec 2011 at 22:23

Cleeecooo said:
Keep meaning to ask you this, how exactly is this done?

Just make sure that there's no electrical connection between the two, for example, the holes round CPUs for mounting coolers are normally isolated at least they are on Intel boards, so you can say used an aluminium block on a CPU, and copper elsewhere with no worries at all.

Nvidia GPUs though have grounded circles round the mounting holes so a block could be connected to other items via that route.