Mixing metals...

[vulcZ]

I know it's never recommended, but I mostly hear it's really bad to mix aluminum and copper. I want to buy a CPU block (Apogee XT) and it's made of copper but my EK VGA block is nickel-plated copper. Do you guys think this will pose any kind of problem?

[Holst]

This wont cause any problems at all.

[ml2517]

I know it's never recommended, but I mostly hear it's really bad to mix aluminum and copper. I want to buy a CPU block (Apogee XT) and it's made of copper but my EK VGA block is nickel-plated copper. Do you guys think this will pose any kind of problem?

Agreed.. No issues. I've been running both of these components for about a year with no problems.

[NaeKuh]

if you have too much gold, the federal mint might crack down on ya for the illegal transport of rare metals. :P

But in seriousiness, when we say mixing metals, we mean metals which can have galvanic reactions to each other.

Typically Alu + copper.

We tell everyone to watch out for steel as well.
It the steel is of poor quality, it will rust instead of corode and thats nasty as it is.

[Sparky]

Copper, brass, nickel, stainless steel, silver, and gold are all OK.

Bad ones to mix with the above are aluminum and regular steel.