I am planning my own custom water cooling loop for 2014, and I think I will be going against everyone's advice and using an aluminum radiator. The reasons for this are that I would like to ideally mount a radiator to the top of my case, but there aren't a lot of options for radiators that will fit on the top of my case (the Antec 1200). Most of the videos and pics I've seen online of people with radiators mounted to the top of their Antec 1200 cases had to do at least some slight modding, like take off the top of their case, take out the top intake fan, and drill some holes. I don't want to do any modding to my case if I can avoid it. So I'm looking at this radiator, made by Antec specifically to be mounted into the top of my case:
http://store.antec.com/Product/acces...5-75210-7.aspx
To begin with, I'm just going to have a simple loop with a radiator, CPU block (EK Supremacy or XSPC Raystorm), and drive bay pump/res (looking at Swiftech Maelstrom). When Intel's 14nm processors come out I will get a Maximus Formula board and hook that up the loop as well, and maybe add another radiator (maybe Alphacool ST30 or XSPC EX120) mounted onto the rear exhaust fans in a pull-only configuration. Maybe even a GPU block when I get a new graphics card, if I have enough radiators for that.
So, back to the main point, I am going to start out with just the CPU block, pump/res, and Antec Aluminum radiator for a while to make sure my install goes ok and everything is working. I am concerned about galvanic corrosion due to the presence of Aluminum and Copper in the same loop, but I've been looking at fluids with anti-corrosive properties. Here are some of the coolants I've been looking at:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/feonecoflpub.html
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/thec6noncoco1.html
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=4372
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=37153
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/swhypm2coh.html
Has anyone used a loop with copper and aluminum so they can verify which fluids are safe for that condition? How effective are those so called "corrosion inhibitors", really?
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