My loop has a copper top on it, never actually had the Aluminium top as part of a loop
Yes, but you've emailed Gabe for his correspondence to someone else's top in the past.
I would not say using Glycol is a stupid thing, in fact - I think using Glycol in a water cooling loop when there really isn't any need to is stupid.
After all, there are no aluminium parts that have a valid reason to be in our loops. Radiators are best when copper/brass, there are acrylic/delrin reservoirs that do the exact same job as the XSPC aluminium tubes and most blocks are made from copper and some form of plastic.
So surely if the plating on the GTX top is as good as Gabe touted, then Glycol based additives shouldn't have to be used?
Glycol worsens the thermal transfer of water after all
Again, if this isn't corrosion then why would you say it's stupid that he didn't run a Glycol based additive? If it isn't corrosion and it's a deposit from a radiator or other source then why aren't the users who've posted pictures of the GTX not having the same crap dumped into their NB/GPU blocks or anything else in the loop for that matter.
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