Quote Originally Posted by IanY View Post
Once again, I'm not the one who painted any blocks. I could care less if the blocks were doo doo brown and lime green or hot fuschia. I'm not the one who gets all hyped up about how computers look and take pics to proudly acclaim how cooling looking my computer is. It could be built inside a toilet bowl and I will gladly use it if it performs at its best. You even went as far to put EK barbs into your GTX to match your other EK blocks lol

Gabe already said that he won't make blocks with acrylic tops. Why he doesn't like Delrin is his decision. I could care less if it is made of cardboard, as long as its the top performing block. For a while it was the best block. And honestly, the price differential between it and teh FuZion has been inconsequential.. a mere $10.. or even if its $30, I could care less. If someone doesn't want to fork over the extra money, its not my business. My heart won't bleed if someone can't fork over that extra $10, because if money is that tight, then precious cash should not be expended on something as silly as water cooling for a computer.

Understand the electrical circuit schematics behind your motherboard? Understand the die structure and electronic connections in your cpu dies? Yet, you use your motherboard and cpu!

I don't have the inclination to go find out the chemical properties in Hydrx. I am told that the GTX works best when its used with Hydrx, then why wouldn't I use it ? If D-Tek tells me that their special coolant (not dye) works well with the FuZion, you can bet your ass that I will use it religiously. Otherwise, I wouldn't use a FuZion.
Newsflash for you IanY, this thread isn't about mine and your tastes in Watercooling, so please kindly get back onto topic about the GTX and corrosion. Have I ripped into you for wanting to TEC cool your stock PC? No, so kindly take your jibes elsewhere. You're acting like a child who can't deduct a counter argument and has resulted to little jibes.

We all know you like to buy into your brands, and call everyone else flocks of sheep - you don't need to keep reminding us.

I don't put aesthetics over performance, I put performance whilst still looking good:

  • Painted MIPS blocks, no where near threads or the water channel - so no decrease in performance? Not that mosfets require a lot.
  • EK barbs? So what? You're telling me that has decrease performance from other barbs? FWIW - I don't use any EK barbs either, they've been changed.


In fact, nothing in that avatar matches my current setup.

The aluminium in the GTX was purely for aesthetics, the block could have been bowed with a tough plastic. The aluminium was for dyeing and sanding to match the engine cover look.

Yeah it's plated, but it's not 100% infallible is it, else we wouldn't be seeing these problems. As far as I can see, you put Aluminium in your loop, you then have to add additive and decrease coolant performance.

Why not, just not put any aluminium in your loop and run water + anti-algae.