Quote Originally Posted by BMAF View Post
My father in Law was an lead engineer for Alcoa, and he built aluminum plants around the world. Before I started water cooling with the BlackOps stock north bridge block, I asked him about galvanic corrosion in the system, and mixing metals. He told me it was not something to worry about. The only time that they ever had problems with it was when they welded aluminum and copper tubing together, even then it would take years for the problem to develope. He said it was highly unlikely I'd ever see problems.
cool, thanks a lot for that info!
first i wasnt too sure, but the more i asked people who actually worked with copper and alu with watercooling equippment the more i realized that all this galvanic corrosion hysteria in the pc watercooling screne was quite overblown.

from what i was told galvanic corrosion between copper and alu and most other metals is only a serious problem when they are exposed to salt water or other highly electrical conducting liquids.

this doesnt mean mixing copper and alu is a good thing tho!
we will try to go for an all copper solution for sure!
I just want to show that there is nothing to worry about, there are some people who thing mixing copper and alu in a watercooling loop will mean the blocks will rust away and within a few months they will have holes in their blocks and radiators with water leaking out. thats def not the case