Huge EVGA Fail!!!! GTX 295 Hydro "copper" mixes ALU and CU in the same BLOCK!

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Don't know what's wrong with metal mixture in a loop. Had loops working for over 2 years with blocks from Innovatek in Aluminum and EK in Copper and never ever had a single spot of corrosion. It's all in the cooling fluid...

Anyway, back on topic... That product should have never been advertised as Hydro Copper, it's fooling the consumer and we all know Copper is a better heat conductor and works better (and is more expensive as well) than Aluminum. Looks like a fail to me.

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You can mix metals just fine as long as you don't as you you use proper cooling fluid/additives. I mean every other car cooling system mixes metals, and they seem to be doing well...
Lots of people are also running Innovatek and Aqua Computer alu stuff with copper blocks and it works just fine (as long as they use proper additives of course).
I'm not saying that alu is good, but it's definitely usable in a WC setup.

Selling that block as Hydro Copper is deliberately misleading customers though, they should have never done that. Also, if someone sells alu blocks they should provide sufficient information on what corrosion protection should be used, which EVGA seems to not be doing considering the look of the block in the pics

for some reason, i almost kind of doubt this. it is fud, and eVGA machines their own waterblocks last time i checked. they've always machined them out of copper and delrin, all of them having the same identical design with the E's for a fin matrix; why would they so suddenly change from that? their hydrocopper cards have always been very expensive, i haven't ever seen eVGA get cheap on us. this product isn't even listed on their website yet, don't they usually have pre-order.
something just seems fishy. we'll see though when the products released.

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EVGA has been selling video cards with Innovatek blocks for years in Europe. Considering this there's no reason to doubt this. Also Fud is not really known for faking reviews, they may often provide dubious rumors that turn out to be wrong, but they don't fake reviews.