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

[Nickel020]

Mixed metals are definitely not "usable", unless you like gambling with your hardware, and especially not when there are Cu variants available for more or less the same price.

How do you explain that people have been running mixed metal loops for years with no problems?
Why do the radiators and other parts of the cooling system in cars work for dozens of years if corrosion is such a problem?

Because of the "don't mix metals" hysteria on XS you don't find many people doing it here, but many German companies have been selling alu stuff for like 10 years now. How do you explain that these companies still exist if their products are not usable as you claim?

Sorry, but you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

PS: I'm not defending EVGA here, this product and the way it's marketed sucks. I'm jsut saying that alu is not inherently bad. If price and performance are right then there's no reason not to use alu with a good corrosion inhibitor. And this is coming from someone whose Swiftech Apogee GTX top suffers from corrosion (no inhibitor used though, I know what to do next time...).