Another water cooling question...

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Hi again, lets get right to it..

I always here people say not to mix metals. I have just realised that my CPU block has a copper base but my compression fittings are nickel, and the adaptors I need to buy are silver plated I think.

My coolant says it is good to use with "all mixed copper, brass, steel, nickel and aluminum cooling loops."

So does this mean I can mix metals in my loop. Are you not allowed to mix metals only if you are using de-ionized water for example, instead of coolant?

By the way , my coolant is the EK-Ekoolant UV blue.

Noob question, but I want to be sure.

Thanks. :D
 
Coolants like that have an anti-corrosive agent in them so you *should* be okay I think.

Even with distilled (deionized) water you usually mix some kind of additive that has anti-corrosion/anti-microbial/UV properties.

Pako or some of the others might have more to add. I made sure all my blocks were copper and didn't use any fancy compression fittings or anything else so I didn't look into the metal issue too much after that.
 
Thanks. I bought the CPU block (I'm not cooling my GPU) before the compression fittings, and I don't really want to buy copper fittings because they would look terrible in my opinion lol.
 
When I made my system I did alot of research on what fittings I could use.

My CPU cooler is a Swiftech Apogee HD which is copper on the inside and I use koolance compression fittings which are brass plated.

They are fine with one another.
 
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I echo what GreyFox said. Should be fine.
 
Good good. Just ordered a bunch of fittings. 4 compression fittings, 2 90 degree fittings, a G1/2 to G1/4 and a G3/8 to G1/4 adaptor.
 

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