Copper Vs Aluminum Radiator?

[ningjia416]

Copper or Aluminum Radiator. Which you choose and why?

[ImBleu]

Tom"ay"to - Tom"ah"to.

 

I find no difference personally and I just go with whatever the particular cooler I'm interested in has.

[Scouten]

copper or brass conduct heat better then aluminium but the latter will disperse it better. just refrain from mixing metals throughout your loops

[JoshM]

From what i heard its better to run all your parts using the same metals (as much as possible). Whether its 100% true idk

[Joshua Ondangan]

well haven't seen a aluminum radiator (the pipes inside) for a long time and the ones I've ever seen before were custom made when there were no water cooling stuff you can just buy and people were using aquarium stuff and other stuff which I don't know about pretty much just knew someone older who does crazy stuff on his pc back then.

[Thecrazyswede]

 just refrain from mixing metals throughout your loops

 

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All copper rads will be more expensive but also preform better.

[Maxwit44]

Copper or Aluminum Radiator. Which you choose and why?

 

Copper, although it is a softer metal, it will not corrode as easy.

 

Copper and aluminum will eat at each other in a loop, you'll spring a leak some where. Stick with the copper ones, since most, if not all CPU/GPU blocks are copper based.

[ObscureMammal]

 

Copper or Aluminum Radiator. Which you choose and why?

 

 

There is much debate over whether a copper or an aluminum radiator will cool better. There are pros and cons to each material. It has been scientifically proven that copper actually transfers heat better than aluminum. But it's more of an personal preference.

[DirkW]

Copper for the internals (anything touching water) - but brass is also ok. For just the fins or the outer casing or so (basically anything that does not touch the water) material doesn't matter as much, so aluminium is fine there as well.

[Savant]

Copper, they last longer and are just all around better.

 

They are also more pricey though.

[ningjia416]

Cool, thanks for inputs.

[Zniff]

copper is better than aluminium, but still if you cant maximize surface area of the radiator than an aluminium radiator it wont be better at all

[alyen]

Copper is best, but aluminum will work. Vehicles and AIOs use mix metals with a liquid to help slow the reaction. For computer the performance difference between aluminum and may not make too much of a difference for some people if you factor in static pressure, fan RPM, noise and length of time. If you were trying for most silent options then I would go with copper radiators.

 

It's really up to you decide when consider the cost and why you would getting into water cooling.