Galvanic Corrosion

[Proxxima]

How long does it take to really affect to stop cooling.
So the situation would be like this :

I would use an EK Fluid Gaming A240 water cooling kit. (https://www.ekfluidgaming.com/ek-kit-a240) It is full on aluminium.

But I would also like to water cool my GPU with it on a budget. So I either use a universal water block for the GPU because I am using a 1070 Mini an there are no blocks for it.

The other option to not even have any galvanic corrosion is to use a universal gpu water block out of aluminium but I havent been able to find any block of that sort.
The main reason for this is because I dont have a 450€ budget. The aluminium kit would be perfect its 170€ and for a copper gpu block it would be another idk 30-50€ and i would be done for some time i guess but someday i need to throw most of the stuff away because of galvanic corrosion so yeah. 

Mainly the 2 question out of this are :

How long does it take to really affect to stop cooling?

and

Are there any universal water blocks for my 1070 mini but with aluminium?
 

[samcool55]

Do NOT mix the ek kit with non-aluminium parts. Doesn't matter what you put in the water, that's a BAD idea and it will corrode very quickly and ruin everything, we are talking days or weeks here, not months.

 

The way I look at custom loops is as follows: do it properly, or don't do it at all.

Also, what is the reason you want a custom loop? That 1070 isn't exactly a high-end card anymore (still decent tho) so watercooling it looks to me like a waste of money.

[SolarNova]

18 minutes ago, Proxxima said:

How long does it take to really affect to stop cooling.
So the situation would be like this :

I would use an EK Fluid Gaming A240 water cooling kit. (https://www.ekfluidgaming.com/ek-kit-a240) It is full on aluminium.

But I would also like to water cool my GPU with it on a budget. So I either use a universal water block for the GPU because I am using a 1070 Mini an there are no blocks for it.

The other option to not even have any galvanic corrosion is to use a universal gpu water block out of aluminium but I havent been able to find any block of that sort.
The main reason for this is because I dont have a 450€ budget. The aluminium kit would be perfect its 170€ and for a copper gpu block it would be another idk 30-50€ and i would be done for some time i guess but someday i need to throw most of the stuff away because of galvanic corrosion so yeah. 

Mainly the 2 question out of this are :

How long does it take to really affect to stop cooling?

and

Are there any universal water blocks for my 1070 mini but with aluminium?
 

EKWB A240G is kit that includes a Nvidia waterblock. Check see if ur card is compatable

 

https://www.ekfluidgaming.com/ek-kit-a240g

[Proxxima]

1 minute ago, SolarNova said:

EKWB A240G is kit that includes a Nvidia reference waterblock.

 

https://www.ekfluidgaming.com/ek-kit-a240g

Doesnt fit since I am using a Zotac 1070 mini. Otherwise i would have bought it already

[SolarNova]

13 minutes ago, Proxxima said:

Doesnt fit since I am using a Zotac 1070 mini. Otherwise i would have bought it already

Ah ok in that case consider a Bykski or Barrow CPU+GPU kit from aliexpress. They are usually pritty cheap about $250-300.

 

Examples:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32899782878.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.16727a1eiwdibg&algo_pvid=e76a9e97-4b97-4054-b05c-05d52b69bc51&algo_expid=e76a9e97-4b97-4054-b05c-05d52b69bc51-0&btsid=b5962850-c60b-40bb-9be4-034cbe61054e&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0%2Csearchweb201602_10%2Csearchweb201603_53

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32866793876.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000014.10.a921efb2jVZl0M&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.13338.136874.000000000000000&scm_id=1007.13338.136874.000000000000000&scm-url=1007.13338.136874.000000000000000&pvid=657aa2d1-065b-4e40-9280-a41a586a99e6

[BigBlackRat]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5pcs-40-40-12mm-Aluminum-Water-Cooling-Block-for-CPU-Graphics-Radiator-Heatsink/181021321850?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D57475%26meid%3Dc7a167e22e524353a6a925f72913e236%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D331457899151%26itm%3D181021321850%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 

 

Al gpu blocks... 

[SolarNova]

14 hours ago, BigBlackRat said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5pcs-40-40-12mm-Aluminum-Water-Cooling-Block-for-CPU-Graphics-Radiator-Heatsink/181021321850?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D57475%26meid%3Dc7a167e22e524353a6a925f72913e236%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D331457899151%26itm%3D181021321850%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 

 

Al gpu blocks... 

Those things are low performance blocks for basic heat transfer, they dont have microfins, just a simply milled channel. Do not recommend using them for this use case.

[BigBlackRat]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZALMAN-VGA-WATER-BLOCK-ZM-GWB3/254173604838?hash=item3b2ded6be6:g:eqoAAOSwBBRceDuI

 

Another one, Al blocks are rare.