Nickel plated copper+ copper radiator

[Letgomyleghoe]

Are nickel plated copper CPU and GPU block's okay to use with copper radiators? 

I'm looking to do some custom water cooling and wasn't sure if this would cause corrosion problems

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yes, that's fine. What you don't want to mix is copper/nickel plated copper with aluminium. 

[Letgomyleghoe]

12 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yes, that's fine. What you don't want to mix is copper/nickel plated copper with aluminium. 

Okay, thankyou

[SolarNova]

9 hours ago, scuff gang said:

Okay, thankyou

Yes BUT use a corrosion inhibitor.

 

Nickel plating can eventually fail if u dont use an inhibitor. It takes a long while, but it will eventual go, this is from personal experience.

 

I ran a loop for 5 years on just distilled water and biocide. No anti corrosive. The loop stayed clear and clean and worked perfectly fine the entire time BUT when i eventually pulled apart the block during a upgrade i found both the GPU and CPU blocks that were Nickel plated had corroded, the plating had failed.

 

I still use the CPU block and have a new GPU and plated GPU block, but i now use a corrosion inhibitor as well as the biocide with straight distilled.

 

Premixes usually have inhibitor in them.

 

[Letgomyleghoe]

3 hours ago, SolarNova said:

Yes BUT use a corrosion inhibitor.

 

Nickel plating can eventually fail if u dont use an inhibitor. It takes a long while, but it will eventual go, this is from personal experience.

 

I ran a loop for 5 years on just distilled water and biocide. No anti corrosive. The loop stayed clear and clean and worked perfectly fine the entire time BUT when i eventually pulled apart the block during a upgrade i found both the GPU and CPU blocks that were Nickel plated had corroded, the plating had failed.

 

I still use the CPU block and have a new GPU and plated GPU block, but i now use a corrosion inhibitor as well as the biocide with straight distilled.

 

Premixes usually have inhibitor in them.

 

im running copper radiators, just wanted to make sure that the nickel wouldnt cause corrosion.