Bad Idea?

[GSXR]

First I want to say sorry if this is the wrong section, also my name is Kaiser and I've just purchased a GTX 670 FTW 2GB for £35 that has an Artic cooler GTX680 Waterblock on it and I'm curious if I could take a H45 AIO cooler as the pump is on the Radiator and take the fittings from the CPU block and connect them to the Waterblock using fittings as I am on an extremely small budget, would it even work? would I be better off selling the waterblock? any suggestions?

[RollinLower]

yeah that should work, the only thing you;re doing here is changing out a CPU waerblock for a GPU waterblock.

 

be carefull that the tubing fits the barbs on your waterblock tough.

[GSXR]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

yeah that should work, the only thing you;re doing here is changing out a CPU waerblock for a GPU waterblock.

 

be carefull that the tubing fits the barbs on your waterblock tough.

I honestly hope so, I've done some research and they both seem to be 1/4 or at least I hope 

[jaslion]

Just now, GSXR said:

I honestly hope so, I've done some research and they both seem to be 1/4 or at least I hope 

Any reason you chose this? Not a good card anymore. You can always get adapter pieces if the tubes don't fit.

[GSXR]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Any reason you chose this? Not a good card anymore. You can always get adapter pieces if the tubes don't fit.

Uhhh budget reasons It's all I could find for my price range which was £35 the same price I paid for my GT 730... So I'd say that's still a big upgrade for me personally 

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Any reason you chose this? Not a good card anymore. You can always get adapter pieces if the tubes don't fit.

probably because it was 35 bucks. OP mentioned he was on a very tight budget.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, GSXR said:

Uhhh budget reasons It's all I could find for my price range which was £35 the same price I paid for my GT 730... So I'd say that's still a big upgrade for me personally 

Fair enough.

[GSXR]

Another concern of mine is if it'll even fit inside of my Prebuilt Dell 435mt chassis, if not I'll just have to get out a dremel 

[RollinLower]

Just now, GSXR said:

Another concern of mine is if it'll even fit inside of my Prebuilt Dell 435mt chassis, if not I'll just have to get out a dremel 

that's gonna be a tight fit.

a dremel seems like a good option. i did the same with a H50 years ago on my MSI ITX barebone.

 

 

 

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[GSXR]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

that's gonna be a tight fit.

a dremel seems like a good option. i did the same with a H50 years ago on my MSI ITX barebone.

 

 

 

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Hopefully can keep shavings away as I am too lazy to remove my motherboard... might just put something over it with a hoover turnt on 

[For Science!]

Aluminium radiator and the copper waterblock would not be my first choice of mix.

[GSXR]

1 hour ago, For Science! said:

Aluminium radiator and the copper waterblock would not be my first choice of mix.

Why not, sorry if that is such a noob question just unexperienced 

[For Science!]

Just now, GSXR said:

Why not, sorry if that is such a noob question just unexperienced 

Because of a phenomenon known as galvanic corrosion, where one metal for the lack of a better term "eats" another dissimilar metal. Aluminium and copper are dissimilar metals (as opposed to copper, nickel, and brass, which are similar). 

 

To combat this, you should, in my opinion, avoid mixing these metals together all together to begin with (i.e. get a proper copper/brass radiator). Or at the very least, have a coolant that has a very heavy dose of anti-corrosives.

 

AIO's have mixed metals (a cost saving measure) in them and are therefore destined towards failure overtime. To combat corrosion issues, they much run high concentrations of ethylene glycol, and to combat the toxicity, mix it with propylene glycol. This then has potential to "clog" the microfins over time as the glycol polymerizes to form a polyethylene glycol based jelly.

[GSXR]

1 hour ago, For Science! said:

Because of a phenomenon known as galvanic corrosion, where one metal for the lack of a better term "eats" another dissimilar metal. Aluminium and copper are dissimilar metals (as opposed to copper, nickel, and brass, which are similar). 

 

To combat this, you should, in my opinion, avoid mixing these metals together all together to begin with (i.e. get a proper copper/brass radiator). Or at the very least, have a coolant that has a very heavy dose of anti-corrosives.

 

AIO's have mixed metals (a cost saving measure) in them and are therefore destined towards failure overtime. To combat corrosion issues, they much run high concentrations of ethylene glycol, and to combat the toxicity, mix it with propylene glycol. This then has potential to "clog" the microfins over time as the glycol polymerizes to form a polyethylene glycol based jelly.

Ah I see, I would swap it but I'm in a predicament of budget and cannot afford it... hmm, I'll see if I can find any anti-corrosives coolant 

[GSXR]

By the looks of it, the H45 has a Copper block? unsure but done some research and the pump has died from corrosion on a lot of them... Might just be inevitable for me as I do not have the funds