Rust on graphicscard

[GustlMollath]

I just did my first watercooling loop and while filling it i noticed the first time i started the pump that my radiator was leaking

a bit of water dropped onto my graphicscard (the water is ekwb ek-ekoolant evo)

 

do i have to worry about rust?

i dried it immediatly and let it rest now for at least 24h

 

 

[blu4]

nope, no rust will be there!

[ELSknutson]

If you dryed it up then no.

[Morgan MLGman]

How can aluminum get rusty? Dude. Aluminum doesn't rust. GPU heatsinks are usually aluminum afaik.

[Speshul_]

Should be right if you dried it

[derick90]

3 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

How can aluminum get rusty? Dude. Aluminum doesn't rust. GPU heatsinks are usually aluminum afaik.

Challenge accepted.

 

On topic: You're fine. If everything is working well, then no worries. 

[GustlMollath]

4 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

How can aluminum get rusty? Dude. Aluminum doesn't rust. GPU heatsinks are usually aluminum afaik.

it was not on the aluminum

the water dropped onto the pcb

[derick90]

3 minutes ago, GustlMollath said:

it was not on the aluminum

the water dropped onto the pcb

As stated, as long as you dried it off prior to powering the system on, you'll be alright. 

[GustlMollath]

4 minutes ago, derick90 said:

As stated, as long as you dried it off prior to powering the system on, you'll be alright. 

okay thanks

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

How can aluminum get rusty? Dude. Aluminum doesn't rust. GPU heatsinks are usually aluminum afaik.

Aluminium DOES rust. It is even VERY corrosive. (rusts very quickly) Ever heard of thermite (welding)? That's rust to the max...

 

However... The top layer of aluminium WILL rust, creating a top layer of oxidized aluminium. This layer or film, is a protection layer. The aluminium under this layer "will not rust". And about the layer of oxidized aluminium... That's why you have to polish aluminium that often.

[derick90]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Aluminium DOES rust. It is even VERY corrosive. (rusts very quickly) Ever heard of thermite (welding)? That's rust to the max...

 

However... The top layer of aluminium WILL rust, creating a top layer of oxidized aluminium. This layer or film, is a protection layer. The aluminium under this layer "will not rust". And about the layer of oxidized aluminium... That's why you have to polish aluminium that often.

(Similar to patina on copper) But it doesnt oxidize as though iron/steel would. 

[Guest]

Yep... Burning iron doesn't get the same results as thermite...

 

 

[derick90]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Yep... Burning iron doesn't get the same results as thermite...

 

 

If you're taking thermite to a PC, you have more issues than being concerned with rust, jus sayin. And i believe the issue was with water, not welding lol in which aluminum comes out the victor in any scenario. 

[Morgan MLGman]

25 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Aluminium DOES rust. It is even VERY corrosive. (rusts very quickly) Ever heard of thermite (welding)? That's rust to the max...

 

However... The top layer of aluminium WILL rust, creating a top layer of oxidized aluminium. This layer or film, is a protection layer. The aluminium under this layer "will not rust". And about the layer of oxidized aluminium... That's why you have to polish aluminium that often.

Aluminum does not rust. It corrodes, but does not rust. Google this.

[Guest]

Fact remains that aluminium can and will rust. Just up to a certain depth.

[GustlMollath]

5 minutes ago, derick90 said:

If you're taking thermite to a PC, you have more issues than being concerned with rust, jus sayin. And i believe the issue was with water, not welding lol in which aluminum comes out the victor in any scenario. 

yeah the issue was with the premix from ekwb onto the pcb of one of my graphicscards

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Aluminum does not rust. It corrodes, but does not rust. Google this.

http://metals.about.com/od/Corrosion/a/What-Is-Corrosion.htm

 

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/aluminum511.html

 

Quote of second link, found @ g00gle:

"But the fact is that pure aluminum reacts so readily with water that, according to the laws of chemistry, the aluminum shell of an airplane should actually dissolve in the rain. "

 

Corrosion is the interaction between a metal, and some other material, oxygen in the air being "some other material". Aluminium will react with oxygen, and if the temperature is high enough, and there is enough oxygen, you will get a huge ball of fire melting through almost anything. If you make a statement like that where I know you are wrong, please send me at least some kind of bogus/questionable link. (and if I made a typ0, at which you call me out on... You know what I tryed to say)

[Morgan MLGman]

7 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

http://metals.about.com/od/Corrosion/a/What-Is-Corrosion.htm

 

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/aluminum511.html

 

Quote of second link, found @ g00gle:

"But the fact is that pure aluminum reacts so readily with water that, according to the laws of chemistry, the aluminum shell of an airplane should actually dissolve in the rain. "

 

Corrosion is the interaction between a metal, and some other material, oxygen in the air being "some other material". Aluminium will react with oxygen, and if the temperature is high enough, and there is enough oxygen, you will get a huge ball of fire melting through almost anything. If you make a statement like that where I know you are wrong, please send me at least some kind of bogus/questionable link. (and if I made a typ0, at which you call me out on... You know what I tryed to say)

You know... I'm not a physicist, but I'm pretty good at using Google. 5 seconds-long search concluded my research in the field and confirmed what I already knew.

Here are first three hits:

[B NEGATIVE]

22 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Fact remains that aluminium can and will rust. Just up to a certain depth.

Not true.

 

Aluminuim does not contain iron,therefore cannot rust. Rust is Ferric Oxide,a byproduct of corrosion with ferrous metals,of which Aluminuim is not a part of.

Also,Alu is not corrosive,it reacts readily with oxygen but this does not make it a corrosive.

 

 

Please,read up on this before commenting.

[derick90]

Who the hell needs college when you have this... /thread

[Guest]

I would consider this a language barrier. Word games. 95% of the people would call a corroded copper pipe, a rusty copper pipe. 4% would call it dirty, and 1% would call it a corroded copper pipe. Same goes for aluminium, with the side note that most people don't know about the corrosion process of aluminium.

[derick90]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I would consider this a language barrier. Word games. 95% of the people would call a corroded copper pipe, a rusty copper pipe. 4% would call it dirty, and 1% would call it a corroded copper pipe. Same goes for aluminium, with the side note that most people don't know about the corrosion process of aluminium.

Misnomers don't count. But no, most people would call it corroded. Never even heard of a "rusty copper pipe/rusty aluminum.

[Guest]

>>> I would consider this a language barrier

[B NEGATIVE]

On 28/06/2016 at 1:56 PM, Dutch-stoner said:

I would consider this a language barrier. Word games. 95% of the people would call a corroded copper pipe, a rusty copper pipe. 4% would call it dirty, and 1% would call it a corroded copper pipe. Same goes for aluminium, with the side note that most people don't know about the corrosion process of aluminium.

I would consider this you trying to swerve out of being wrong.

 

Take it like a man ffs and learn from it.