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GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?

GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?
« on: August 12, 2010, 05:50:15 am »
I'm getting ready to water cool this board, and I was warned that past Gigabyte motherboards mixed copper and aluminum in the chipset waterblocks and/or pipes/fittings. That's a big no-no, as it creates acide that eats the other components and generally screws up the loop.

So, is the UD9 all copper (or copper and brass) in the chipset cooling part of the loop? Does water ever hit aluminum?

Thanks.

Pete

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Re: GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2010, 10:57:24 am »
No you are safe this time Gigabyte has learnt from it's mistake and used copper in it's cooling blocks. I have never heard of this "acide" that you refer to but you are correct in that a mixture of metals in a liquid environment will set up a galvanic corrosion scenario. The more base metal will transfer through the liquid medium to the more noble metal.
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Re: GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 04:32:12 pm »
Thanks. "acide" was a typo. s/b "acid". I may have been mistaken there, and it's just the corrosion you're speaking of.

Thanks again for the info :)

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Re: GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2010, 04:50:05 pm »
You're welcome buddy. I thought it was a new term I hadn't come across before ;)
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Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
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256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
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Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
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HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
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Re: GA-X58A-UD9: Water cooling the chipset: is it all copper?
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2010, 02:46:20 am »
Thanks, I was going to ask about this as well!