When I took out my silver gpu block it had no noticable change in colour. I had been using it for a month or two.
Cathar as silver is a lot more expensive than copper, and that the acctual cooling area in your block is ~30mm2 at most? You could do what I intend to reduce the cost some what.
My dad has made the silver into 20mm squares 8mm thick and they are accuratly made. We intend of fitting the silver into accuratly made copper blocks so that we get the advantage of silver, but without the cost. If this could be accuratly done on the scale you intend without problems of the jets/ cups not lining up, I think it would be a good idea and make silver blocks more affordable. They just wont look as shiny - silver is very easy to get a very nice shine.
Silver will perform better but would depend a lot on the deisgn to take advantage of it, I look forward to any test results from this new block in both materials.
some people might still want 100% silver bases though.
Copper tops would be nice, (none of this annodised alu crap
), but plastic may be best for your design. I recommend non brittle plastics like polyethelene instead of accrylic, never used poly carb though.
XS is a nicer name than XXX-SS
