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Long Haired Git · 01-27-2006, 12:26 AM

Performance wise the impact of air flow and coolant flow will make material choice irrelevant for you.
The "copper" radiator is, of course, brass from the perspective of galvanic corrosion: the end tanks and down tubes are brass. Brass is much more "inert" than aluminium, and whilst the end tanks are plastic the tubes are aluminium in most/all aluminium radiators, and that's a LOT more reactive.

Swap it.

01-27-2006, 12:26 AM	#7
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	Re: Copper vs. Alu? Performance wise the impact of air flow and coolant flow will make material choice irrelevant for you. The "copper" radiator is, of course, brass from the perspective of galvanic corrosion: the end tanks and down tubes are brass. Brass is much more "inert" than aluminium, and whilst the end tanks are plastic the tubes are aluminium in most/all aluminium radiators, and that's a LOT more reactive. Swap it. __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB)