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[AfZ]PiMp J · 06-13-2008, 05:56 PM

admittedly i didn't read the whole collection of posts, but if you want to compare computers to cars with respect to watercooling (and why not, they're about the same) there are some key points to be made:

1) aluminum will cool better than copper if you have faster heat transfer from the pipes to the radiator (more fins, more passes in the radiator, more air flowing over the radiator)

2) mixing of metals should not matter. water in a car (in this next example a high performance car) can pass through an aluminum radiator, an iron block, and aluminum heads (for the sake of this example, even a copper radiator), without fungi growing. the most likely cause of your growth is the light.

3) water wetter. it's proven to work in cars to reduce temperatures, helping with heat transfer even more than a 100 percent water "mix"

06-13-2008, 05:56 PM	#21
[AfZ]PiMp J Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Fl Posts: 29	Re: Please HELP admittedly i didn't read the whole collection of posts, but if you want to compare computers to cars with respect to watercooling (and why not, they're about the same) there are some key points to be made: 1) aluminum will cool better than copper if you have faster heat transfer from the pipes to the radiator (more fins, more passes in the radiator, more air flowing over the radiator) 2) mixing of metals should not matter. water in a car (in this next example a high performance car) can pass through an aluminum radiator, an iron block, and aluminum heads (for the sake of this example, even a copper radiator), without fungi growing. the most likely cause of your growth is the light. 3) water wetter. it's proven to work in cars to reduce temperatures, helping with heat transfer even more than a 100 percent water "mix"