EKWB Fluid Gaming A240 Liquid Cooling Kit Review

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What does a premium copper-only liquid cooling company do for its next trick? Use aluminum.

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[Malik 722]

what about the regular all-in-one solutions from the other brands which use cooper plate for heat transfer are they safe.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Yes they are safe. They just have to be made with all copper parts. Heck, you could make one with silver for all the metal parts and it would be "safe," but it would be a waste of money.

 

[lightofhonor]

I have the A240R for Vega cards. Works great, though can't cool both if both are OC and full load.

 

[Lutfij]

It might be a cheaper alternative to get your feet wet for custom level watercooling but expansion options can and will be limited since not everyone makes aluminum waterblocks for every card on the market. Even EKWB have shut down their thinkcell programme since they couldn't keep track of the immense level of suggestions for various request/demands with a vast sea of SKU's for CPU's, motherboard's chipsets as well as monoblocks and lastly GPU's.

FYI, corrosion inhibitors only slow down the process of galvanic corrosion or the liquid inside an AIO aren't actually water based but a special fluid concocted at Asetek's factory.

 

[Olle P]

The initial part about galvanic corrosion is somewhat flawed:
1. To get galvanic corrosion there must be a direct metallic path between the two different metals in contact with the fluid. An aluminium radiator paired with a copper water block is no problem unless they're in direct electrical contact through the mountings.
2. Galvanic corrosion is typically a very slow process. The only clear example of galvanic corrosion I've been able to find in water cooling is the CPU block provided with Zalman Reserator 1. It had a gold plated base mated to an aluminium housing, doubling the galvanic potential compared to copper.

Over the last few months I've been running a test to see the effects of galvanic corrosion. A piece of aluminium and a piece of brass in a plastic cup with mineral water (the top notch local tap water). The metal pieces are connected by a wire and I add more water every few days due to evaporation.
This far there's absolutely no sign of corrosion!
It would be horrible to use in a cooling loop though, because there's a lot of calcium being produced that would clog any cooling block. In fact: Most of the pictures found of what users seem to think is the result of galvanic corrosion in water cooling seems to be other substances (from the fluid) causing deposits.