My first watercooling loop

[NotHimAgain]

Ok so i'm planning my first watercooling loop but i'm at a bit off a budge. I heard that mixing metals was bad in a custom loop. However, Ek only has copper based radiators and a nickel waterblocks for my gpu. Does the ''no mixing rule'' applies for those two metals as well or am i ok? I rather buy everything from ek so its less complicated.

 

[Lutfij]

EK use an electronless('ish) process for their blocks nickel plating and if you look through the galvanic corrosion chart you'll see that nickel and copper are very close to each other. Corrosion can and will happen inevitably but not at the same rate as aluminum and copper will be in a similar loop. That being said you should follow up on the rest of the material covered in the watrcooling sticky(located in my signature space).

On my pseudo first watercooling build I went with a mixed and matched setup and hand picked each part from a varying degree of manufacturer's but the caveat is that my components inclusive of my rad are all copper. The good thing on EK's side is that they will offer you warranty if their nickel plating chip or flake so it'd be a good idea to keep an eye on the blocks during regular maintenance runs.

How's your parts list looking so far with your watercooling project?