Is corrosion that big of a problem with EK nickel blocks?

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rjolin01

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ok, I just got 3x ek fc-470 waterblocks for my tri-sli setup. They are the nickel blocks. Ek now has a stop sell on the nickel blocks due to issues with mix loops causing flaking apparently. I believe tho that as long as I use a coolant like such... http://www.performance-pcs.com/cata..._info&cPath=59_381_707&products_id=31060....I should be ok from corrosion. Thing is that I also have a silver coil I am wondering if I should use. The rasa cpu block I got is copper, and the ek nb/sb block is electro copper and the 3 gpu blocks are nickel. will the silver add to the chance of corrsion? I could see if I was using straight distilled water or some other coolant but as this coolant suppose to be for multi-material loops I should be ok right?

Here is one of the statements released by EK... http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index....icleid=83&cntnt01origid=17&cntnt01returnid=17
 
It's an issue because of the shitty plating job, otherwise distilled + silver coil would not be a problem at all (like with all other vendor plated blocks).
 
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