Will a silver killcoil disintegrate ?

[xtreeme]

Just thinking ; when a killcoil gets worned/old what will happen ? Will it start to fall apart and will small parts start to wander around in the system ?

With this in mind - and not beeing sure what will happen when a killcoil gets old - might it be wise to put the coil at the CPU cooler intake - so when (if?) the coil start to disintegrate one will start to get poorer cooling since the pin array will get partly blocked. Might be better than if parts of the killcoil jam the cooling pump - or maybe even block channels in the radiator ????

What do you guys think ????

[Spawn-Inc]

i would think it would dissolve evenly and basically start to disappear. but at that it would take several life times.

[Bobnova]

It, like most anything, will eventually disolve in water. Being metal it will also slowly plate itself on the rest of the metal. However, it will take a very, very long time to do either one if you don't have aluminum in the loop (you shouldn't).

[Boulard83]

+1 above.

With proper metal in the loop, no galvanic corrosion, youll be fine for age !

[deadlysyn]

+1 above.

With proper metal in the loop, no galvanic corrosion, youll be fine for age !

And on top of that, from what I have read, you can run straight distilled water with no additives, if you are using silver in your loop as well.

[Bobnova]

Yup, that's the best part :D

[Boulard83]

Distilled + PTnuke FTW ;)

[Jeffery_Paul]

I run a silver kill coil with a drop of PTNUKE PHN (just for good measure)

I did a fair bit of research before building my loop and one of the things I learnt was that a silver kill coil will outlast your loop. Some people put them in the tubing but I just leave mine in the res. It isn't going to disolve and break apart, if anything it will just lose molecules from its surface evenly over a really really long time and you won't visually see it.

Don't stress on that count