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The original was posted on /r/watercooling by /u/br3akaway on 2023-08-25 01:43:19+00:00.

As the title states, I am assisting my friend in assembling a new pc to upgrade from his old one, and he wanted to go all out for a custom loop. So he acquires a Zotac ArcticStorm 3090 first and foremost as any logical person would, the GPU is the most difficult to find, and finding something that you’re looking for within your price range means “buy it now”. So here we are with this thing, and I find out that the eloquently worded product description misleads you away from believing this GPU block is an aluminum block, of which it most certainly is based on what I have found.

This leads to my next question, what the $@$% do I do now? I can’t find an aluminum safe loop pump anywhere online, and the CPU blocks that are aluminum look equally sketchy. Why in the world would Zotac make an aluminum block? Do any of you have suggestions for where to find quality aluminum loop parts?

I know that aluminum is suboptimal for cooling compared to copper, I am already rather put out that it is the way it is. I don’t need anyone to preach the copper gospel to me because I already know it.