Magnets in a loop?

[blueonblack]

Here I am again, O Gurus of All Things Watercooled. Anyone see a problem with nickel-plated neodymium magnets inside a water loop? Secured, of course, not floating about. Nickel's not too far from copper on the galvanic scale and I'm only considering some small magnets, 1/2" x 1/8" x 1/16" three of them. As long as they don't come loose and find their way into a pump or a block I should be fine, no?

Some of these questions sound obvious, I know, but this is a new area for me and with the installation I'm doing I *really* don't want to have to do it more than once.

Thanks!

[billygoat333]

just curious what purpose would the magnets in the water loop serve? never heard of that.

[Luke122]

Maybe to ensure that there's no metal particles floating through the loop?

[billygoat333]

thats what I was thinking... but wouldnt the metal particles help with the cooling?? lol

[Spawn-Inc]

it should be fine, but what reason do you want them there for?

if you have metal floating in your loop there are other issues at hand


though it could be for holding things in place.

[x88x]

but wouldnt the metal particles help with the cooling??

IDK about that, but they almost definitely would wear down the inside of the loop, possibly eventually resulting in leaks and pump failure. Either that or they would pool in a waterblock and cause blockage/decreased cooling.

I wouldn't think that having the magnets in the loop would be much of a problem, just make sure they're far away from any magnetic data storage (including chips on the MBB; don't wanna wipe out your BIOS).

I'm also curious as to why you would want to have them in there in the first place though.

[blueonblack]

The reason is top secret at the moment, it's something I'm working on for Clockwork, but no there will be nothing in the water at all. As the consensus seems to be that it will be all right, I will pursue this further. Thanks, gang!

[msmrx57]

Hmmmmmm.........

[mtekk]

I wouldn't think that having the magnets in the loop would be much of a problem, just make sure they're far away from any magnetic data storage (including chips on the MBB; don't wanna wipe out your BIOS).

Magnets could pose a problem if they are too close to the hard disk platters. They could also be disruptive to your power regulation circuitry (in particular the iron or ferrite chokes). But as for actual chips you won't have issues (nothing that I know of on consumer motherboards uses magnetic storage, at the moment). And, your BIOS is implemented using a flash EEPROM, which uses a floating non-ferrous metal (or doped silicon) gate for storing data.

[x88x]

your BIOS is implemented using a flash EEPROM, which uses a floating non-ferrous metal (or doped silicon) gate for storing data.

Ah, ok. I did not know that, thanks.