just a thought...
put a white piece of paper behind the tubes...
see if its just showing the background color of your case /MB (although unlikely).
Nope, still brown.
color of tubing is probably from the flash. Turn it off, turn more indirect lights on.
Nope, still brown

Less brown, but still brown.
I can
see that it's clearly brown, even in the tubing outside of the case where it connects to the radiator.
Those things definitely accentuate the color tint, however. With more ambient light, a white card behind the tubes, and flash off it looks
fairly clear. It still looks like there's a heavy smoker living in my radiator, and it's still enough to make me want to flush out the system and replacing the tubing.
Prior to this go-round the tubing was a little cloudy/milky white, but it didn't look like
literal crap.