Watercooling noob Help spec pease

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Hey am looking at building my brother a new computer and wanted to do water cooling, this is the spec am thinking

1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £253.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £91.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £78.98
1 x Corsair Force GT 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F60GBGT-BK) £74.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £46.98
1 x Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse and FREE Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface £44.99
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £29.99


Now i have never touched or looked into watercooling before but since he wants it to be silent (as close as you can to it) i thought why not give it a try.

Could you nice people possable spec me something up, thats not to expensive possably £200 max.

And has any one used the EK-KIT H3O 240 LTX Performance Watercooling Kit? Anygood reviews on it and was it easy to setup?

Thanks in advance

Aaron
 
I would post the initial spec in general hardware and then once it has been Stulided (I think this would be an appropriate verb) then I think you should repost in here.
 
Hey thanks he is the one who put this together for me. He then suggested id post it in here for help with the watercooing side:)

Aaron
 
Looks to me like you can fit a 240 rad in the top and potentially a slim one in the front (Someone will need to confirm.). you might like to look at the HFX 240 kit as well as the HF version as I believe they are better performing. Have you thought about water cooling the graphics card as this will likely be the loudest part.

Edit: modding will allow 240 rads.
 
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i havent not yet am going to ask my brother tonight how much he is willing to spend on cooling and i will let you know a budget am just guessing at £200

Aaron
 
Thanks for the advise i will have a look mite buy the case first as i quite fancy some modding at the moment:)

Aaron
 
Do you guys think it will be better just to get a kit and maby cheaper, ot just put it all together from single components?

Aaron
 
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