cheapest price for decent watercooling?

I would say £26 for the CPU block. £60 (ish for a full cover GPU block. £30 for pump and res.£28/£70 for a rad. Then the pipe work just get that from a fish/camping shop.

£156 plus pipes.

You could do it for a lot less but many ppl just want water cooling so it looks nice and bragging rights.

I have done a build for about £40
 
What did you use for water blocks at £40?

£200 is about right. Adding the graphics card does the budget no favours. However for your first loop I recommend going second hand, things like waterblocks and radiators are essentially unchanged with time yet devalue anyway. £200 second hand will get you a lot more than it would new.

Cheapest is impossible to say without more details. Example: If you're up for getting copper/brass from a scrap yard and milling yourself water blocks it'll be pretty cheap, but if you have to buy the milling machine first it really wouldn't be.
 
wc stuff is so expensive, second hand makes it about half price. For instance my fave pump (d5 vario) is 60/70quid new, 30quid second hand...
 
Complete cheapest you'd be looking at a block, then pull a radiator from a car and get a pump. Depends on how much you can get things for really.
 
If you just want it for the CPU the corsair H50 is really good for £64ish and you never need to change the coolant etc. It's very quiet and you can even mount it internally (as long as you have room), it's also very simple and quick to install.

I'd get one of those and then a small separate loop for the graphics card and chipset :)

Your still looking at well over £100 though.
 
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If you just want it for the CPU the corsair H50 is really good for £64ish and you never need to change the coolant etc. It's very quiet and you can even mount it internally (as long as you have room), it's also very simple and quick to install.

I'd get one of those and then a small separate loop for the graphics card and chipset :)

Your still looking at well over £100 though.
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i already have a megahalems which is just as good as the H50. and if i am going to cool the gpu and cpu, woudlnt i be best doing it in one set..
 
Might be me, but the gain you get from cooling the GPU does not out off set the cost and temps.. If you think of the extra cost in GPU cooler and then the extra rads to cool the water.you would be better spending the extra cash on getting a better GPU.
You can get a 5850 for £225 take the £70 of that price you would spend on a Cooler that then makes it £155 then the rad poss £20. Thats £135 for 5850 :) sure we would all pay that for one.
 
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you never need to change the coolant etc.
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Correction: When you need to change the coolant, you can't. How peope are taking this as a positive I just don't know.

H50 costs more than a water block and cools no better than air, so I don't really follow the argument for a proper loop + a H50.

Watercooling a graphics card means it makes no noise and runs faster. That's not so bad, especially when the graphics card can easily be the loudest thing in a system with a water cooled cpu. But then, I was cunning enough to buy my waterblocks second hand, the ek supreme has cost about £35 in total (inc. replacement back plate, mounting plate, top) and the graphics block £15. Second hand is the way to go
 
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