How much is a full water cooling system?

Depends what you define as 'full' - what components you want to cool and what quality pump, block, rad etc. you use.

For a decent CPU loop, I'd say around £150.
 
I've been looking at this a lot recently, and unfortunately, there is no direct answer. There are budget and kit options, but the experienced don't generally recommend them.

The first thing I realised was, that to water cool my system, my case was going to be tight, so I factored in a new case to begin with. When you start investigating cases, and the water cooled builds in the picture thread, that'll give you an idea of what you can do. Then, price up the individual parts. Waterblock (or blocks), pump (best to go as powerful as possible, or risk having to upgrade later), reservoir (can be combined with the pump as a "top"), radiator, and fans.

HTH, and there are some very helpful guys on here that'll point you in the right direction. I've found the build logs to be really great.
 
Full watercooling meaning CPU/GPU etc etc ? erm like most things its a case of pick a budget & try work to that, I would guess £150 upwards depending on how many parts you want to cool.

I've been looking into this a bit for my own system, there seems to be a good few ways to solve the same problem, most reviews don't really rate the kits too highly although recently they are getting a bit better.
 
The case is the most important, you need space so you can expand the loop in the future if you wish. I would say, £150+ on the loop, and £75+ on the case.
 
godd full-cover gpu blocks are very dear and not often re-usable. better to get a general purpose gpu block and use ram sinks on the rest of the card. that cuts the cost considerably.

£200 gets decent to good components.
 
can easily go up to £300 for CPU/GPU good components (when you factor in every last expense)
dont forget extra costs of fittings, tubing, fluid, cleaning fluids, cable clips, UV lights if you're wanting pretty pretty, fans for rad

i spent £20 on vinegar and distilled water alone to clean rad! and with sourcing the best parts from different places, i easily spent £350 on everything.
 
Depends on how much you want out of it.
Just spent $400 on Bitspower fittings alone another $50 on tubing and around 400 on CPU and GFX and custom C&C north and sourthbridge/mosfet blocks
Thats not counting the Rad & Pumps and reservoirs...

Starter set go with the switfech set nice and easy decent hardware will cost you around £200
 
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