New to water cooling looking for help on building a full cpu/gpu loop

i have just been pricing up my 1st proper loop cpu gpu and motherboard i am looking at almost £400. i have got my cpu water cooled at the moment with a thermaltake/gigabite system i got off ebay cheap and my temps never whent over 40c on a q6600 so i have decideed to take the plunge on my new rig when it arives this weekend or next week and go all out.

Can you list your parts? I am designing a CPU GPU (sli) loop and it's costing me over 800 quid! Do you already have fans for rads and fittings, because for me that is the real expense.
 
Can you list your parts? I am designing a CPU GPU (sli) loop and it's costing me over 800 quid! Do you already have fans for rads and fittings, because for me that is the real expense.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-042-OE
this is what i have used as a base spec but i have been makeing a lot of changes, different rad,plexi pump top, frozenq res, 5x0 gpu block, compression fittings,mb blocks. all the blocks will be the old ek ones not the **** with circles and that should come in just under 400
 
If you're really afraid with leaks then what you can do is build the loop in your system, using compression fittings to ensure everything is nice and tight. Remove the entire loop and then roughly elevate each component to where it would roughly be in regards to the res and run it like that, put some white paper towel around each connection. I rebuilt my WC loop about 5 times before I got it right as I had issues with my EK block, I only ran it for around 6 hours before I put it back into my system each time. You'll need to bridge a PSU to do it outside your PC but if you're worried its a safe way to go without potentially damaging anything.
 
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