New to Watercooling, advice and input please? (Help me spend £200)

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Hey folks, I've been an 'air clocker' for a long time now but am setting up a new rig and looking to move to water.

My total system budget is around £1500 of which I've allocated £200 tops to a full cooling rig which ideally should include VGA and CPU - possibly chipset...

Anyone care to help me spend my money (with justification please). I'm looking to overclockers.co.uk as a supplier so stuff they don't provide isn't really what I'm after unless it's a damned sight better...
 
Thanks for the advice! I'd had my eye on the Swiftech as it looked a very nice performance 'kit'. I am also looking at the HIS IceQ for this rig - I've generally had very little success OCing video cards - generally to poor choice of cards previously! If I get a VGA block I presume this will increase the temperature of the overall circuit? Would I need a second pump circuit or can I take the hot water off the CPU and feed it to the GPU cooler or vice versa?
 
By the way, my current rig is an air cooled Barton 2800 at 215FSBx10.5Multi with a 6800GT and about 5 YS-Tech fans (80mm) in the case.

It sounds like a banshee. I presume this Swiftech/IceQ rig would be a little quieter?
 
Good comment Inferno, in fact, what cases would take this without major changes. My wife likes the look of the Thermaltake Shark series (and she has a playing factor in my permission to make a new rig....)
 
Still here, almost ready to order, just trying to find out of AN2 will work with the Swiftech rig...

Thought I'd watch the thread derailment ;)
 
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