Price me water cooling ?

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Would someone at OC care to price me watercooling in its entirety ?
I need to cool i7-2600k and 2x GTX480 sli setup in Antec900 case.
I only run CPU overclock of tame 4.5ghz, which holds well on air, but when SLI kicks in it becomes way noisy. GTX480's are running stock.

Also, dust. Getting tired clearing cats out of the case... Want to just seal the whole thing in with top vent for rad cooling and slight air extraction for mobo/psu cooling (200mm quiet fan)

Main concern is noise and ease of up(down)grading/maintenance (researching that now). Not too bothered about aesthetics, functionality is priority.

Single loop i suppose. Antec900 case has holes for WC piping.

PSU is OCZ ZX 1000w...

Thanks...

#EDIT1# Well, i cant buy gtx480 reference waterblocks anymore... Anyone here have a used pair of these kicking about ?
 
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I have an FC480GTX looking for a home.

As for the cooling you want, I think you need a little re-think. You can't extract air through a radiator without air being able to get in somewhere. That means if you put the rad at the top with air exhausting through it, you must have inlets to the case or you'll get no airflow whatsoever. If you want a case that's sealed so you don't get cat hair and dust build up, then the rad can't be in the case either.

So, you could get a nice big rad, use the holes in the case to feed the tubing out of the case and use an external rad. This makes it quite easy to clean as well as the intake side of the rad can just be hoovered when required. The radiator can sit on your desk, behind it, wherever. Make sure you get fan guards though or you may hurt your cats.
 
MikeTimbers@ drop me a PM with email (do you use skype txt ?) so we can comm some more about that "good home for FC480GTX"...I may also be interested in other used bits if any available...

By cats i mean figurative cats as in big dust buildups. :D

The case has too many holes if left fanless, and what i mean by "sealing" is plugging unused openings to make for a good airflow to chuck air out of the case over the top 180mm silent fan.

Also planning to use that top fan to blow into radiator (place rad on top of the case/fan).

Research yielded some good insight in WC. I'm going compression fittings and smaller piping with distilled h2o in the veins... Still need to decide on res/pump bits. CPU blocks are easy/plentiful...

I'm really having trouble sourcing blocks for 480's though. Even with ebay i'm pretty much drawing a blank...
 
Well, gpu waterblocks are sorted, bought 2 off a german bloke who's selling off his 4x480 sli stuff :D

Now to sort out CPU block. The things i've been reading suggest that difference in blocks are no more than 5c (mostly), so for non-extreme (non)overclocker it doesnt really matter which block to choose, aesthetic considerations aside.

So, whats the cheapest decent block i can get for socket 1155 (i7 2600k) ?
 
TBH i think after getting full cover GPU blocks, you shouldn't get a substandard cpu block. If you don't mind spending fifty quid on a CPU block, EK's Supremacy blocks are great performance wise and are universal, in case you ever want to upgrade/downgrade.
 
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