Need Advice On Choosing A Case for Water Cooling

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Hello everyone
I'm planning to build a new system and I need you to share your experience with me and advice me about choosing a suitable case.
I plan to use water cooling with 2 radiators, one 360 mm and the other 240 mm, or at least both 240 mm.
I intend to cool the whole componenets of my PC with liquid ( CPU, 2 GPUs, 3 RAM DIMMS, NB, SB and 2 HDDs), I may use 2 loops of WC or just one if I find a powerful enough pump.
I prefer the case to mount the PSU at the top and not at the buttom, othewrwise I would go for Antec 1200.
What case do you suggest?
Thanks in advance.
 

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It's gonna be expensive, but look into LianLi. Also seriously, you will not notice any difference WC'ing the HDD's, or RAM (just makes a bigger mess of tubing in the case, impeding airflow).

http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g1/c295/list/p1/Cases-Lian-Li_Cases.html
lots of people swear by these cases (I swear at them, after looking at the price tag).

As for the CPU, NB, and SB those can be cooled by a single 120mm radiator easily. (as long as you run them in circuit)

The GPU's can be cooled by a dual 120mm radiator. (these alone emit more heat than the rest of the components combined)

You don't need a massive pump, and affords less clutter with 2 smaller pumps, using 3/8 ID tubing (with anti-kink coils).
(avoid compression fittings too)

All these items can be found on http://www.frozencpu.com/