Wish I could say mine is quiet too, but it aint. I have the SuperAlien case with 8 fans, and it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. But, my stuff stays cool. I am considering water cooling, but I would have to raise my geek status.
I got my Dell XPS 600 off their outlet store just a few weeks after the Dell 700 came out. Got a dual core 3.0 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM system, with the 7900 GS, Raid 0 320 Gb HDD (2 160 Gb drives), etc. (just the box mind you) for just under $700. Then bought a 20" Wide Screen display from the Outlet too for just under $300. Paid less than a thousand for a system that three months earlier would have cost me $2400 direct from Dell, and being refurbished, it came with a standard Dell warranty.
It was the wife's Christmas present to old grandpa here.
My biggest issue with this new iPhone is simply to wait until it is available on Verizon because we have such good coverage here...and that will probably allow me to get it cheaper too since it will have been out a while...but I definitiely do want one.