They are pretty quiet, and are very solid cases... but the noisest thing in my system is definately the cpu fan (still on my list of things to upgrade :ismile: )... so worth spending some money on a decent one
zalman do some good stuff, i've got one of their fan-less heatsinks on my graphics card which works like a dream...
I have the Antec Sonata which is pretty quiet. Get a Zalman CPU fan and a motherboard chipset heatsink to replace the chipset fan. Also buy a low end graphics card which doesn't require a dedicated fan (if you want a better graphics card then you could try and get a large fanless heatsink to replace the fan). The Antec Sonata comes with fairly quiet power supply and case fans. Also go for a quiet model of hard disk. I think the Seagate Barracuda is one of the quietest. I find that having my CPU fanspeed on its lowest setting on my P4 is fine until you are running at about 60%CPU - at which point it starts to overheat and needs to be turned up. You could get a motherboard with intelligent fan speed control to deal with this.
If you want to splash out a bit more it is possible to build a completely fanless PC with enough cash/effort.
I can recommend the quality and effectiveness of the parts you can get from quietpc.com. I bought a case, Zalman flower CPU fan, low-noise PSU and DVD-RW drive from them and it made a huge difference.
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