I'm having some fun today. I decided a few days ago that it was time to build myself a new machine, and this time I was going to make it a quiet one. After doing some research I selected an extra-quiet Antec case (it's got things like rubber-band mounting for disk drives), a quiet Antec power supply (large slow-moving fan), a Seagate fluid-bearing hard disk, and a fanless graphics card. The processor is an Athlon x2 with an Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 cooler which had excellent reviews.
I ordered the kit from Ebuyer at about 11:00 yesterday, and at 10:00 this morning it turned up. I spent a few hours putting it together, and I'm now installing a test OS to see how it goes. It's so quiet I can hardly hear a sound, except when the DVD-Rom winds up.
I'm feeling rather smug. 8)
Eric