System: Athlon 64 3000 ( NOT overlocked ) Zalman CNPS 7000A-CU Cooler Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W PSU 9600SE heatsinked Graphics card 200GB Maxtor SATA Coolermaster Alluminium case 1 SilenX intake fan, 1 SilenX exhaust I'm close to almost having a silent PC. The case is lined with acoustipack damping foam(works great) and the HDD is placed in a SilentMaxx silencer(wors great too). The noisiest thing in my case now and the two SilenX fans, if you can believe that, cosidering these are highly rated quiet performers. I'm not sure whether they are generating some case rattle, the rear one does for sure but it's hard to tell with the front intake fan... My system never seems to get hot, and so far have had no problems with heating issues. Which leads me to wondering whether or not I can safely remove the front intake fan and not be paranoid about overheating inside the case? If I could remove the fron intake fan and deal with the slighlty screw/case rattling of the rear fan I'm down to Xbox levels of ommited noise :)