On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 09:29 US/Pacific, Morgan Reed wrote: > If you think your mac is loud, try a P4 or an Athalon. Holy Crap! you > have > to bury the machine in sound deadening to hear yourself think. If > noise is > important to you, expect to buy a much more expensive case for your > PC, plus > more expensive fans. Many people generalize. A Dell tower (don't know the model number offhand) we use for customers is remarkably quiet. For the OP, I saw an announcement about MacExpo that said there would be a vendor there selling replacement cases/PSs for the "wind tunnel" Macs. Check out the info next week and see what you find. KeS