Price seems reasonable. I spent slightly more than that to get a 16GB/SSD setup. I'd recommend that you get at least a 60GB SSD for your Windows/apps drive and use a regular higher capacity one for your working files. A clean Windows 7 install leaves about 45GB, a little less than 40 after I've installed all my DCC apps.…
SSD has absolutely no noise. Its flash memory, no moving parts to make any noise. Trust me, this is a good thing. =P Greevar: Yeah $100 is the max I would spend on a case too, and I've built perfectly acceptable systems for friends/reletives and my HTPC for $40-60 range. People can get a bit too worked up about the quality…