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Though I don't have personal experience, several of my friends recommend the Thermaltake Silent Boost HS/fan unit. It runs at 21 dB and apparently keeps things nice and cool.
And for the video cards... the XT is only a marginal increase in power over the pro (in fact, in a few benchmarks, the pro outperformed the XT...). In my opinion, it's not worth the $100 I'd pay, or even the $80 you'd pay. But again, it's up to you.
The main difference you'll see is when you have ALL the effects turned up ALL the way. Then the XT has a noticable framerate increase. Either way, though, they'll still be super high framerates. Like over 100 on all the newest games.
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