The ice-pipe cooler certainly lives up to its promises. I bought a pre-built system from http://www.quietpc.com/ a year ago (i7 2600K, Vertex3, 4GB ram). The only moving component in the system is the dvd drive; cooling is entirely passive. Running the prime95 torture test, 100% load on all 4 cores,...

No, but I have a ZR2740W. This is completely silent at any brightness setting. I don't know if this applies to the 2440 as well though. A potentially important difference is that the ZR2740W does not use PWM to adjust the screen brightness - I don't know if the 2440 is the same, but it's apparently ...