First, the case: very, very impressive aluminum case. 2mm thick metal, heavier than average, giving the case a very solid feel. Very nice black finish, fits in at home or the office. Lots of clearance for putting Acousti composite on the right side panel. Speed control for the front two 80mm case fans (standard 3-pin fan plugs) that sit behind a washable air filter. The front bezel is aluminum and pops on and off very easily. Slide-out motherboard tray. Rubber grommets for the HD bays. Very slick toolless CD and floppy drive bays (slide one lever to lock the drives in place). All in all, it's better than the Lian-Li case that I used to have (sold it with my old system) and less expensive too.
The bad: the included fans blow chunks. The rear case fan ran at 2700RPM (loud). The front case fans had a noticible rattle, even with the speed control turned all the way down. The fans are mounted with the same type of plastic rivets that Lian-Li cases use. Replacing the rear fan with a PC Power & Cooling Silencer (around 1900RPM IIRC) was simple enough, but getting to the front fans was VERY challenging. I finally succeeded in removing them and replaced the bottom one with the Pabst fan and fan isolators I had presciently ordered. I left the upper fan mount empty (I'm not sure I could get a fan mounted with fan isolators there anyhow; maybe screws with rubber grommets, but it's not worth it for my setup). I put the drives back in, turned the PC on, discovered it made a very big difference noise-wise... and that I'd put the Pabst fan in backwards.
After getting that corrected, the PC still makes too much noise, which I traced to the fan on the BFG GeForceFX 5700 Ultra that is now very noticible compared to the rest of the system. (Great vidcard otherwise, much cleaner analog signal output than the previous nVidia-based cards I've bought. Recommended.) I'm disappointed with the AcoustiPack foam. I didn't try the case without the foam so I can't make a direct comparison, but I don't think it's making much difference at all. The vidcard fan is very audible; I'll order a Zalman heatpipe cooler next week and hope it fits (I have the small one on the GeForce 440MX in my server, kinda nervous about the size and weight of the big one my FX5700 will requier... well, actually, it doesn't run all that hot, but I'll get the big one anyhow). Maybe after I've dealt with the vidcard fan I'll be able to notice the foam making a difference.
The Pabst fan is very impressive. Glad I bought it.
The Seasonic Super Silencer really does use less power than other PSUs. I have an Athlon 64 3200+ (ASUS K8V, Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu @ 1600RPM) with two Seagate 7200.7 SATAs (striped). After replacing my PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Active PFC with it (I had this silly idea that the variable-speed fan in the ridiculously powerful 510 would run slow and quiet under the light load I was placing on it; nope, it doesn't work that way) my APC SmartUPS 620 registered a 6-1/2 percentage point drop on its load meter (granted in part because the 510 is a much higher capacity supply; PCP&C's way of defining wattage is VERY conservative). That's huge given that there's also a 19" panel and an Athlon 1700+ plugged into the UPS, and the total load is about 67% (both readings while the Athlon 64 was in Cool & Quiet mode which drops the CPU to 800MHz when idle). It doesn't keep the voltage rails as stable as the PCP&C supply (which is the gold standard of PSUs and priced that way) but it'll do and it's a LOT quieter. I'm tempted to get Seasonic's 300W model for my Athlon 1700+ to replace its Antec True330 as it runs 24x7. (BTW, I reclocked that 1700+ to 7.5x200MHz on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe; fairly low power consumption and lots of memory bandwidth. Multimonth uptimes running Linux.)
Anyhow, to summarize: great case but needs a LOT of work to quiet. Great power supply. Great Pabst fan. Disappointing foam.
I also had some EAR grommets sitting here that didn't fit in my last case so I tried them in place of the rubber. At first I thought they fit but they weren't quite as thick and when I installed the hard drive I noticed a slight gap left between the drive and the grommets so I went back to the rubber. Best thing I did was piece together a splitter/extension cable from a left over fan, pin adapter and splice connectors so I could connect all 3 case fans to the front fan controller. Now I can maintain positive pressure to keep dust to a minimum even with the fans turned down. On low all 3 case fans are dead silent but they don't move much air so I'm keeping them on medium. No clue what voltage that translates too, I wrote an email to Kingwin to ask about the fan controller but they haven't replied yet. I was planning on putting up a more complete account of my FINALLY successful quiet system maybe even a couple pictures though not sure there's really anything interesting to see and my camera sucks but this seemed like a good time/place to post about the case.