>>In short, the quiet ones push more air than the cheap pieces of crap you buy with your imported case anyway.<<

Whoa there Jon... both the good and bad cases and power supplies are almost invariably made overseas. It's just a question of how much the purchaser wanted to pay to get better quality.

I travel quite a lot between the US and Taiwan (and I'm not from Taiwan), and what never ceases to amaze me is how much you see in a computer is actually sourced from Taiwan, the PRC, etc. And it isn't necessarily because of cost (although it often is).