for starters you can undervolt the e6300 to reduce heat. even at a 2.4Ghz OC i was able to undervolt the 6300. download orthos utility to test. get a heatsink with loose spacing between fins. they work best with low RPM fans or passive. the scythe ninja is a good choice (ultra 120?). mate the heatsink with a silent fan at low RPM. put the fan on the heatsink in a pull configuration, pulling air towards the exhaust fan. get rid of the exhaust fan on the case. the fan on the heatsink will act both as a cpu cooling fan and exhaust. putting it in a push configuration cools better but the air flow might not be strong enough to exhaust. the idea is to get rid of one fan yet still actively cool the fins. if you are fine with the sound of tri-cool exhaust on low speed use that on your heatsink to save $. i use yate loons. their quality vary, at $3.50 each buy three and pick the best one.
i had my Antec Solo in this configuration with suspended drives, a Corsair 520HX psu. this psu has 12cm fan on bottom so it also helped exhaust. you literally had to concentrate to hear it. check out silentpcreview.com if you want to get serious about silence
one more thing, the noisiest components are usually the VGA cooler and chipset fans. Gigabyte makes great passively cooled 7600 GT cards.
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