Comment Who likes loud PCs? Here is a solution with photos (Score 1) 720
I hate loud PCs as well. Who wants to listen to fans run?
1. Find a Thermaltake case DH101 DH202, remove the bracket that runs front to back, it just gets in the way. I found mine on Craigslist.
2. Put in a quiet/silent PSU.
3. Put a short Zallman heat sink on your CPU with heat pipes with a 120mm fan on top.
4. Replace all your drives with SSDs, put noisy drives on the network, get a Western Digital My Cloud 4TB and wire it to ethernet for your PLEX library.
5. If the fan on the GPU is loud, get a bigger fan 120mm.
Here are some photos of a DH101 case and how I have it configured to be quiet.
https://drive.google.com/folde...
I agree with your wife, your living room shouldn't sound like a datacenter. Women can hear better than men so it is louder to them.