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you have a point with the noise and hard-drives, however, with contemporary Noctua fans, PCs are honestly quite silent these days, virtually unhearable @ load if you put it under the desk instead of besides the monitor... and most people who need more than the 32TB of SSD that two NVMe slots affords you on a miniITX motherboard are probably going to be running a separate NAS machine somewhere in the room with FreeBSD and a ZFS pool in RAID set up with all the hard-drives you could want

PC building back in 2018 was something else entirely, you were entirely justified for de-lidding a 7900X and running a ridiculous OC if you could afford it back then, because it got you visibly better performance, and back then RTX 20-series had only just released and you were able to run pretty much any game out with a GTX 1050 purely because of the fact that DirectX 12 & modern Vulkan hadn't raped Pascal yet

PCs in 2025 are a different beast entirely, you can't even depend on JEDEC standards for RAM OC anymore