I have spent countless hours trying to get hardware to be silent. The only way to do this reliably and without fire hazard is to passively cool the hardware completely by having HUGE heatsinks and THEN you can add a fan that you slow down with a resistor. The fan is only there to prolong the life span, the hardware should be able to run passivley at 100% and you should be able to hold your finger on the heatsink fore…
Today's hardware can scale performance and power consumption by orders of magnitude, I find that solutions that allow quiet day-to-day operation and loud power when needed are meaningful.
I have the fan on my 1030 on a PWM thingy and make it spin faster when I game to keep it under 60 celcius for longevity...
When gaming there usually is noise in my ears through the headphones.