It depends on what you need from the PC. There's a huge market of fanless mini PCs, which are taking generic laptop motherboards + CPUs (likely bulk orders of s

It depends on what you need from the PC. There's a huge market of fanless mini PCs, which are taking generic laptop motherboards + CPUs (likely bulk orders of surplus from white-label ODMs) and putting them in thick aluminum enclosures. The CPU is mounted such that it directly contacts the case. For the <30W power output of these components, cooling is handled completely passively. Depending on your workload, these can be great value for money (especially with CPUs that are a few generations old). If you need to do heavy compute, these won't fit your needs. For most desktop (as opposed to workstation) use cases, these are great. https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20210806123326&SearchText=fanless+mini+pc https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...