My experience with Intel NUCs (but that's not recent models) is that they are very quiet as long as you don't push them, but super noisy if you push them. So I'

My experience with Intel NUCs (but that's not recent models) is that they are very quiet as long as you don't push them, but super noisy if you push them. So I'd stay way from NUCs in a living room unless you are doing low power stuff.