Not really. Just make sure to use quality parts for heat dissipation (fans/heat sinks), everything is very secure (particularly the hdd and dvd drive), none of your wires are sitting on or in front of fans, and you should be set.
Although I don't own a typical PC these days, if I was buying/building one after owning 2 macs, I'd want it to be silent. Seriously, the noisiest thing I have at the moment is the external backup harddisk. My work PC (Dell) is fairly quiet (though of course it can be hard to tell in an office space) yet this week some of…
Solve your heat issues solve your noisy fan issues. People often find they have a heat problem and just start installing fans. Or just over do it at the start trying to head off the problem, without giving much thought to other things that can keep a system cool. Buying just the right power supply. If you don't need the…