I'm not aware of many fanless desktops outside of specialty systems.
When semi-idle (just typing in a browser), turbostat on a i9-10900T system shows values that fluctuate around these values:
PkgWatt CorWatt GFXWatt RAMWatt
4.86 3.89 0.15 1.57
2.21 1.40 0.02 1.41
Mostly it's around the second line with the lower values. Of course, when under load, PkgWatt can go up to close to 100W (depending on the system tuning), but if the cooling solution can handle that for a sufficiently long time, is this really a problem? After all, this CPU, while somewhat dated, is not actually slow, especially for multi-threaded workloads.DIY is a bit hit-or-miss because if you want a truly silent system, you need select components for absence of coil whine, and I haven't found a good way to do that yet.