I got all of the components into a case today. They still work and everything is running as I had hoped. I installed Sequoia 12 and have that working as best as I can for now. There will be all kinds of tweaking and settings after I get the audio interfaces connected in, but so far so good.
The computer is super quiet just as I had hoped and I can only hear the optical drive when it is active. The rest of the time, it is like the computer isn’t even there. I hope everything else can work as planned as I progress through the buildout. This is a good omen for sure. It is overbuilt but not too crazy, and moderately complex (raid array to keep 2 copies of everything as I work, etc.) but no big surprises. Lets keep this working like I planned thing going.
