It runs quiet enough for me, at the moment I’m sitting right in front of it, as I’m still configuring it, and I don’t notice the noise.

The front HDMI in my opinion only serves if you want to connect those 6 screens to it, other than that I don’t see any other purpose.

Btw, you can completely configure the colors of the skull on the case, which is neat.

I also ran an update, with BIOS and everything through Intel’s website. It recognizes if you have outdated drivers and updates them all for you. Just go to their webpage, press the scan button, and the rest is done automatically. Very practical, plus it works flawlessly.