Thanks guys! This seems pretty similar to my current old, kinda busted laptop which seems promising. If with the expansion bay shell it’s overall quieter and after a bit of messing around I’m sure it’d work nicely for my use case. Power profiles and whatnot.
Only other thing I found is this thread: 5400hz sound from dGPU fan on new Framework 16, which hopefully isn’t going to be relevant for me.
Just have to now wait for when the OCuLink kit is available…