Purpose of Thread Informational / Benefit of FreeNAS community / Discussion purposes. I couldn't find a quantitative comparison of the Noctua NH-D9DX i4 / NH-D9L and the SuperMicro SNK-P0048AP4, which would have been helpful in selecting a CPU cooling solution (as part of a broader system...

I apologize in advance for the long post, but I'm trying to figure this stuff out alone and I'm getting nowhere. Also, sorry for the 'noise' ratings, but I don't own any equipment to measure decibel. I'm sure it's my ignorance, but I'm unable to read CPU fan rpm via any 3rd party utilities...