Well boys. I flew too close to the sun.
Got a ICX-6610-48P. Reasonable, ~$200 to my door from a friend of a friend.
I read the stats. I knew it was loud (It's got 2x rev B PSU's and 2x fan trays). I told myself, it's not that loud surely. $DAYJOB taught me what a loud server/switch is. I ignored the fine people here.. And I paid for it.
For reference, my gear is all located in a walk-in closet about 8 ft away from my desk behind a closed door.
My old switch was a Cisco 3750G 24port with POE. Which wasn't silent. But I can't hear it on the other side of the door.
Fast forward to the 6610. It's loud, sure. The cisco is loud too before the fans spin down. What I hadn't considered is them spinning back up.
The closet gets to almost 100F during the summer. And even now that it's cooler, about 83F. Even at 83F the 6610 runs quietly until it hits a CPU temp of 76C. Then it goes full balls-to-the-wall for about 20 seconds, Where it reaches under 71C which trips back into fan mode 1. Rinse and repeat every 10 minutes or so. Fan mode 1 is silent to me (Behind a door). Fan mode 2 is so loud I'll have to explain it on phone calls. Man if the 6610 had a middle fan speed between "audible" and "F18 on a vertical climb", it would be perfect.
So the cisco is back in for now. I'm guessing I'm going to throw the 6610 up on Ebay and try to make back what I've got into it. Putting my 10G upgrade plans on hold for now. I think I'll pickup a 7250-48P and give that a try.
Thanks to
@fohdeesha on the licensing help!