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Yes, I do recommend you go with the airflow-optimized design. I can see iamacow's point about using liquid cooling for reducing noise, but the expense is a factor. On the other hand, among standard case fans Noctua produces some of the lowest-noise units, so you may find that will give you all you need.
You should be aware of a wrinkle in comparing fans, and there's very little you can do for this point. As an example, look at those specs you quoted for two different Noctua units. The larger fan produces more noise and more air flow when both are run at top speed. What they cannot ell you is what the noise from that larger fan will be when it is slowed down to produce the SAME air flow (and hence the same cooling performance) as the smaller fan.
I should also point out something about similar fans. The Noctua ULN line of fans are designed to run slower for the same signals as their "regular" version of the same fan. This means they produce less noise AND less air flow. What is hard to decide is this: if you bought the "regular" version of that same fan, what noise would it generate if it were running NOT at top speed, but at a reduced speed to produce the same (lower) air flow as that ULN unit? You MAY be able to guess at that because in their specs, Noctua often tells you air flow and noise figures at three different speeds, So maybe you can use those to answer the question of comparative noise at equal AIR FLOW rates. You see, the entire point of using mobo-based automatic fan controls is that the system will reduce the fan speeds to just the right speed to produce the AIR FLOW needed for the cooling requirements. So for any given heat load, if you used a different fan the system would change its speed to give you the SAME air flow and cooling, and this would result in a new noise level.
What a ULN fan does is limit the maximum cooling you can achieve, since it will never run as fast as a "regular" fan of that family.