Fans!!!

[arix]

im currently customizing my case... Built a side window and got a few 120mm fans and 1 80mm...
i want to place 1 120mm on the top, 1 120mm for exhaust, 2 120mm on the window and the 80mm on the front...

i got 1 120mm fan that pushes air like a turbine 3x more than the others but makes 4x more noise looks like this: http://www.hardwarecooling.com/images/SFF21E.gif wondered if i should put this fan as the axhaust and the others like intakeas... another thing i wanted to ask was: If i could put a 120mm fan in the window facing the stock cpu fan, Will this make and turbulence??/ or will it imprve the cpu cooling???

1 120mm top (intake)
2 120mm Window (intake)
1 120mm back (exhaust)
1 80mm front (intake)

will i get a nice airflow with this setup??? or should i change something?

[Cricket]

Personally, I try to use as few fans as possible in my builds to keep turbulence and noise down to a minimum. Four 120mm fans is way over-kill as far as I'm concerned.

:) Cricket

[arix]

Then what would u do if u where me????
I placed a 120,mm fan in front of mi GPU and temps lowered from 61C to 44C

[Cricket]

What are your complete system specs and which case are you using?

:) Cricket

[arix]

amd athlon 64 3800+ 939
Foxconn nf4k8mc mobo 939
1gb corsair xms ram
1 Wd Caviar Hdd 80gb
Evga gforce 6800gs
Sound Blaster live! 7.1

the case is a crappy micronics brand case... I had it laying arround and it was perfect for moding... spacious and has a lot of places where u can fit fans.... looks liek this http://images.google.com.do/imgres?imgurl=http://www.epinions.com/images/opti/c3/51/pr-Antec_LifeStyle_Sonata_Piano_Black_Quiet_Mid_Tower_ATX_Case_w_USB_2_0_1394_380W_TruePower_dsantsonat a-resized200.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.epinions.com/content_148882755204&h=200&w=200&sz=4&hl=es&start=5&tbnid=FSxQDKOTu7VeBM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmid%2Btower%2Bcase%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Des%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

[flanzig1]

Change the top fan to exhaust(heat rises).

[arix]

Thanks... i wasnt thinking about that...
should i keep the back fan as an exhaust?

[Cricket]

If you really want to use all those fans then put the most powerful 120mm on the back of the case blowing out, one 120mm on the top as a blow hole blowing out, the 80mm up front as an intake and the two other 120mm fans on the side blowing into the case on the expansion cards and the CPU. I hope you don't mind the noise this thing will probably make.

:) Cricket

[arix]

should i put one of the 120mm pointing to the cpu fan?

[Cricket]

I don't think it's necessary but since you want to put two fans on the side door then one should blow on the CPU and the other should blow on the video card and other expansion cards.

:) Cricket