Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 3 120mm or 2 140mm?

XxKINGxX40

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The Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 case comes with 2 140mm fans pre installed. Should I change those for 3 120mm? or are 2 140 better for air flow?

Specs:

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX 8350 OCd to 4.4GHz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz (2x8GB)
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 770 SC w/ ACX Cooler
PSU: Corsair RM850
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB SSD + Western Digital 1TB Hard drive.
 

elmo2006

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Personally I would try to avoid the 120mm fans due to the increase in noise compared to the 140mm fans. Besides the larger the fan the better the cooling with less nose generated but that may not always be the case as there are plenty of garbage fans out there.