Where to put 80mm fans in Rosewill R5 case.

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Hello, I recently looted a couple old ThermalTake fans from my old desktop from undergrad.
The fans look like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999107 but are white transparent and have blue LEDs and power up using a molex plug.

I am using a Rosewill R5 which has one pre-installed exhaust fans in the back and two pre-installed intake fans in the front. I have just installed on of the two TT-8025's to parallel the stock CPU cooler fan (so it sucks the exhaust from the CPU fan and blows it out through the grating on the case wall).

I was wondering, where should I put the second fan. In case it is relevant, the computer is under my desk and is oriented that the CPU faces my knees and the long aspect of the case is parallel to the desk.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For $118.49)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (Purchased For $116.98)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (Purchased For $76.49)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $59.99)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $249.99)
Case: Rosewill R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $49.99)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $49.99)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $16.99)
Total: $738.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-23 14:07 EDT-0400)
 
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Nightman
As long as all the fans point in generally the same direction, e.g. front to back, you can't go wrong. It would be silly to do something like have an intake and exhaust on the front panel, but other than that you should be fine. I would recommend 3 in and 2 out though, because otherwise the case will suck air in through the cracks, and that might create a dust problem. If you have three in, then air will only be coming in through the dust filters.
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I'd personally put it on the bottom facing up to help direct air from the front fans up to the motherboard and gpu. This will give you air flow diagonally from the bottom right to the top left, which should hopefully blow over all of the components.

Edit: If you want to see the LEDs, you could move the two LED fans to the front and then put the two front fans where the LED ones were.
 
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As long as all the fans point in generally the same direction, e.g. front to back, you can't go wrong. It would be silly to do something like have an intake and exhaust on the front panel, but other than that you should be fine. I would recommend 3 in and 2 out though, because otherwise the case will suck air in through the cracks, and that might create a dust problem. If you have three in, then air will only be coming in through the dust filters.
 
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