Are my tower fans set up OK?

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ERIC J

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I wanted to ask if i have my fans set up in a good fashion?
I have 5 120mm fans in my case and have all only the front 140mm as a intake?
the remaining 120mm fans(rear,side and top) are all exhaust.
The particular GPU i use(EVGA gtx780ti) has a ACX cooler which dispels the heat into the case not to the outside so that pretty much why so many exhaust fans. my cooler is a CM v6 with 2- 120mm jet flo fans
CPU is a i5 3570K oc'd to 4.3ghz
Is this method OK or should i have at least one more intake fan?
my temp are,
CPU
Idle 26' c
load 45-55' c
MB
Idle 23' c
load 37-40' c
 
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With an overclock, that's a great temp.

I wouldn't even worry about the fans. You have 10-20C to play with with each of your components (different for each of course). All of your temps are great, but like I said, you could probably get rid of one fan from the top and one from the side and you'll run quieter while keeping temps near the same. Just something to try.
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The temps are good. You could probably lose a fan or two.

Also, with the side fan, I've historically used it as an intake for cooler air to blow on my GPU(s), but I have usually used the stock Nvidia solution that blows out the back.

There's definitely nothing wrong with your temps though. They're quite good and you have some room for experimentation. If you can reduce the number of fans (maybe one less on top and no side fan), you'll reduce fan noise. If you want to try it, check the temps after unplugging the side and one of the top fans from the PSU or motherboard and check temps. Just something to try if you want a quieter tower. Your CPU can go into the 60Cs no problem.

 
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ERIC J

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I did have the two side 120's are intake before and it was fine but i was looking at where the GPU fans direct the hot air and if those 2 fans were intake it would blow the hot air towards the MB?
should i make the top fans intake?
 
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Since you're already doing very well with your temps, what exactly is you cooling goal?

The top fans should not be intakes. Hot air rises. You would be fighting physics by using the top fans as intakes.

Think of a bottom/front in and a top/back out as the ideal flow in a standard ATX case. Of course, this spec (bottom front to back top flow) was put into place before cases were produced with top fans, but it's a good rule to follow.

The fact is, you already have very good temps. You probably have more fans than you need in the system already.

You didn't list your GPU idle/load temps. How does the 780ti do with the current fan configuration?

 
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with the fans as front intake, sides exhaust,rear exhaust and top fans exhaust my 780ti under full gaming load never goes over 69 degree's and the 780ti is a superclocked model, plus i overclocked it further running it at 1200mhz
 
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With an overclock, that's a great temp.

I wouldn't even worry about the fans. You have 10-20C to play with with each of your components (different for each of course). All of your temps are great, but like I said, you could probably get rid of one fan from the top and one from the side and you'll run quieter while keeping temps near the same. Just something to try.
 
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