How many fans do you think I need?

Scooby-Dooby-Doo

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Hello everybody!

I'm upgrading my case to a new one, because my current one has only 2 fan mounts, which causes my system (particularly my HDDs) to overheat during gaming, in lack of sufficient airflow.

The case I'm buying is an Antec GX900: http://www.antec.com/product.php?id=706984&fid=5022085
The case comes with two 120mm fans.

My rig is:
i7-3770 3.4 GHz (with it's default cooler)
Gigabyte gtx 970 mini-itx
16 GB ram
WD Black (2 TB) + 2 WD Blue

My question is: How many more fans do you think I need to install in the case?

I'm thinking of adding two Noctua redux 120mm fans: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=91&lng=en&set=1

Do you think these four fans will be enough?
(I don't intend to overclock my system).

 
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Those Noctua fans should be more than enough. It's still strange to see this sort of issues with 3 HDDs, even if one of them is a WD Black.
But if you know HDD temps are too high, add one fan on the side of the case to blow towards the fans would be the solution to your problem.

3ogdy

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Those Noctua fans should be more than enough. It's still strange to see this sort of issues with 3 HDDs, even if one of them is a WD Black.
But if you know HDD temps are too high, add one fan on the side of the case to blow towards the fans would be the solution to your problem.
 
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