Where to put additional fan in Corsair Carbide 200R

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I'm going to build a PC (first time) with the Corsair Carbide 200R case. It comes with a 120 mm front intake fan and a 120 mm rear exhaust fan, and it has additional room for 1 front (120 mm, somewhat blocked by hard drive bay), 1 bottom (120 mm), 2 side (120/140 mm) and 2 top (120/140 mm) fans.

The graphics card will be a GTX 960 blower type, and I will use a CM Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler as well. What would be the best position for an extra intake fan? I was think a bottom fan would provide fresh air for the graphics card, but would a 140 mm side fan be a better choice, or maybe the lower front one? Would it be best to get two extra fans rather than one?
 
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Get side fan(BLOWING ON THE GRAPHICS CARD)and extra front fan and you will have a positive pressure setup feeding cool air inside the case to cool motherboard and CPU. leave rear as exhaust.... I have similar setup and she runs COOL AND QUIET even while overclocking and with two GPU,s in SLI....
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Get side fan(BLOWING ON THE GRAPHICS CARD)and extra front fan and you will have a positive pressure setup feeding cool air inside the case to cool motherboard and CPU. leave rear as exhaust.... I have similar setup and she runs COOL AND QUIET even while overclocking and with two GPU,s in SLI....
 
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Thanks for the quick answer! What is the advantage of using a (quite obstructed) extra front fan rather than bottom fan? Better hard drive cooling?
 
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Yes and will aid in positive pressure setup. sometimes you have move hard drive up or down also so more air gets in. more intakes equals more cooler air available inside your case. ALWAYS.....
 
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I would have thought that an unobstructed 140 mm bottom intake would contribute more to positive pressure than the second 120 mm front intake? But I get that the front fan would be better for hard drive cooling. Would it be a best to use a static pressure fan for the second front intake, like the Corsair SP120 Quiet?
 
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you only stated 2 fans. I like three fans.. fill every hole....from the schemataic on his case it would seem you can move the hard drive down to the bottom and unimpede the fan. plus there is a dust filter on the front and I don't think there is on the bottom. but I would put as many intakes as possible if it were me.
 
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Thanks a lot!
 
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