well im looking into building a new build for vista and so far i have 6 fans in my new build... 5 vantec 80 mm fans and a 120 mm silverstone fane on the heatsink...now i was thinking about modding my case and putting a couple vent fans at the top but is there a point to where there are too many fans in your case
i already gotcha beat man....
4 case fans (2x120mm and 2x90mm)
Corsair RAM cooling fans (3x40mm)
Vantec PCI fan card (2x70mm)
CPU cooling fan (1x92mm)
That makes 10, not including built-in fans for Graphics card and PSU...
It's not about how many fans you got but how well you control the velocity and direction of air-flow thru the case....in thru the lower front and out thru the upper back while flowing across the major components including the hard-drives, chipset heat-sinks, graphics card, CPU and RAM.
how about this. 4, 120 mm thermaltake thunderblades on the side of my case, 1 120mm thunderblade in the front, 2 thunderblades as exhaust, one 80mm top exhaust, and one aerocool xtreme turbine on the heatsink
7 thunderblades * 78 cfm per fan = 549 cfm
1 80mm fan = 32.5 cfm
1 xtreme turbine = 89.39 cfm
so thats 9 total fans, pushing 667.89 cfm through my case. ;p
if you don't believe me, ill send you pictures