Best Air Flow for Gaming Rig??

Okay, so after doing some research and acquiring some knowledge from others on this forum, I went out and bought the parts for a PC (at newegg.com).

I built it two nights ago, and it is running smoothly so far. I have a couple of questions on keeping airflow and cooling to a maximum. Refer to the following pics:





So in the first pic you can see the two case fans, both 120mm fans. The one at the rear of the case blows outward, and the top fan blows down. The cpu heat sink / fan blows from the right to the left ... ultimately the air there is pulled out toward the rear fan, and then blown out (at least in principle).

I plan on adding a 120mm fan to the front of the case (you can see where in pic 2). This fan will blow inward.

So the question becomes, should I reverse the direction of the top fan to blow up (exhaust), instead of down into the case?

The idea here is to create a vacuum of sorts in the case by reducing air pressure, whereby the air flow moves quickly through the case from front to back.

Yes have the top fan blow up, hot air rises its better to push it out.

Front fans should pull air in, all other fans should push air out.

Thanks. I took another look at my setup and the top fan is already set up to blow out, so will just add the 120mm fan to the front of the case and have it pull air in to blow through the case twd the back ...

I have one of these on my rig

(CPU Cooler)


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010

It's a pretty high power system, with dual video cards, etc. I think it helps to keep the heat down.

I have a copper cpu cooling system with good feedback, so not concerned about that, just concerned bout the case airflow .... your cpu cooler looks decent though, nice reviews on that one