Corsair Air 240: is this cooling setup sufficient

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I am planning on using the Noctua IIPC NF-F12 2000rpm on a H100i v2 as primary front intake and the same fan on top as exhaust. Is this giving me sufficient airflow for this case. I have 1 spare fan space at the top, 2 80mm at the rear. My plan is to OC the i7-7700k. Should all 3 fans be run off PWM or should the exhaust fan be attached just to Corsair Link and the 2 radiator fans/intake PWM? My gfx card is the EVGA 1080ti SC Black.

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Sarofendor

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I have the same case. I reckon you should only PWM the rear exhaust fan if you have the fan headers, but it doesn't really matter. The ones on the radiator need PWM though. Plug them into the CPU fan header using a Y splitter. That should be sufficient airflow for everything else. Nice build, by the way!
 

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Thanks for the answer, I have plenty of room to manoeuvre with the strix z270g so that is good. I have the Chromax black clips for the sides of the fans so I was thinking of going Push/Pull with the IIPC NF-F12s on the radiator (5 in total). I assume this would generally be overkill? Most people I see using these fans generally just have a push going which is recommended by Noctua however I do want to be that guy with cool looking Noctuas. :^)