Direction for side mounted case fans?

[HomerThompson]

For side mounted case fans, I should obviously have them setup as intakes for blower style reference cooled graphics cards, correct? But what about for a video card using axial fan cooling that's dumping the heat back into my case? Seems like that would dump the heat downward towards my power supply at the bottom, so in that case am I better off positioning a side case fan near the video card as an exhaust? Seems like that would screw up cooling to the CPU at the top of the case though. But would using the side case fan as an intake create a lot of turbulence and trap the GPU's hot exhaust in the bottom of my case? Using an NZXT Source 210 with two 120mm intake fans at the front and a 120mm exhaust at back, but I can add two fans at the top and one at the side of the case also. Not sure if it makes more sense to go with a blower or axial cooled video card in this case.

 

[plaintuts]

Put exhaust on the top, intake on the side..

Hot air will circulate on the top part of the case because it's lighter.

 

[HomerThompson]

Will one 120mm top exhaust and one 120mm side intake be enough to overcome dual axial fans pushing the hot air down? Or will this be ineffective without a second 120mm top exhaust?

 

[plaintuts]

It will be fine..

You just need to circulate the air inside the case, but get another exhaust if you can.

 

[TheMagicalWallaby]

Front, Bottom, Side = intake

Top, Rear = exhaust

 

[HomerThompson]

Oops, sorry I forgot to pick a best solution.