Fan location question

[Camilo Velasquez]

Hello guys. This is my fan setup in a cooler master k380 case. Front bottom built in fan, cooler master hyper 212 evo, 2 120 mm 69 cfm attached to the cooler, and another one of the same at the top rear thus, making a 3 fan tunnel.

I bought a 5th sickle flow and installed it on the windowed side panel, very close to the gtx 970, blowing air to the inside of the case.

My question is, will it help cooling that way or would it be better to make it extract air? I don't know if it might cause some sort of revolving effect with the hot air coming out of of the gpu or what. Thx

 

[ww1superstar]

If the fan on the side panel is on the bottom half of the tower, make it intake. If the fan on the side panel is on the top half of the tower, make it exhaust. The reason for this is because, even if it may help your CPU, it will destroy air flow making a higher risk of GPU and motherboard over heating.

 

[Camilo Velasquez]

Thx for replying so quick. I'd say the fan is located just in the middle of the panel, very slightly to the bottom. From what you said, I did well in making it intake. I will have to work and monitor temps and see if it actually helps.