H440 best fan setup

[King_Potato]

Hey everybody,

I recently build a new gaming PC in an NZXT H440.
My current fan setup is the 3 standard 120mm fans in the front, the standard 140mm fan in the top middle fan mount and a H80i radiator with its respective fans either side.

Now, my video card (MSI GTX 970) is getting slightly worrying temperatures (nearly 80 degrees and sometimes above) when under load. (It's overclocked by +125MHz core clock and +500MHz in memory clock.)
I noticed that turning my H80i fans up to max would decrease my GPU temperatures to a decent level.

Therefore, I decided to change the fan setup I currently have, but I'm still unsure as to where I should place all the fans.

I have the following fans at my disposal: 3x120mm standard NZXT fans, 1x140mm standard NZXT fan, 1x140mm Corsair AF140 (it has red LEDs so I prefer that one on the back), and 2x120mm fans for either side of the H80i radiator.

If it's at all possible, I would like to have a lot of answers on this; airflow is one of those topics which people can say completely different things about.

Cheers,
-King Potato

 

[ihog]

Front/bottom/side fans as intake, rear/top fans as exhaust. I prefer positive airflow as well. Have the radiator on an exhaust fan.

A side fan would be important for cooling your graphics card, but you don't have the option to mount one without modding.