Question Playing around with some cooling.

[Clariska]

Hi i am busy playing around with cooling.We'll i'll give everyone the run down

I builded my pc back in 2012(i think).It's just an entry level for low level gaming(cept for Dragon age 3 )
My Rig is as follow
Cpu:AMD 4170-black edition stock
Heat Sink:Zalman CNPS5X
Mobo:Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Case:Cooler Master Elite 430 Black
PSU:Cooler master 500w
Memory:4 GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz clocked to 1867 clocked through Bios
GFX:Sapphire Ati Radeon 6570 1gb ddr 3 clocked to 675 gpu clock and 1000 memory clock.

My temp on idle are 32-34C and in game it climbs up to 49-50C(summer here)Running prime 95 or occt it goes up to 58C.According to other articles it should be fine on 61C but i believe 55C max.

Now i eventually got some fans for xmas but having some cooling problems after adding them.Just added thermal paste when i installed the fans(and yes i know how to add it )
How should i add my fans to the top of the case consider the heat sink stand upright.Should i add the one closer to the optical drive to suck from outside and the one closer to the back to blow out of the case?(Hope this makes sense sorry my English aint the best)

Then the front fan....Should it suck air in or blow out.It was installed to blow out the front but i turned it around to blow onto my hdd..

I might add my electric server fan but that means i have to cut my case and i don't really wanna go to that extreme 😀

 

[20salmon]

You want an intake fan drawing in cold air onto the CPU cooler, and an exhaust fan behind it so the hot air from the CPU leaves the case. Other than that, make sure you have positive air pressure (more inntake fans than outtake), and avoid intake fans next to another exhaust fan, or the PSU exhaust, so you don't suck warm air into the case. I would use the front and top as inntake, and the back fans as exhaust.