Regarding Case Fans for cooling of cpu and graphic card

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I recently installed an Hyper evo 212 x on my cpu (i5-4670k). And the temps are now pretty good as I dont know why but earlier GTA 5 with stock cooler used to go upto whooping 86 c now it barely reached 60 and gives constant 55-56 after hours of gaming.
However Iam worried about the airflow as my case is an average Cooler Master Elite 311. Therefore I had one Case cooler Cooler Master Sickle Flow X which I installed As a Rear Exhaust and a very generic and bad cooler master fan which came as a stock on side panel as intake which I will change. In my case there is mainly three slots for fans front,side and rear.
I want suggestions from you guys as to what 120mm case fan I should buy(just two as Iam keeping Sickleflow x), and what should be the arrangement of the fans i.e which fan to be installed where and whether exhaust or intake. I dont mind fan getting noisy and the price should not be something that may blow my budget which is upto 18$ each fan.
Your help will be highly appreciated.
 
Its generally recommended to buy the same fans for intake. Its fine no matter which orientation you keep, just as long as its positive. Pick up a 2 pack of AF 120's for 26 bucks and you will be set. You can have them at the front or sides, as long as they are intake.
 


are there anyother fans that you suggest?
 


can i get two xtraflo instead of af120's. Noise is not my concern here.
 


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608004

these noctuas are the same as the phanteks but twice the price. I have phantek fans all over my case . I have had this discussion here at tomsharware before. phanteks awesome. I would look no further....the corsair fans being suggested to are good but for the same price I would go for the phanteks. noctua and phantek fans are the best and are used on big air cpu coolers the rival and sometime beet all in one liquid coolers. the move atot of air quietly. a simple google search will ease your mind of this. either way you have all the information you need from all of posts on this thread

 


problem is its not available in my country 🙁 . how about this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835856015
 

As previously stated, you can use any 2 same fans as long as they are intake. You can go with two xtraflos if you want. Or the phanteks fans if you want them to fit your budget.
 


Ive decided with af 120s thank you for suggestions :)