Switching out fans in my Corsair 600t

[diablopath]

So, I'm playing with the aesthetics and the airflow of my case.

It has 2 200mm fans with boring white LEDs in them, also only 76 CFM, that I want to change out. One, on the front, is intake. The one on the top is exhausted. It also has another 120mm exhaust fan.

The 200mm fans are hard to replace as they're 20mm, and most 200mm ones I see are 30mm. So, I'm going to put a Cooler Master Mega Flow in as front intake, and I'm going to slap two 120mm fans in place of the 200mm on top (which my case does allow, thankfully).

Additionally, I was thinking about replacing the 120mm exhaust fan, and then adding two more fans on the side panel. My question about these are:

The ones I plan on mounting on the side should be intake, correct? The side panel has room for four of them, so I'm not sure where I'll be able to put them. I think my Hyper 212 will prevent me from mounting them on the left side, so they'll likely end up on the right. This will push the air just behind the CPU fan, which is then pushing that air towards the heatsink.

Should I mount the top 120mm fans as intake, as well? Even though, right now, the 200mm there is set to exhaust? I'm just trying to figure out the optimal solution here.

[Wackman3000]

So, I'm playing with the aesthetics and the airflow of my case.

It has 2 200mm fans with boring white LEDs in them, also only 76 CFM, that I want to change out. One, on the front, is intake. The one on the top is exhausted. It also has another 120mm exhaust fan.

The 200mm fans are hard to replace as they're 20mm, and most 200mm ones I see are 30mm. So, I'm going to put a Cooler Master Mega Flow in as front intake, and I'm going to slap two 120mm fans in place of the 200mm on top (which my case does allow, thankfully).

Additionally, I was thinking about replacing the 120mm exhaust fan, and then adding two more fans on the side panel. My question about these are:

The ones I plan on mounting on the side should be intake, correct? The side panel has room for four of them, so I'm not sure where I'll be able to put them. I think my Hyper 212 will prevent me from mounting them on the left side, so they'll likely end up on the right. This will push the air just behind the CPU fan, which is then pushing that air towards the heatsink.

Should I mount the top 120mm fans as intake, as well? Even though, right now, the 200mm there is set to exhaust? I'm just trying to figure out the optimal solution here.

While I'm no expert on this, I would imagine that since heat rises you would probably want your top fan to be an exhaust fan, along with your rear fans as the front ones are intake and blowing cool air in while the rear exhausts the hot stuff.

Side fans I have no idea, as I've never had one or the need to put one in.

[LiquidRain]

Here comes spoil-sport-Liquid with his usual barrage of dollars-and-sense questions!

Do you really need so many fans?
Are you having heat problems?
Do you overclock like mad?
Why are your current fans not working out for you?
Are your current fans too noisy?
You know all those CFM specs are marketing bullshit anyway unless you're looking at Noctua fans right?
Do you do any fan controlling? Either auto through the motherboard (e.g. ASUS E.Z.Fan) or through software? (e.g. SpeedFan)

To give you an idea of what's really required of your cooling, here's what I have:

3.7GHz overclocked Core i5 2500k
Radeon 6970 with internal fans (they don't blow outwards)
120mm PSU fan at the top
120mm Scythe SlipStream M exhaust fan at the back
180mm SilverStone intake at the front

And everything runs extremely cool with all the fans turned down to ~6v (about 50% speed), spun up as required by the motherboard/GPU when temps rise.

[diablopath]

Here comes spoil-sport-Liquid with his usual barrage of dollars-and-sense questions!

Do you really need so many fans?
Are you having heat problems?
Do you overclock like mad?
Why are your current fans not working out for you?
Are your current fans too noisy?
You know all those CFM specs are marketing bullshit anyway unless you're looking at Noctua fans right?
Do you do any fan controlling? Either auto through the motherboard (e.g. ASUS E.Z.Fan) or through software? (e.g. SpeedFan)

To give you an idea of what's really required of your cooling, here's what I have:

3.7GHz overclocked Core i5 2500k
Radeon 6970 with internal fans (they don't blow outwards)
120mm PSU fan at the top
120mm Scythe SlipStream M exhaust fan at the back
180mm SilverStone intake at the front

And everything runs extremely cool with all the fans turned down to ~6v (about 50% speed), spun up as required by the motherboard/GPU when temps rise.

My PC runs a bit hotter than I want it too. Additionally, I don't like the white LEDs, so in addition to those fans not pushing as much air as it seems like I'd want, I will be getting blue ones for aesthetics.

The two I want to add in my side panel are, admittedly, more cosmetic than practical.

Yes, my case has a built in fan controller. The CPU fans and rear exhaust are attached to the motherboard, everything else is on the controller.

[LiquidRain]

Well, my usual recommended fans are Scythe Slip Stream M and/or L. You also can't go wrong with Noctua. I'm quickly banging out this post at work, so for links you'll have to go fish in the recommended hardware OP. :(

[Xerxes]

Like Rain said. Can't go wrong with Scythe slipstream. Think Newegg has them on sale this weekend. I was going to fan out my computer. But the heat vs the noise came to mind. It's quiet now even while gaming but I think I have space for like 4 more fans maybe? Them decibels would add up fast for a machine not doing that bad. It is on my upgrade list for next year.