Air flow direction question

I read one post by goldfish where he says air out is better than air in. I just bought a CoolerMaster case for my quad build. It has by default a front and left side intake fan with a rear outflow all @ 120mm. I can add another 120mm fan on the left side, an 80mm on the right, two 120mm on the top and one 120mm on the bottom. As I'm going to be pushing the CPU to the max with folding, what would be the best config for the top and bottom fans? In or out? Thanks all.

Oh, I have the stock Intel Q6600 HSF which seems to performing well enough with 3 cores maxed out at 55C and a 7600GT soon to be an 8800GT or better. The front intake also blows over the hard drives, three of them.

 

Thanks Halo, my PSU is bottom mounted with one 120 going out the back. I'm not sure why the case was made this way but it sounds like the reasoning behind that is to keep the PSU from sucking in hot air all the time which reduces it's life from what I've read.

The drives are much cooler now with active air flow, barely lukewarm to the touch as before they were barely bearable to the touch, I don't know how they survived! Good idea to separate them if one can.

Ya, there's cable snaps that I can use to route the cables next to the chassis and out of the way. I'll also wrap up the unused PSU cables and tuck them away in the 5 1/4" bay, tons of room in there.

Right now with an open side and all 4 core pinned, the Q6600 CPU is at 55C, I'll let you know what happens after I button up the case but not today. :drink

 

Same question here ... i have a normal CASE that i tried to modify....


this is the normal case : http://www.evomag.ro/imagini/Produse/NEXSTAR.jpg

this is my "modded" case : http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim4104tw2.jpg

i want to mention that the only fan that blows air directly in front of the cPU fan is the one from the top....
the sidepanel fan blows air right onto the heatsink.
btw, i drilled the top of the case so i could apply the top fan.... and also i made some holes in the frontpanel for better air intake. The sidepanel cooler is placed on the outside cuz it wouln't fit next to the CPU heatsink

do you find anything wrong with the way i placed the airstream ? if so , by all means, tell me how to make it more efficient

my temps are , after 10 hours of playing and idling
CPU 46 C
GPU 44 C
PWM 48 C
MOBO 37 C
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2000mhz) + AMD64 FReezer PRO fan / Abit KN9 nForce4 Ultra / nVidia Geforce7600GT

 

Only problem is that it would "take" the air that is meant to go into the CPU fan..

http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim4110ek2.jpg

 

I think that Halo is right. The top fan will only extract the warm air from the top of the case,and will not interfere with the CPU cooling.

 

well, i'll do that and monitor the changes... thx guys :major