Recommended fan setup for coolermaster 430

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Hi, I have a CoolerMaster 430 Elite Black, I was wondering what the best setup for my fans would be. I currently have 5 case fans, one at the front for intake, two on the top as intake, the rear as exhaust and the side panel fan as exhaust also. Should I leave this setup or change it? What do you recommend? I was thinking of changing one of the top fans to exhaust and putting the other on at the bottom of the case as a exhaust so it blows air directly to my GPU, and changing the side panel fan to intake.
 

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Front intake, rear exhaust, side intake, top your choice intake or exhaust or one each.
 

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Front intake, rear exhaust, side intake, top exhaust
 

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I would run all but the rear as intake to maintain a good positive pressure. If you use quality air filters you cut dust by up to 90%+. Are you running 120's or 140's?
 

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Thanks for the reply's guys, in the end I left the front as intake, side as intake, rear as exhaust, I have two top fans which one of them is set to intake and the other set to exhaust, btw they're all 120mm.
 

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PC/Desktop
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Custom Build
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 3570k OC'd to 4.3Ghz with Hyper 212 evo.
Motherboard
Asus p8z77 V-LX
Memory
Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM 8GB DDR3 1333mhz
Graphics Card(s)
Sapphire AMD R9 290 Tri-X OC edition
Sound Card
Intergrated
Screen Resolution
1920x1080p
Hard Drives
1TB WD Caviar blue
PSU
Coolermaster VS-Series 650W Semi Modular Gold Power Supply
Case
Fractal Define R5
Cooling
4 Arctic Cooling F12 120mm Case Fans, stock intake case fan.
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Logitech MX518 & Logitech G400
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