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First of all, let me say sorry if i posted in the wrong section.
Moving on, few days later Im going to clean my pc and its evil dust. But while doing that I have a few questions regarding airflow and fans in the casing. 

First, regarding the airflow of the system let me describe my setup a little bit.

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First of, im using a corsair casing.... (i dont quite remember the model sorry...)

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This picture shows the internal of the CPU (please ignore the dust... its the very reason for this post)

Having multiple HDD and a SSD for main OS

Asus xonar essence STX

Leadtek GTX760

Intel 3770k with twin tower phanteks 3rd party cooling

16gb worth of ram

1200w silverstone PSU

 

Now from that picture there are 2fans behind the harddisk drive bay (intake) 1 fan on top (drive bay) intake also...

Weak fan at the exhaust ventilation which is not that strong. 

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This is the side panel which are set to intake to draw air in.

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This is the top fans set to exhaust air outwards.

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this shows the cooler for the CPU
its Exhaust <- fan <- rad < -fan <- rad <- fan

while having the fans so close to the rads at the top exhausting air
 

Now my question is firstly, the side panels is it better to keep it to intake? or change it to exhaust or remove them?

Secondly, the fans near CPU cooler, is it clustered too closely together? should i remove some fans? so to create some room for air to travel? also, whenever i touch the rads i dont feel much heat but my temperature idles around 44-50 degree Celsius.

 Guys i really need help and opinions on this, wanna try to utilize what i have but it ended in a mess...

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The internal of the CPU? Don't you mean the internals of the PC?

 

And the cable management is terrible and the dust is unreal.

The PSU is overkill.

 

Go get a new case, or redo the cable management. Fit everything in there better. Clean out the dust and make it clean.

A single intake fan in the front and two fans in the side/top to exhaust is enough combined with the chassis fan to exhaust some more heat is enough.

 

Good luck

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The cable management is ok in terms of not restricting the air flow.

 

I'd remove the side panel fans completely, it would also make the pc more quiet.

 

Check if there's alot dust in the heatsink fins, otherwise you are good to go I think.

CPU: Intel i7 3970X @ 4.7 GHz  (custom loop)   RAM: Kingston 1866 MHz 32GB DDR3   GPU(s): 2x Gigabyte R9 290OC (custom loop)   Motherboard: Asus P9X79   

Case: Fractal Design R3    Cooling loop:  360 mm + 480 mm + 1080 mm,  tripple 5D Vario pump   Storage: 500 GB + 240 GB + 120 GB SSD,  Seagate 4 TB HDD

PSU: Corsair AX860i   Display(s): Asus PB278Q,  Asus VE247H   Input: QPad 5K,  Logitech G710+    Sound: uDAC3 + Philips Fidelio x2

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ok thx for the tip i guess ill overhaul the parts tomorrow

what about my heat sink.... it dont feel much heat being transfered through the whole heat sink

Take it off the CPU, take off the fans and clean them with compressed air and do the same to the heatsink.

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You have bit too many fans IMO but thats personal preference. The dust is probably from sidepanel fans since I don't see dust filters on them. Remember that every single intake needs dust filter. I'd use 2 intakes and 2 exhaust and if that raises your temps too much (over 5C) then add one more intake for most hearing component (GPU most likely).

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so i opened up my pc and clean most of the dust washed the 3rd party cooler removed some fans (side panel fan removed) and did a bit of cable management... overall when i boot up, the temperature dropped like 4-8 degree Celsius...

heres the picture =D

thanks guys for giving opinions

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