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what is better for air flow? 3x120mm or 2x240mm? 'top and fornt'tnks

MasterRaceMcqueen
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I mean 3x120mm=360mm whereas 2x140mm=280mm so... If you're only going off of that the 120s would be the way to go I guess, provided of course you have a way of plugging in all of them. 

edit: but imo that amount of fans is too much, unless you want to go 'Skunkworks' and fill your case with big rads and stuff. Personally I'd take the 140s.

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I'm going to assume that you could probably move a little more air with the 3x120's, but it would be at the cost of a lot of extra noise.

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with the 3 120's you can off set your air flow to reduce dust (2 in 1 out)

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Depends on the fans in question and where they're being used. Generally, 120mm's can perform better at the cost of higher noise.

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