Chassis Fan placement - Side vs Front

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Looking for thoughts on specifically whether there is a difference between "two fans in front" and "a fan in front and a fan or two fans in the side" when it comes to airflow..... is there a actual benefit to one over the other?

Trying to make a decision on a new case and almost all I see are "windowed wonders", extremely expensive "led wonders" or terrible small cases. Atm my choice is Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-03 or Corsair Carbide Series 300R if that matters.
 
Go 2xF & 1xR.

300R is pretty expensive, should be something better in that price range.

Can you provide a list of components atx/matx mb, drives, cooling etc you want to stick in the case?
 
Thinking of this atm from wootware, still agonizing over whether to do it now or wait a bit etc. My thinking is with a good case/fans and no overclocking I should be fine heat-wise with no need for closed loop cooling.

Corsair Carbide Series 300 R1328
or
Carbide Series SPEC-03 R1038

Gigabyte B450 AORUS Elite Ryzen ATX Desktop Motherboard R1999
G.Skill FlareX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz Black Desktop Memory R2679
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Octa-Core 3.7GHz (4.3GHz Turbo) R5399
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Currently on a old case with a Intel DH67BL and a 2600 i7 atm, it's actually fine but in the summer usb devices randomly disconnect-reconnect and I don't know if I should worry or if it's because I stuck a PCI-e 3 GPU (1050ti) on a PCI-e 2 slot and it starts drawing too much power for the board or something. Yes I would be moving from this to the new system.

EDIT: clarity
 
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You're not being very clear here, you mention a 2600 system and then lower down 2700x? What size mb is the 2600 on? are you dumping the 2600 for r7 2700x???
 
ponder said:
You're not being very clear here, you mention a 2600 system and then lower down 2700x? What size mb is the 2600 on? are you dumping the 2600 for r7 2700x???
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Is the edit clear enough?
 
So there is no real benefit to having (all inward) a few fans on the side as well as one in front over two in front? I find a lot of conflicting information regarding this.
 
I have 2 places for fans in my 11 years old case on the back and on the front, my system board allow for one or even few more, but I am not using front one cause of all that thing. My next mobo will use only one fan and I am happy with it totally.
 
ponder said:
Yes. Get a fractal meshify case, excellent airflow.

Note the supported mb sizes,
https://www.wootware.co.za/fractal-...teel-micro-atx-mid-tower-desktop-chassis.html
https://www.wootware.co.za/fractal-...hite-steel-atx-mid-tower-desktop-chassis.html
https://www.wootware.co.za/fractal-...lack-steel-atx-mid-tower-desktop-chassis.html
https://www.wootware.co.za/fractal-...lack-steel-atx-mid-tower-desktop-chassis.html
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Got their Focus G, which shares a very similar layout. The ventilation / cooling is good. Did the heat generation versus required mass flow of air calculations first before selecting the fan layout. The results were not far off the calculations, indicating that there is probably not much resistance to the airflow.

Bonus feature is that it is very light. This means that it is easy to transport when used with a carry rig.
 
I ended up getting the Corsair 300 for free (HW swap) and now I have:
Two front intake (HDD's one and case other)
Two intake just below the CPU air cooler for the GPU and potentially NVME (somewhere far in the future)
One top back out
Two top out


Now I'm thinking though.... would it not be better to turn the one in middle top around and make it an intake? Might help give the CPU cooler which is currently idling at 30 degrees. Yes I know 30 is fantastic but summer is coming.....

Hyper 212 on a 8700 if that matters.
 

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