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Adding a pair of fans to my Lancool PC-K58W, exhaust or intake?

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4/11/12 at 12:36pm
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I have a Lancool PC-K58W case.

LanCool_K58W_inside.jpg

As you can see, there is already an exhaust fan in the top-left next to the CPU, and an intake fan (partially blocked by hard drives) in the bottom-right, pretty standard.
My bottom-mounted power supply's fan is directed to the bottom, since there is a grill there for a fan.

I got a good deal on a pair of 140mm fans to put in the top -- my question is, should I make them exhaust fans or intake fans, especially considering how the one intake fan now is being diminished by the hard drives right in front of it?
I will be getting a rather beefy CPU cooler tomorrow (Phanteks PH-TC14PE) for my i5-2500K, and my GPU is a GTX 680 reference design.

Any help is appreciated.
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4/11/12 at 12:40pm
You should do them as exhaust - your case is generating heat so you want to expel as much of it as possible in as quick of a time as possible.
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4/11/12 at 1:48pm
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Thanks. So just the single intake fan is fine?
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4/12/12 at 4:20am
Yep it will be fine!
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