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Need cooling setup advice

First, click HERE for the case I will be using.

I will be having 2 fans in the rear, one on the side, and one or two in the front.

My question is, how many fans can it take in the front? If it can take 2, I'll then do the following setup:

2 fans in front, both for intake
2 in rear and 1 side for outake

If I can't have two in the front, and only one, what should I do?

Should I make one intake in the front and the one on the side as well?

If you must know why so many fans, its because I need atleast one fan blowing in as an intake, and the 3 on the side will just look neat with Quad LEDS, cold cathode in the case, Lan Party motherboard, Antec PSU with Blue Leds, you get the idea...
 
This case can take 2 intakes in the front.
I would go for 2 front intakes, 1 side intake, and 2 rear exhaust...
 
2 front intakes, 2 rear exhaust, one side intake

The side intake will draw cool air in onto the HSF rather than pulling air away from the fan while it's trying to pull air down onto the heatsink.
 
I just bought this case myself. It comes with two outtake fans and a side intake fan, but they are rather loud and I'm considering replacing them as well as adding two front intake fans (one can go right in front of the HDD to keep it cool). They are all 80mm fans so if you are going for the best cooling I'd probably say go for the YS-Tech, or if you are going for low noise go for the Panasonic L1As
 
I have the black steel version of that case. I use 80mm blue LED fans as follows:

Two front intake
Two back exhaust
One side intake
 
Ok, I'll be having 2 instake at front, 1 side intake, and 2 back outtake. I might make the side an outtake if dust starts building up...
 
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