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Originally Posted by Akinari
Unless the rear of your tower has access to cooler air (for example, rear is facing a window) there's not much of a difference compared to having your intake at the front. It's best to have the rear and top as exhaust if you're using a larger air cooler as most HSF fans blow towards the rear.
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If you have a video card (or two) heating up the inside of the case, and a pair of mechanical drives in front of the front intake, the CPU is being cooled by all that hot air. It's not ALWAYS the case, but sometimes it works better to reverse things. It's definitely worth trying both ways before settling down on something.