port selection 4 4 or 3 6

I'm going with 4 - 12" alpine type R's my total net box area is 8cu.ft. and I can have about 9.6 gross MAX.

I came up with 2 options thats i'm thinking of using. My MAX size box dimensions are 50.5 x 18 x 22 (outside dimensions)

Option #1    4 - 4" ports that are 14" long tuned at 32 hertz

Option #2    3 - 6" ports that are 23" long tuned at 32 hertz

Now i'm wondering if there will be any noticeable difference between the 2 since they have very different port areas yet tune at the same frequency. Option 1 allows me to have a smaller box which I prefer but i'm worried there may not be enough port area. Option 2 gives me more port area but also makes my box quite a bit larger.

Which do you think will give better output? I  was staying away from a slot port because it seems to take up too much box area, but if you have a idea for a slot or any other design please let me know. (i had started asking this in a different thread but the title wasn't about this so I started a new one, hope thats cool)

All help is greatly appreciated cause I wanna build this weekend

Thanks

My WinISD program keeps giving me error messages when I try to enter in the driver parameters, I may have a corrupt program. So I was just using various port calculators that took into account the xmax of the speaker, volume of the box, and tuning frequency. They kept giving me huge port areas  - 6.6 equivilent round ports per 12" woofer with extremely long ports. I came up with the 4 - 4" ports because it was similar to old boxes I used to build, but that was 10+ years ago and speakers were much different then.

Ok I ran this in Uni-Box (cool program) and they are recomending 4 - 6" ports at 34" long with 750watts. With those ports it keeps the air speed below 26 m/s. I would really like less port if possible.

What is the MAX air speed that I can have without too much port noise?

Thanks