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An air cooler from Noctua and a liquid cooler from Arctic on a blue background with the PC Gamer Recommended badge in the upper right.

Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.

Cool Breeze
Be Quiet and Noctua CPU air coolers on an orange background with the PC Gamer Recommends badge in the upper right hand side.

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2025: keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Air dried Quiet, reliable and affordable—why wouldn't you consider a CPU air cooler in 2025?

Air dried
An Arctic Liquid Freezer III and Deepcool Gammaxx S240 pair of AIO liquid CPU coolers against a split grey background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo in the top right corner

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks

By Nick Evanson last updated

Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.

Wetware
A Be Quiet! cooler installed on a motherboard inside a gaming PC.

Air coolers are still cool

By Jacob Ridley published

Whoosh Liquid, smishquid.

Whoosh
Two of the best PC fans side by side on a blue background

Best PC fans in 2025: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Hot Tip The best PC fans will keep your gaming PC cool and quiet.

Hot Tip
The Thermaltake's new liquid cooler with a screen to display images and videos

You've heard of a CPU cooler screen, but have you heard of a *curved* CPU cooler screen? Apparently it has 'unmatched performance and visual appeal'

By James Bentley published

News What would you display on it?

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The Noctua NH-D15 G2 all put together.

Noctua NH-D15 G2 review

By Antony Leather published

Finely-tuned Great cooling and wild engineering.

Finely-tuned
The Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 in situ

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 review

By Antony Leather published

Smart air An attractive compact air cooler that’s fairly quiet too.

Smart air
A glowing white fan with the Arctic logo on top.

Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 A-RGB review

By Antony Leather published

Chip chiller Popular for good reason.

Chip chiller
A rendered image of a server rack, showing three Arctic S12038 cooling fans in a row

Arctic's new fan-cooled fans might be for servers but I want a gaming rig full of them for the ultimate cooling kudos

By Nick Evanson published

news That and total hearing loss. Say what?

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