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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 not consider a CPU air cooler in 2025?

Air dried
Photo of Thermal Grizzly TG Putty

Thermal Grizzly TG Putty review

By Nick Evanson last updated

Putty problems I wanted cooler VRAM chips in my graphics card but now they're stone cold.

Putty problems
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
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 screenshot of a video on BiliBilli showing an air conditioning unit attached to a PC with Nvidia, AMD and Intel stickers.

The definition of overkill: Cooling an RTX 4090 to a claimed 20°C with a household air conditioning unit

By Andy Edser published

News At least it's on wheels.

News
A Noctua NH-L12S cooler installed on a motherboard.

Noctua NH-L12S review

By Jacob Ridley published

Lil' chill A classic low-profile air cooler still worth a look in 2025.

Lil' chill
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
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?

News
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
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