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Arctic 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
Two of the best liquid coolers on a red background with the PC Gamer recommended badge in the top right.

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

By Jacob Ridley last updated

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

Wetware
A CPU cooler on a GPU with a thumbs-up in front

This tech DIYer swapped their graphics card's cooling for a CPU cooler because why not? Also it actually works

By Jacob Fox published

News I don't know whether I'd recommend doing this on an RTX 5090, though.

News
A Samsung and Johns Hopkins APL Peltier effect cooling device being held up by a hand with a lab glove, with various electronic gubbins going on in the background

Samsung's new Peltier cooling tech is more efficient and less wasteful and could be a great for keeping a power-hungry CPU chilly

By Jacob Fox published

News The Peltier effect seems like wizardry to me, but I won't question what works.

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The Antec Vortex View prototype liquid cooler on display at Antec's booth at Computex 2025.

Pump noise, what pump noise? Asetek's new liquid cooler pump is so quiet 'it's on a level where you can't hear it'

By Jacob Ridley published

Computex And it's still good for CPUs up to 400 W, apparently.

Computex
A 3D printed custom PC case build fashioned to look like a triumphantly-posed Palico from Capcom's Monster Hunter series. It has a long sword strapped to its backpack. A GPU features prominently in the sword's hilt. This was photographed on the show floor at Computex 2025.

Computex 2025 made me realise I have no time for extravagant PC parts, just give me a simple, solid design and function

By Jacob Fox published

Computex And yes, I'm including RGB on my hit list.

Computex
A gaming PC sat on a desk with purple RGB lighting on the fans and light bar enabled.

Arctic Freezer 36 review

By Jacob Ridley published

Top notch An all-round excellent air cooler.

Top notch
A Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex on a desk and installed on a gaming PC.

Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex review

By Jacob Ridley published

Apex Looks a million bucks, but costs a whole lot less.

Apex
An Intel Core i7 14700K with an Intel Raptor Lake branded box.

Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I'm just happy I'm not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics

By Jacob Fox published

News Leave it to the engineers. And the YouTube DIY'ers.

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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