For 22 years (till 2022), I only used air coolers. Stock Intel and AMD coolers and a cheap Cooler Master air cooler were enough to keep each of my processors (up to the Ryzen 5 1600) cool enough. When ...

Much like when you exercise, the harder your processor works, the hotter it gets, making a CPU cooler one of the most important investments you can make. Choose the wrong cooling solution and you risk ...

Cryorig has won many awards for their high-end air cooling products, pushing the limits of what is possible for air cooling and delivering some of the best aesthetics the market has ever seen. Now ...

(And those "water coolers" that sit right on top of the CPU are just stupid gimmicks.) But if it's a large radiator and fan setup, then it can of course cool much better than an air cooler of limited ...

Whether you’re after impressive CPU overclocks or just looking to build a PC that's quiet under load, you should choose your cooler carefully. Picking the best CPU cooler for your processor is a key ...

Sarfraz is an avid PC enthusiast who has a decade of experience in PC hardware. He has written extensively on all types of consumer PC components and peripherals on Xtremegaminerd since the time when ...

You need to cool your PC’s processor no matter what, but you can do so in different ways—with a heatsink and one or more fans for old-school air cooling, or with an AIO liquid-cooled setup as seems to ...

My build in 2019 went with a beefier version of what I've been using for cooling now for well over a decade-- a tower heat sink, but it's only needing to cool a 3700X at stock + PBO. I preferred that ...

I’ve seen some pretty bonkers looking CPU coolers over the years, but this one is really freaking cool. Aerocool has designed this compact CPU air cooler to fit in what looks like a really tall AIO ...

Invest in upgrades that are worth it, not the ones that feel nice to own ...

Cooler Master has made it this long in the aftermarket PC parts game because of one major thing, and that is the ability to adapt to what is new in the rest of the world. What I mean to say is that if ...