The best air cooler for a CPU in 2025 is the Noctua NH-D15 G2. It combines loads of heatpipes with excellent fans and the latest design to optimise performance and minimise noise.

Choosing the right CPU cooler for your PC is important, since it's the only component that prevents your processor from melting. Here's how to choose one.

No one wants their CPU toasted to an eight-core crisp! Keep yours chill with the right CPU cooler. Here's how to make sense of PC air cooling, water cooling, stock coolers, and even custom loops.

At the heart of CORSAIR's A115 High-Performance Tower CPU Air Cooler are six 6mm heat pipes and a high-efficiency copper cold plate, capable of handling CPUs with up to 270W TDP.

We've seen some meaty CPU air coolers in the past: Noctua has its 3.3-pound fanless cooler, there's Thermalright's 4.1-pound True Copper passive heatsink, and CoolerMaster's 1.9-pound V8.

Cooler Master has just taken the wraps off of a couple of next-gen CPU coolers with the introduction of the new G11 AIO and V8 3DVC, both capable of keeping high-end CPUs cool with up to 300W.

Still, this is the first time we've seen an air cooler handle Intel's flagship Xeon W CPU, the W9 3495X. This is a 56-core, 112-thread with a base power consumption of 350W but 420W under load.