Parimad CPU õhujahutid

The best CPU air cooler will let you enjoy the full power of your processor without having to resort to pricey liquid cooling systems. These air coolers are compact, efficient, affordable, and they get the job done with the minimum of fuss. 

Improper or insufficient cooling not only affects performance but also the stability of your entire gaming rig. The most common solution is air cooling, but if you want to be fancy, All-in-one liquid coolers are a great choice too for truly low temps and less noise. 

There's a lot to consider when shopping around for the best CPU air cooler. In this situation, however, you can go with 'bigger is better,' just make sure to it actually fits inside your PC case. If you're an overclocker, there's a cooler for you as well as folks who like to spice up their rigs with some flashy RGB. 

Below I picked out six of the best CPU air coolers from the dozens I tested for over a year or so. I made sure to pick coolers for almost every budget that will fit different cases. This way, you're not from choosing a very expensive option to only a slightly less expensive option. 

Best CPU air cooler

The Deepcool AS500 received worthy attention when it was released, but the AS500 Plus with its additional fan elevates it to the point where it can compete with any single tower cooler on the market. 

At the same time, it undercuts competitors in price. There aren't many dual-fan ARGB supporting coolers at this price. Even if you spent double the money on a premium single tower cooler, your cooling performance won't be a lot better.

Its cooling ability belies its compact dimensions. Only more expensive dual-tower coolers beat it, and even then, not by a whole lot. Its dual-fan design no doubt helps. It’s also surprisingly quiet. Even when pushed hard the cooler doesn’t get excessively loud. 

Cooling and low noise levels are welcome, then add to that great build quality and subtle ARGB good looks and there’s nothing to complain about. It even comes with its own ARGB controller, and there’s a white version too if you like.

The Deepcool AS500 Plus punches above its weight and price. It cools very well, stays quiet, offers great build quality, and has a subtle ARGB splash with its own controller. Finally, it offers great value for money relative to many dual-fan single tower coolers. Short of stressing it with a heavily overclocked high-end processor, the AS500 Plus ticks all the boxes. Highly recommended. 

If the brand name didn’t already give it away, the Be Quiet Pure Rock 2 really is quiet. It’s a single tower cooler equipped with the company's highly regarded Pure Wings 2 PWM fan which carries a low 26.8 dB(A) noise rating. That means it's very quiet indeed. It feels really solid too, an indicator of good build quality and it comes in at a low price.

We wouldn’t describe the Pure Rock 2 as the most beautiful cooler on the market. But if you do have a windowed case, you could consider the black version which is certainly more attractive than the plain aluminum finish of the base version. 

The Pure Rock 2 is primarily designed to cool—unseen and unheard. It's rated to cool CPUs with a 150W TDP. Though perhaps this is a touch optimistic, but that’s down to the CPU manufacturers and their 'real' TDPs. An Intel Core i5 11600K or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X ei tekita Pure Rock 2 jaoks probleeme.

Pure Rock 2 hoiab teie kiibi jahedana ja vaikselt kõige muu jaoks peale tipptasemel protsessorite. Kui te ei ole blingist huvitatud ja soovite midagi, mis on komplekti kuuluvatest jahutitest samm edasi, on Pure Rock 2 suurepärane valik. See jahtub silmist, meelest ja kuuldekaugusest eemal.

The Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black is considered by many to be the best air cooler on the market. We love it too, and it's an easy inclusion on our list of recommended coolers. 

It performs brilliantly and has excellent fans that are a welcome black color instead of that rather unsightly beige and maroon (vabandust, Jacob.) Its build quality is fantastic and Noctua's packaging, accessories, and documentation are second to none. 

Tõesti, ainult 360 mm AIO jahutid ületavad seda. Kui soovite õhujahutit, mis suudab hakkama saada mis tahes turul oleva tarbija CPU-ga, võite leida selle, mis sobib Noctua lipulaevaga, kuid te ei leia midagi, mis seda tõeliselt ületaks.

Under normal operation, the NH-D15 can be considered truly silent. When pushed hard it becomes louder than you might expect, such as you might get when hammering out an AVX load, but we don’t mind having some optional cooling headroom when you need it. Even a 5GHz+ Core i9 11900K tulemuseks on mängimise ajal vaikne töötamine. 

So why isn't it number one on our list? Its expense, and the perhaps sheer size, are the only things that count against it. 

Notably, Noctua has a long tradition of adding support for new sockets. An investment in an NH-D15 Chromax Black means you'll have a top-shelf cooler that will last you for many years.

The Cryorig C7 has been on the market for some time, but it's still been updated to handle newer sockets. It’s perfect for a truly compact small form factor system thanks to its 47mm height and adherence to 'keep-out' zones, where it will not interfere in any way with other system components.

The C7 destroys the stock Intel cooler. It's rated for up to 100W but is better suited to 65W class CPUs up to about six or eight cores. This leaves it a bit of headroom for turbo bursts. If you're overclocking, or using a high core-count processor, you can give it a pass, but that's to be expected. With the right CPU it will stay surprisingly quiet for its compact size. Its top flow design will help to cool the VRM and M.2 SSD, too, something that can be neglected in compact systems.

The Cryorig C7 is a niche cooler, no doubt about it, but for the tiniest builds, the cute little C7 does an admirable job. If you want a little bit of extra TDP headroom, there are copper and graphene-coated versions that feature TDP ratings of up to 125W, though they're more expensive. The C7 is a great choice for the smallest form factor systems.

Noctua’s NH-P1 passive cooler is very much a niche product and one that fans of quiet computing have been looking forward to for some time. It's expensive, bulky, and generally limited to CPUs in the 65W range. Sounds like a dud? Hell no. its appeal may be limited, but if you're a user who values silence above anything else, then the NH-P1 will be exactly what you're looking for.

The NH-P1 is capable of cooling even high-end CPUs using only natural convection. That's sort of what makes it a big deal in the cooling world. It does this through a vastly disparate design from your usual chip chiller.

The NH-P1 also features a grid of cut-outs horizontally through the cooler design, which helps air flow naturally across the cooler and, importantly, sap away the heat transferred into the fins from the heat pipes.

The heat pipes are undoubtedly of major importance here. Sit the NH-P1 side-by-side with the NH-D15, and you'll notice they're oriented differently. The heat pipes are actually the longest along their horizontal axis, which impacts heat dispersion due to the reliance on gravity for a heat pipe to function.

The NH-P1 is a great match for something like an AMD 5700G. That way, you could omit a discrete GPU and play e-sport titles in silence. The NH-P1 will keep this class of CPU boosting to its max, but only if you have at least some airflow.

The chances are you have a rear case fan that's just a few cm away from it anyway. You can still opt to attach a fan if you want. True passive cooling, without any system fans, would require dropping to 35W class CPUs.

The NH-P1 is built for a specific purpose. Fans of quiet computing will love it. If you sleep near your PC or run a lounge room media center, the NH-P1 will ensure that your PC is truly silent. Clearly, it's not meant for everyone, though.

Loe meie täis Noctua NH-P1 ülevaade.

Keeping your CPU cool is vital, but so is overall system cooling. A cooler like the Be Quiet Dark Rock TF 2 blows air downwards, which helps to keep toasty M.2 drives and your vital motherboard VRMs running cool. This is something that can often be overlooked in AIO-cooled systems that lack good airflow over the motherboard, particularly if you have a GPU heating up your speedy NVMe drives, too.

The Dark Rock TF2 performs much like other single tower air coolers, and though it's on the pricey side, it's not unreasonably so given the inclusion of two high-quality fans. Its ability to mount a fan above or below the heatsink (or both) adds a lot of installation flexibility. You can use it in all kinds of systems from powerful gaming PCs through to compact SFF systems. 

In the Be Quiet tradition, the Dark Rock TF 2 is very quiet, particularly under low loads, and with a rating of up to 230W, it can handle all modern CPUs, though heavy overclocking will really be beyond it.

Downward blowing coolers have fallen out of favor compared to tower coolers, but with one or more hot PCIe 4.0 SSDs to cool, a motherboard needs decent airflow too. The Dark Rock TF 2 can be thought of as a system cooler, and not just a CPU cooler.

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