Spending $300 on an AIO? Watch This First

Air cooler or AIO — which one is actually worth it for your build? I break down every CPU cooler type, explain what the specs mean, and tell you exactly which one to buy at every budget in 2026. Try the PC Builder (free, no account): https://www.maxmybuild.com Enter your budget → get a full parts list with live pricing. Cooler included. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Intro 0:29 — How coolers work (TDP & the basics) 2:02 — Air coolers explained 3:00 — AIO liquid coolers explained 3:55 — Air vs AIO: which actually wins? 5:40 — The compatibility check nobody does 7:00 — My picks at every budget 8:46 — Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 MY PICKS (affiliate links — I earn a small commission at no cost to you) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💲 Budget Air (~$35) Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE → https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thermalrig... 💲💲 Mid-Range Air (~$55) Deepcool AK620 → https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Deepcool+A... 💲💲💲 Premium Air (~$110) Noctua NH-D15 G2 → https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Noctua+NH-... 💧 Budget AIO (~$65) Arctic Liquid Freezer III 240 → https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Arctic+Liq... 💧💧 Premium AIO (~$90-100) Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 → https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Arctic+Liq... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 FULL "HOW TO CHOOSE" SERIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ How to Choose a GPU →    • Pick the Right GPU First Time, Every Time   ▶ How to Choose a CPU →    • Don't Buy a Gaming CPU Until You Watch This   ▶ How to Choose RAM →    • Your Gaming PC RAM Setup is Probably Wrong   ▶ How to Choose Storage →    • Your Next SSD Purchase Depends On This One...   ▶ How to Choose a CPU Cooler → [this video] ▶ How to Choose a PSU → [coming soon] ▶ How to Choose a Motherboard → [coming soon] ▶ How to Choose a Case → [coming soon] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PC Builder (free) → https://www.maxmybuild.com Product images © their respective manufacturers (Thermalright, DeepCool, Noctua, ARCTIC), used for product identification. #pcbuild #cpucooler #gamingpc