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    How to keep your gaming PC cool for best performance

    Oct 05, 2021 5 minutes
    BY IAN PAUL

    The desktop PC has two major nemeses: dust and heat. Heat can be tough to diagnose since you can’t see it the way you can with dust. The key to avoiding any heat-related issues (besides regularly cleaning your PC) is sticking with some tried-and-true principles of cooling. If you follow the basics, then adapt them to your local environment and the demands of your PC, you should be just fine.

    HOW TO MEASURE TEMPERATURES

    The best way to easily measure if your PC is getting too hot is to monitor the temperatures reported by the CPU and GPU. If these two components are staying within their recommended temperature ranges, then everything else should be just fine.

    For CPUs, this means keeping your processor under 80 degrees

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