Making Your Choice
Most cases feature at least two fans, and your CPU will be supplied with a stock cooler, but if you want to build this PC properly, you really need to upgrade both of those components.
STOCK COOLER?
A stock cooler, meaning a standard CPU cooler supplied by the chip maker, may be perfectly fine. However, this will depend on the CPU you have chosen and the amount of load you think it might have to deal with. Generally the more powerful the chip, the more heat it will produce; too much heat, that isn’t properly drawn off and expelled, could mean a shortened life for the processor. For a fairly small amount of money, an after market CPU cooler could see temperature drops of 10-15 degrees centigrade…
