Air flow is meh, but if that is a concern you shouldn't buy this anyway. I picked one of these up for a buddy who wanted to move from console to PC. I did do a few things to it first, I did a fresh install of Windows 10, I added another 8gb of ram. Updated Windows and drivers, there is no XMP option so if you want to upgrade the ram to lets say 3200 you'll likely need to use Ryzen master to hit those speeds. He primarily wants to play Rust and Apex Legends. This smokes Apex Legends at 1080p, drop the settings and Shaders a bit and its an easy 120 FPS. I played around with settings on Rust and set it to what I would call 'medium' settings and it was hitting 100 FPS.Once again these settings are WITH the added 8gb of ram for Dual Channel (Highly recommended.)