If you want significal temp change i would lift the laptop as high as i can. I do have a cooling pad and I also lifted it up and I can tell you, lifting the laptop up provides better cooling than a cooling pad.

I used a cooling pad on an old laptop of mine for years. Completely safe. The fans should not be an issue unless you're using a cooling pad with industrial fans. As for efficacy, my laptop would overheat very quickly, with the cooling pad, it wouldn't. I'd only invest if you specifically have thermal problems, it won't really improve performance otherwise

For me it does not really do anything except for stopping my fans from going apeshit, but it also stops my balls from being burnt off.

For me it makes a difference, makes it run cooler. That's because the cooling system is bad to begin with and the cooling pad is decent with 5 fans that said not everyone will benifit

I literally forced myself to learn about tech things that I didn't know before I owned a gaming laptop. I was able to hit the sweet spot of my CPU (i5-8300h) and GPU (GTX 1050ti) after a few tries (more like a week of optimizing my Lenovo unit). I only installed the simplest softwares to my liking and I'm glad that they worked. Most people at school doesn't really know about optimizing stuff so I studied more hoping that I could offer some assistance to those who encountered some small and simple problems that can be solved through some troubleshoots. I tried to help some but I stopped since I encountered a BIOS problem about Dell laptops (the systems of Dell units doesn't accept any optimization that I enabled on it). I think that what I did to my laptop isn't applicable to everyone given that we have different units but I'll search for my past post soon. I am also thinking about repasting my CPU and GPU soon as well as buy a new wifi card to upgrade my laptop soon when she turns 2 years old (my baby literally haha). Don't forget to open your laptop every 6 months or so clean some of that dust within the fans! I'll just edit this with the link soon!

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Found it! I forgot that I was discussing something with a certain guy on the forums. My name is Pholax and I hope that this link can help!

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Legion-Y530-stable-undervolt-for-hot-climate/m-p/4548258?page=1#4548258

You're fine. I don't think any laptop cooling pads actually come with industrial fans. A 180mm fan should be more than safe

My laptop's temperatures never go beyond 60° Celsius after I optimized it about a year ago. My usual temps before was like 80°-90°+ under heavy load and I got scared about the heat that's why I studied for more than a month on how to take care of your laptop. My usual temps while under heavy load hovers around 55°-60° but with the cooling pad (Redragon IVY) it went down to 50°-55° cap. Casual usage at around 35°-45° and I live in the Philippines without any aircon... Don't forget to buy some external peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, or even a screen to preserve your laptop's hardware!

I have both one for the 18 area 51 and the other for the m16r1. Both are great. The v10 has higher fan speeds so if you want really good cooling go with the v10.

IETS GT600 or LLANO v13 if you don't want RGB or v12 if you want RGB

I'm happy with https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQKHWHCM

I have iets 500 with x15r1

Also buy sony inzone buds, they have good noise cancelation. XD

my bad, corrected.

Hoping someone here can help. My son owns the llano V12 Laptop Cooling Pad for his Alienware laptop. It works great. However, he's studying engineering and often needs to run CAD and other heavy duty programs while away from home, and the llano doesn't fit in his bag and just isn't practical for taking on the go. Does anyone have a suggestion for a more portable cooling pad? I understand that with a smaller, more portable size, the cooling won't be close to what the llano provides, but I'm hoping to surprise him with something that might work "well enough" away from home.

>I wanted to maximize the vibes and cooling performance u/theoneandonlysauce

Nice! Am sure the RGB lighting drops the temperatures by another 5°-10°C for sure!

LLANO V10 for the G14 and V12 for the G16. The IETS is really the only other fan that does more than a few degrees of cooling for these laptops.

When the designer cares more about aesthetics than performance:

I'm not familiar with this brand, but even if the fans are super-duper strong, the vents appear to be working against them 🫣

those cutouts are probably blocking about half the static pressure of the fans lmao

That cooling pad is not really compatible for your zephryus. You should get one with more fan surface, like ilano v10 or v12, which essentially puts your laptop above 1 giant industrial grade fan

.... Why don't you re-paste it PTM is like $20 USD. Cooling pad isn't much better than a stand when the thermal material has gone bad

I used to use the IETS GT600, but the fan was noisy and rattling, even at 800 rpm.

Bought the Flydigi BS2, and running it at 1300 rom, and noise level is night and day compared to IETS

Flydigi BS2 Pro. Very quiet.

Awesome cheers

Well, good ones (GT600 or llano v10-12-13) will be with noise so if you are bothered with laptop fans you will be likely to be bothered by the cooling pad fans as well.

The next best thing that does it with air that is not gonna sound too much is either KLIM Everest or Klim turbofest

I'm looking to buy a cooling pad or mat as well. I just recently bought a Dell g7 7790.

Lift up the back before buying stuff

You really don't want to use a gaming laptop on your lap. Ideally they're desktop replacements i.e. sit on a desk. At max load of over 80C they'll be way too uncomfortable to put on your lap anyway, nevermind how inadvisable it would be to possibly block the air intake/exhaust vents that way. Also I'd recommend a cooling stand over a simple mat, the raised bottom lets air circulate.

Undervolting is the way I went to get my laptop down to the 70s at max. MSI GE63 w/ RTX 2070 Full and 9850h.

Jarrods tech did a whole video on cooling pads,give him a watch

The IETS 300/500 brand I saw decent reviews on this subreddit and youtube. At most it can reduce up by -10c

Cooling pads don't help you, what helps is raise your laptop

The fans don't really do anything for my legion but having it up off the desk does drop temp a lot

Lift it up. You can save money and just use a regular laptop stand that can support the weight and not block the vents or just stick something under the laptop's feet and prop it up so that's it higher off the table.

In most cases, something to just prop up the laptop is more than enough

They help. But for me 2/3 of the job comes from raising the laptop, not the pad fans themselves.

I use this one

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07P851KWD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_CXBF21JZP1Z8A4H0WYTF?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

and it cools my Alienware 15 R3 by 5-7°C down at 2/3 fan speed.

Klim Airflow+. From 94°C to 89 on max fan. Most of the time i don't turn it on. It's just to elevate the laptop.

Merely lifting your laptop and having more airflow underneath it improves its thermals quite a bit. I do that and use a USB fan blowing cold air towards it which cools it down quite a bit.

Nothing special, just a frame to lift the machine to let sufficient intake of airflow. You can make your own style in garage.

https://youtu.be/tXvKiy65pwg

Jarrod's Tech tested out a bunch of cooling pads, seems like they all perform about the same.

I bought a cheap ass Chinese pad called "cool cold" I think was the name of it just one medium 8 inch fan not very powerful but only $30 at a local shop.

The most recommended cooling pads are the GT300, GT500 and the KLIM Airflow. They're all pretty good at what they do so you can take your pick.

Edit: Forgot to mention that out of all of the coolers listed here, the KLIM Airflow is by far the cheapest and works just as well as the others. It comes in at $35 on Amazon with free shipping. The GT500 is $85. Why burn more money for something that doesn't do anything better than a $35 cooler? Makes no sense to waste $50 more.

Either go for the IETS GT500, or if you cant bear with neither the noise it will bring or the pricetag, just grab a simple laptop stand without active cooling fans. As all of the other designs are largely ineffective and offers little benefit over a simple laptop stand that can raise your laptop up to help with air intake.

Ive used the havit ones with good results. Get one with legs for incline.

is one even needed?

IETS GT500.

https://www.amazon.com/IETS-Powerful-Turbo-Fan-Infinitely-13-17-3inch/dp/B09D6J56NS/

No joke, that gives near desktop level cooling. I have the GT500-B. It creates a seal around the bottom of your laptop, and uses 1 large high speed radial fan to push air through the vents. Instead of blowing air at your laptop, it's directly pushing air through the vents. I can actually feel airflow rise up from the keyboard when it's on 100%. The laptop could be completely off and you'll feel a lot of air pressure coming from the exhaust vents. It’s loud though.

how bout set up an A/C behind your laptop. lol

If you really want something that works and is best for our machines you have only three options:

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1. IETS GT500
2. IETS GT300
3. KLIM Mistral

Now I had IETS GT300 and it started with the grinding sounds on random within a month since the purchase. Returned and got the KLIM Mistral. Better packaging and 5y warranty as per their amazon page. Over a month now and it still works like it should. It is basically the same design (and I suppose might be the same Chinese OEM) as the IETS GT300.

The benefits of all three are not only the seal they have which prevents the air from escaping and getting pushed towards the vents, but also that this seal, combined with the dust filters prevent that dust from getting inside the laptop. This is something no conventional cooler does, where they also push that dust in. Personal experience with CM Notepal XL vs options 2/3.

The benefits of all three are not only the seal they have which prevents the air from escaping and getting pushed towards the vents, but also that this seal, combined with the dust filters prevents that dust from getting inside the laptop. This is something no conventional cooler does, where they also push that dust in. Personal experience with CM Notepal XL vs options 2/3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvKiy65pwg

It used to be the NZXT Cryo LX 10 years ago. Now all notebook coolers are crap except IETS products.