Alright look Im tired of looking at reviews. I really am. I can tell half of them are bullshit. The next 25 percent are people whining about shipping times and or mismatched products and I cant seem to find solid reviews on even cooler master products.. so FUCK you amazon and your shitty review system.
Anyways rant over. I need some solid laptop pad coolers under 30 bukcs. Seeing as all the questions on this forum pertain to ones that are above 30 dollars. This is why I am asking a new one.
Your recommendations are appreciated. If possible list specs such as CFM, static pressure, materials constructed out of and as always personal experiences if you have any
Thank you
I am asking an identical question on Linus tech tips. I know thats fround upon here but basically this is the deal. Yes while linus shills... his forum is sorta consumer centric... while this is a heavily technical forum. I like both sides to the story. and honestly I have never gone wrong on choosing the options that both forums recommend
Don't bother buying a "laptop cooling pad". Every single one is garbage and not worth the price. The amount of extra air that they provide is so small that you will only get like a 5 degree decrease in temps for $30. It would be more efficient to just replace your CPU thermal paste.
I've been curious about the actual amount that active cooling pads help. Since my laptop actually takes air in from the bottom, and exhausts it out the rear, I've been wondering if I may actually notice an appreciable difference.
However, a couple weeks ago I was actually brave enough to swap out the thermal compound when I also upgraded my spinning rust to an SSD. Whatever they used looked like a slightly grey generic paste, but I replaced it with some Prolimatech PK-3, and I noticed roughly a ~15C drop in temperature in most scenarios. That alone made me happy, but also my CPU runs at its boost clock a lot more, too.
Ive looked into it unfortunately that seller on amazon has reviews bled over from the real cooler master and that bothers me because people are getting knock offs :/
but ill look into the branding
Dont care about pass through when i have 4 ports plus 2 USB 3.1 C
K see ive tested that and I know that claim is total garbage.. No offense but replacing on most high end laptops actually net results 2-3 C gain... in my tests and several other peoples tests.
Laptop cooling pads have a significant affect my friend has one and i went from 80 C to 64 C... where are you getting that claim?
I have the NotePal X slim that Big Al linked in the first post. Lowered my HP Spectre X360 from 80c at load to high 60's. 12-15c improvement for me, so not bad. Its a bit loud though, so I only use it when the laptop is getting stressed hard and needs it. Otherwise it gives a nice angle. It may be a tad small for a 15 inch gaming laptop though, but I don't think its un-do-able
yeah it doesnt matter.. on my specific laptop the cooling is in the center and the centrifugal blower fans pull from those vents in and out heatsinks on the far side of the laptop so all i need is it being centered
Like others, my experience with laptop cooling pads is quite negative. I didn't really notice any significant improvement when compared to simply elevating the back of the laptop a little bit with a textbook or something. A laptop cooling pad pretty much only cools the cheapo plastic. It doesn't help with cooling at all.
If you have the option I'd make sure the heatsink and fan are free of clogged dust, and also repaste. I have done this on plenty of laptops and have lowered temps by 10c before.
I have a bunch of Cooler Master ones with a rather large fan in the middle, but I can't seem to find them anymore online. I got them for free after a MIR on black friday.
Dude I get it but holy crop has nobody in this post realized the laptop is practically brand new.. No repasting won't help you know why Cuz I called asus.. They stated and I quote "all thermal compound used on our rog strix branding is tuniq tx-4" that's in the group of some of the best thermal compunded and they load it on there nicely.. Like I've seen a tear down there is literally no point. I will take the suggestion a few years later in the laptops life.. Now as for the cheapo plastic.. Mine happens to be aluminum so even cooling the case would help and the vents are quite unrestrictive on the bottom it just needs stronger air flow... And I've proven all it takes is a small draft with a little fan I have at home. This is why I am looking. Thank you for sharing your experience it is interesting. Tech noob I'm not yelling at you at all I'm kinda saying this to everyone.. Lol it's a new laptop.. It hits 82 C gaming sometimes and throttles.. I'd at least like to curb a bit of heat even if is a small amount
This is why I wasn't yelling at anyone in particular.. The model name is up there.. It is a new model so I figured that would be enough haha.. And yeah still trying to get dimensions
I can keep going. Fuck, I can even go testing for myself on my own laptops if you aren't satisfied.
Laptop coolers are complete shit and do almost nothing to performance and temperatures. Like I said in my original post, it will yield around a 5Degree drop in temps, which is peanuts. Change your thermal paste instead. That almost always yields higher temperature decreases.
I could call out the fact that those are very thin form factor laptop the gs series from msi has extremely restrictive vents we can't simply say everything is Shit because it doesn't work on some shitty laptop because honestly msi laptops have shitty cooling and yes I have tested them. Also there are about 2 people in here claiming the X slim does a good job. You gonna deny their results too? Or are you going to provide recommendations. If your only recommendation is to continue to say they are Shit ill take that into consideration? Anything else constructive you would like to add? Don't get me wrong id take any feedback I can get butt repeating what you said again even though their is a clear delinieation here that I will get a pad and have made my choice here is not very helpful
There is also two people that don't like them which is fine if it is tied but from what I am seeing it depends more on the laptop and cooling pad combination vs all being bad or laptops being restrictive. I trust reputable brands like cooler master vs knock offs and I'm also looking at the fan specs which include but are not limited to cfm static pressure rpm and size... I'm not stupid. I know what would cool and what wouldn't.. Seeing as a lot of. People do not want to chunk out 30 dollars and by knock offs for. About 6 to 15 bucks I can see why people complain about them being Shit. I looked at amazing there are a bazillion crappie knocks offs lol
So the general consensus I'm seeing on this forum is one give the laptop more room to breath and two if you need one the x slim is the best one by cooler aster for the job
