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Cooling pads actually cool in two different ways: by blowing air into existing vents (described in the article) and by cooling the bottom of the laptop itself (not described). For example, they work well with MacBooks, even though they don't have any vents on the bottom, because the metal bottom of the computer is used as a heatsink. To a certain extent this also works on metal chassis laptops that don't use the chassis as a heatsink, because cooling the metal bottom will also carry away heat from the inside of the laptop.

Many cooling pads are not well designed for the second method, because there is almost no gap between the fans and the bottom of the laptop, so that both convection from and airflow across the metal surface are restricted.

Just saw this article and had to comment.  Obviously if the fans are that noisy, you have the wrong cooler.  I have a Tongfang GK7CP7S, known by many names from CyberPower PC, PC Specialists, Eluktronics, Mech 17, etc.  It has the 9750H and the RTX2070 non MaxQ.  It gets hot on it's own with plenty of thermal throttling.  95°C on average playing a AAA game.  Enter the CoolerMaster U3 cooling pad.  Three fans that can be placed anywhere underneath the pad to align with your laptop air intakes.  Add Throttlestop to drop voltages by .119mv.  Now the highest temp recorded for the CPU while playing a AAA game on max settings is 83°c. with the GPU recording 77°c.  Best of all, it's very QUIET!

Quote from: Monk on May 07, 2020, 20:13:08
I just bought a 200mm Noctua Fan with a fan-to-USB power cable.

Found a sturdy piece of cardboard that was roughly the size of my laptop and cut a hole for the Noctua to blow through. Was able to use the fan mounting screws to secure it to the cardboard.

I'm out... $30? Plus what ever it cost me to buy what ever the cardboard came from... still... not too shabby.

Looks Ghetto... but I'm running low 30's on my MSI GS65 2018.  So it works.

Arts and crafts hour turned into a win for me this weekend.

Wow, $30 is high end these days, I got a whole cooling pad with 5 fans in it and an aluminum surface, and it's less than $20, and I just looked and now it's on sale for about $14.5.

Quote from: william blake on May 07, 2020, 15:22:28

Quote from: MOFO on May 07, 2020, 12:41:27
Congratulations!
You just thought of the worst gaming laptop ever, a 55W GPU is not even close to a good average gaming GPU

55w is kinda 2060 max-q. its a good average gaming gpu. much closer to the top than to the bottom.
i recommend you to lower you video settings next time you need more fps. its not difficult. ah, hardware unboxed told you ultra settings is the best? this changes things. well, you need more money then and headphones and cooling pad.

as pointed out, 2060 max q is not 55w. it's 80w. a 1660ti max q would be closer to that value (60w). why would you pay for a gimped GPU when the full version is same price? what is your logic blake? why would you want the GPU/CPU to be gimped?

"lower your video settings"??? WHY WHEN YOU CAN GET THE NON MAX Q VERSION? ASDHAJKSHDJKASHD

arguing with you kills my brain cells if I'm being honest.

Quote from: william blake on May 07, 2020, 15:14:51
i am the most reasonable person here and i know what am i talking about. my logic is flawless and i always win against any noob or fanatic.

lol if I didn't know better I would think you're being sarcastic.

Quote from: william blake on May 07, 2020, 15:22:28

55w is kinda 2060 max-q. its a good average gaming gpu. much closer to the top than to the bottom.
i recommend you to lower you video settings next time you need more fps. its not difficult. ah, hardware unboxed told you ultra settings is the best? this changes things. well, you need more money then and headphones and cooling pad.

The 2060 max-q is 80 watt, the closest you can to decent gpu and close to 55W is a 1660 ti max-q, but it is still 60 watt.

That said, cooling pads are useful for gaming laptops because they all run hot. There is little you can do about that. A cheap cooling pad extends the lifespan of the laptop quite a bit.

Of course that is for gaming.

Not to mention fans have a lifespan as well, much cheaper to buy a $10 cooling pad then replace components for a laptop.

Well, for me when playing my dh0105tx hp omen, while not using the coolpad does makes the temp down around 5 dgree and for laptop is a big thing. I tried the coolpad with fan on and of it makes small diffrent is only aroun 1-2 degree... So yes elevetung the laptop is very importent if you are traveling and dont want to carry coolpad just buy some small emax for elevating your laptop.

Looking at the graph, you can see that the internal fan was running significantly harder with the pad on. Significantly contributing to the higher recorded noise. Any explanation for that? Have you tried repeating it? If anything, you'd expect it run slower and quieter since temperatures were lower. Have you tried monitoring fan speed? Was it actually higher? Why isn't there any mention of it in the article?

Not to forget :

1. Cooling-Pad size matches Laptop size; pad's mesh/grill is not a hindrance for fan air-flow.
2. Single large cooler fan may do just fine as opposed to 2 or 3 fans
3. Laptop with sufficient intake-vents at the bottom : IMPORTANT requirement
4. These vents(point #3) will let in fine dust in; so cooling-pad entails frequent laptop internal dusting.
5. Also in Hot & Dry climate, placing a pan(2cm height) of clean water will further reduce CPU/GPU/HDD/Battery temps; laptops tolerate humidity very well.

And, if laptop doesn't have intake-vents in the bottom then perhaps vacuum-coolers which latch on to exhaust-fan outlet will help.

I just bought a 200mm Noctua Fan with a fan-to-USB power cable.

Found a sturdy piece of cardboard that was roughly the size of my laptop and cut a hole for the Noctua to blow through. Was able to use the fan mounting screws to secure it to the cardboard.

I'm out... $30? Plus what ever it cost me to buy what ever the cardboard came from... still... not too shabby.

Looks Ghetto... but I'm running low 30's on my MSI GS65 2018.  So it works.

Arts and crafts hour turned into a win for me this weekend.

Quote from: MOFO on May 07, 2020, 12:41:27
Congratulations!
You just thought of the worst gaming laptop ever, a 55W GPU is not even close to a good average gaming GPU

55w is kinda 2060 max-q. its a good average gaming gpu. much closer to the top than to the bottom.
i recommend you to lower you video settings next time you need more fps. its not difficult. ah, hardware unboxed told you ultra settings is the best? this changes things. well, you need more money then and headphones and cooling pad.

Quote from: Alex544 on May 07, 2020, 09:51:24
An ignorant comment by blake? Wow what a surprise.
Literally every gaming laptop would benefit from a cooling pad, at least for the elevation it provides for the laptop that actually allows for airflow. The ones that wouldn't benefit are the ones that are tdp-limited by the manufacturer aka craptops.

i am the most reasonable person here and i know what am i talking about. my logic is flawless and i always win against any noob or fanatic. still not sure who you are between these two, i am pretty bad at remembering opponents names.
(btw, why you even wrote about airflow? )
ok, lets look at this "cooling pad" question.
1. if a laptop requires a cooling pad, or cooling pad is recommended for some reason, or just someone bought it, without requirements and reccomendations, and uses it all the time,
should we still measure all the laptop parameters and make all the ratings and conclusions without counting a cooling pad?
if some youtuber told me this laptop is light and slim and its a plus, but cooling pad is recommended or it will make this laptop even better, i see some problem in his logic and conclusions. laptop is not so light and slim with cooling pad, right? we should proceed from this point and remake all the tests and revised all pros and cons.
2. so, we did all this, laptop+cooling pad(lets call it laptopad) turns out to be heavier, uglier but cooler or even faster than the original laptop. all are happy. laptopad is not light&thin but we all agree its a bit better than just laptop.
3. so why even build these two parts separately? we just said we want them both attached to each other. and if we dont, there are plenty of people who want. and our tests shows all the benefits also. we can go even further, how about 2 versions of our initial laptop, one with attached cooling pad and one without. people are different, there are still some who does not know about "airflow" and prefer no pad at all.
laptopad should be even better than laptop+pad, engineering, you know.
at the end we have a laptop and a laptopad, both of them are in demand.
4. why zero laptopads on the market?

Quote from: Alex544 on May 07, 2020, 09:51:24

Quote from: william blake on May 07, 2020, 06:43:20
cooling pad is very helpful in determining if your laptop garbage or not.
just answer the questions:
does the cooling pad help your laptop? did you buy a cooling pad? do you use a cooling pad? do you like the cooling pad?
if one of the answers is "yes", congratulations, your laptop sucks.

An ignorant comment by blake? Wow what a surprise.

Literally every gaming laptop would benefit from a cooling pad, at least for the elevation it provides for the laptop that actually allows for airflow. The ones that wouldn't benefit are the ones that are tdp-limited by the manufacturer aka craptops.

lol I agree with that, when NBC showed that the MBP wouldn't throttle, I immediately pointed out that it means the peak performance is artificially limited.

Wow, I just bought something similar. My 1065G7 manages to run Battletech on 1080P high(but with medium shadows and AA off) at perfectly playable frame rates but seems to border unplayable even dialed down to low(I've yet to rule out a fan defect) when the ambient temperature rises a few degrees. The weather's cool again these days but I'll find out if the pad makes a significant difference when it gets hot again, inevitably. I've got a protection film all over the aluminum chassis which is definitely bad for thermals(but good for resale value, and I'm obsessive about keeping it looking new) and it's got tiny vents in the first place, but I'll find out.