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In my experience laptops benefit much more from being raised somewhat so that their in built coolers can suck air easier, than from outside cooling. Unless you are talking about big time cooling. Last summer just to test I put a big fan (the one you use to cool down yourself in summer) under my laptop, and it actually managed to cut down the temps by 10c while blender rendering. So in my experience coolers do work in theory. Just not in the small form factor they are sold in.
That's what I did. Put a real fan underneath my old laptop, because at that time I was so poor, I just grabbed the fan that I already had. It worked very well. But overall it looks ugly. I thought a laptop cooling fan would be better, that's why I watch this video. Apparently it is not.
@@tegathemenace The fan must be the flat type. It was the standing type, but laid it down horizontally. I bought it on walmart for $12. Then I putted the laptop on top of that carefully, and supported it with some books. It seems I can't find similar type fan now.
100% if you ever plan to game with the laptop on your lap you will NEED a cooling pad. Period. I’ve always been a laptop gamer and I’ll say without a doubt if you don’t use the pad your thermals will be way above 80 degrees on your lap easily after an hour of gaming. I suggest you do your research and compare benchmarks of various pads. Klim mistral is a good one
I just use a piece of wood which used to be an ikea shelf. I put the laptop on top of the shelf and rest the shelf on the arms of my chair. That way my laptop is on a flat surface, and I have an area to use my mouse.
@@BrawndoQC >Brawndo >Killing people in the movie via plant death cuz 'muh electrolytes' >Your testimony boiling down to believe me, bro >Probably burning away your laptop Fucking pottery. Can't make this shit up.
@@Thiccubus It's not believe me bruh it's in multiple tech analysis on youtube, reddit, tech articles etc. At least if you have a modern laptop. If you have a dinosaur it's another story, noob.
This video was actually very informative. The first pad I bought didn't actually have a fan I bought it for my first quad core laptop which had a huge battery. But it would get hot so I was thankful that I had bought this thing from HP with it it was just a tray that it could sit on when I was working at my lazy boy. And it had a tray that would come out to put a mouse on it if I didn't want to use a trackpad. But it didn't do much to improve cooling because the heat still came up through the keyboard. I'm of the opinion that investing in cooling inside the laptop is maybe worth it from an experience standpoint. But I had to like this video for the Takagisan reference
My "gaming" laptop has no fans, it got pretty hot while playing games like roblox even on low graphics. I raised it up with some lego technical frames and got my ps4 cooling fan extension that I didn't currently need and placed on the side blowing under it. It got the job done, it survived over 6 hours of gaming in a row. That's impressive for my laptop's ability
Correction: The direction of the fan blow is going in from the bottom and blows out in the sides or top. That is the direction of the blow. So installing a cooling pad below your laptop helps as long as the direction of the fan blow is going to towards the bottom of the laptop. You will notice a slight difference if you are using a cooling pad connected to a 5Volt source. Solution: buy a fan with 12Volts external source and you will notice a great difference in temp and blow strength. 😊 Just my experience so far.
@@Equalsundew are you sure? Yes, But you need to flip the direction of the fan. Not as effective as the ones the blows inwards cause you need to make sure the suction is good from the vent
I have two old external Hard Disk boxes which I use to prop up the back end of my laptop, and so far, after a few days, I can say that the temperature seems to have dropped 👍😁 Before, it used to get hot near the battery/processors, now it is pretty much cool all the time, even when playing GTA V Online 🙂
The best cooling pads are the raised aluminum ones with 1 or 2 fans in the middle. It gives you the height needed to pull in the most air and doesn't blow air into your exhaust but centrally which is where infrared shows most of the heat anyways.
It really depends on the model you have. In most models nowadays the exaustor are at the back and sides of the laptop and the intakes are at the bottom, so if you blow wind under there it actually helps quite a lot with the airflow. But if the exaustor is on the bottom, or if you have no intakes at all on the bottom, a pad will not help you out by any means. laptop stands only help if you have inlets or outlets at the bottom, if all your holes are on the side/back, it makes no diference whatsoever
i have found a laptop cooling pad with 3 adjustable fans, my intake is on the right hand side on the bottom, and my exhaust vent on the left also on the bottom. i believe if i switch the left side fan on the cooling pad to blow the opposite direction to the right side ones, it will blow air in the intake while also sucking air from the exhaust. therefore, upping airflow heavily.
Thanks for this. Funny and informative. Subbed. Did you HP Envy have a metal case? I think laptops with metal cases benefit more from having cooling air blown over them.
As an Alienware laptop user for me a laptop fan from dell actually was very helpful because it kept my computer from going over 200 degrees. I tested it as well it would only cap to 160 to 170 with the cooling pad but I do have tons of vents under my laptop and around the sides. Whenever one fan goes the temperature dramatically increases and the computer starts to burn me. Edit: after replacing the battery and getting this fan my computer now sits on average at about 80-90 Fahrenheit
if you have an vent where air is coming out, the purpose of the other vents is to let cold air in. In my laptops case, the hot air is blowing on the left side, and I have vents under the laptop. So a underside cooling pad, is effective for Mine.
if you have an AC you can put a pc fan on both ends of a pipe or tube and place one end near the AC so that it suck cold air and put the other end near you laptop cooling intake
i have a lenovo z580 from 9 years ago, i upgraded it with a ssd and 16 gigs of ram but the cpu was still idoling at 80C. I got a cooling pad for like 7 bucks and remove the bottom panel and it works like magic. the temperatures have dropped by atleast 10 or 15 degrees
I agree with you about the stand. I tried a few different cooling pads and they did little to help. I went with a stand which actually helped my laptop to stay as cool as it could.
My laptop has a huge intake across the bottom, and an exhaust out of the left side. I definitely see a significant decrease in maximum temperature when I have it on a cooling pad.
My laptop's cooling base's fan is so weak that it literally makes no noise. You can't hear it. I believe that, although the difference is marginal, that it might cool a tiny little bit more than the stand.
Actually the vent on the bottom of the laptop is for Air intake while the vents on the side or back are intended for the exhaust. Manufacturers placed those exhaust on the back or side so that it'll exhaust the heat regardless of the laptop being on a flat surface or elevated.
@@skeith7403 also his comment makes to sense. How would the laptop know out of which openings to intake air and to blow out?It only exhales. Personally I think all laptops should come with stands because some people keep placing it on flat surfaces where the air can't escape and wonder why it over heats. That's like having your mouth and nose covered by someone's hands, how you you breathe
@@virtualcity721 his comment made perfect sense, both intake and exhaust vents have corresponding fans which blow in their corresponding directions. most exhaust vents are on the side to prevent heat build up underneath the laptop, mine however, is on the bottom :(
It would make more sense to get a small desk fan and point it towards your keyboard, the heat radiating up from the keyboard will be constantly blown away from the fan and keep things cool.
Ok. This confirm what i thought well suspected already. As even in PC cases Mid Tower or smaller you can get temps high if there is no good exhaust fans in. Even better inatake and out take fans... Same is here. If you guys wanna good fans make sure to use ones with 4 wires. So it support PWM (fourth wire control fan speed based on temperature sensor)... in nutshell... Also see Specs about dB levels (noise). If you guys want cooling pads that are silent use passive ones. Right build material can have heat absorbing qualities or even models with additional thermal solution. There is talk about it on net so search. PC: Make sure you dust out your hardware at least 1-2 years depending where you live. Thanks for video. 💻
I might just be stupid but when I thought about using this with a laptop that has vents on the bottom made me think of spinning the laptop fans backwards and turning them into generators, they probably protect against that but some older models might not, and I was worried someone would kill their laptop with it.
I was planning on getting one but I looked at the laptop and all the vents are on the side and I had the exact thought that you mentioned, how do I know if I am not shoving air in the exhaust. Thanks for saving me the money
Newer gaming laptop majority of those have single blower style fans so cooling pad would be useless a stand is the way to go thank you bro for explaining
Thanks for video. I bought recently gaming laptop and noticed that it can be quite hot during games. Wanted to buy cooling pad, but then couple times saw article how they can be very damaging to internal parts (blowing air inside just to speed up dust accumulation and causing false-read for some sensors). After your video decided to invest in better laptop stand. Thanks for saving my money! 😀
thats only in theory though. i never seen anyone come out saying their internal hardware got damaged because of the external fan. ive seen people say "oh using table fan directly to ps4 will interrupt its airflow etc" but no lol dusts will be stucked to the cooler's fan, not the laptop. just have it cleaned once every 4 months
@@CatBaloo I may consider purchasing it in the future, but first I’m definitely going to put thermal paste and see how it affects temps, I’ve undervolted and started playing games with my fans on max speed and it’s helping a lot, I personally may not need it but we’ll see
Here's my take. I had a single fan cooling pad from Cooler Master first. My first cooling pad. Never had a stand. My laptop vent the heat out from the back and sucks it in form the bottom. So in my use case the cooling pad was on point. However I felt moderately dissatisfied. It wasn't dust or clogging. I can open my laptop and service it myself just fine with the fans, ram, hdd, battery replwc, cleaning etc. Some time later I bought another cooler master but this one had 4 fans. Unfortunately the air it blows is nowhere near enough. Perhaps it's just how low quality the cooling pads have become lately. Seems like the actual good stuff starts at close to $80-100. Which may not be the right price margin for most people and consequently most would face disappointment. Personally taking a strong wire or perforated mesh and attaching pc cabinet fans at the bottom of them while rigging them up to an external power source seems the best solution cooling wise but the comfort of having it in your lap would be gone. I guess that's the tradeoff here.
It's not always about the fans they do like 20% of the job, what you need is elevation. I'm also using a Legion 5 mainly for gaming and when my cooling pad legs broke (it was a cheap one like 20$ Thermaltake v20) I've been using it like that for a while but the difference is massive, my laptop started heating up a lot even in short sessions, when I bought a new cooling pad temps got back to normal.
I use them for my android boxes and they work great. I also sit my 2 tb hard drive connected to my android boxes on the cooling pad. I can feel the difference.
I have a laptop cooling pad. The fan on it wasn't impressive at all, but I like that the platform has pores which kinda catches the dust before it goes into the laptop itself, which is nice.
One of these had no effect at all on my laptops' heat levels. When I switched to a device which blows air across it from the rear instead of into the bottom, that made an appreciable difference.
the main question is do this cooling pad affect on the battery and make it draining fast ? if i (only put the laptop on ac adapter 220v all the time so i don't use battery ) but if the battery is plugged in and i was runnign laptop on ac adapter will the battery affect bad ? plz help me and reply me i am going ot buy a new one
My laptop has always been overheat and it ruins the performance but then I remembered I hat an air ventilator for on the ground now I put my laptop on it and the difference is huge from 81 degrees to 39 degrees
Really good point there bro with the export fans on the bottom with import fans messing with the flow…. I have an Msi raider (pretty highly specked out though) so she gets HOT when I’m playing 7 days to die or ark on max settings. However my computer has import fans on the bottom with export in the back and the sides so I think this would probably work well for me i tried the whole prop it up (only I used for nicotine pouch packs lol) and it works well but it can be flimsy if I was to move the computer in literally any direction…. So that’s annoying actually I just took them off today and put it back how it was when I got it I’m gonna do more testing soon but I want something to help keep this baby cool and to help dust from building inside the computer as I live in a dusty environment unfortunately….
My laptop has ventilation at the bottom And it doesn't push air it sucks the air and pushes it out on the sides so maybe a cooling pad isn't the worst if ideas for me
I have same issue. I have HP ZBook 17 G3 workstation laptop it overheat so much that its cpu reaches 95+ degree so I purchased a 2 fan cooling pad but it still did not fixed my problem, temps were same. So I decided to change thermal paste, after applying new thermal paste temps were between 76-80degree on stand but 80-85degree on cooling pad I don't know why.
extracting the hot air is better then puting the laptop on a cooling pad I actualy teted that, after I made a DIY extractor from cartbord and 2 Fans, mounting it on the exaust it cooled my laptop about 10-15C
The only cooling that actually works in a laptop is opening the thing up, changing the thermal paste, cleaning the dusty fans and exhaust, elevating the laptop, and if u can, use one of those small USB fans and make it blow the hot air that's coming out of the laptop, away from it to the sides. Works like a charm.
@@ikemanproductions7762 it's a tiny USB fan that you plug into the laptop, and adjust so that it blows the hot air away from the PC..you can type it in AliExpress it should show up. This is anecdotal, but for me I notice improvement.
For me I'm trying to revive my 2018 hp laptop the model didn't come with a fan and I been doing research and it said I have to hook up a fan on the bottom of the board but can't still find the connector so I been doing research about a cooling pad to prevent me dismantling my laptop each time, so I think I'ma find a cooling pad until I know where to connect my fan at.
A cooling pad is absolutely not for blowing air into the laptop, it is for cooling down under trays setup for passive cooling, and that is the absolute best way to describe it. You can mod passive cooling into your under tray if its aluminium BTW, this will give you results if done right. Its really important to understand how laptops often cool to ultimately answer this question. A gaming laptop for example will typically require more cooling so designers of the laptop often have them use metal under trays which have copper connecting thermal pads (thermal pad looks like bluetac, its effectively a type of tape that transfers heat, its used for component cooling in laptops, it is not the same as the cooling pads in question) from the CPU/GPU onto the underside of the laptop tray (similar to how the old school mac books pros did it), this burns the absolute crap out of your legs however when paired with one of these desk fans does actually make a difference. Most general purpose laptops wont have a cooling setup like this due to how uncomfortable it is for the user, theyl just have two blower fans and all the heat is dissipated through those, if you use a cooling pad on this it absolutely will not make any difference. Its all about removing heat and a fan blowing cold air into the underside of your laptop when the laptop fans are doing the exact same thing at likely a higher RPM (so likely the pad just restricts air) and not through passive disipation is absolutely useless, if it wasnt then every desktop PC company, every server would have fans stacked 5 ontop of eachother, its just not how it works. Its really hard for me to describe what im getting at here unless youve taken apart and seen many different models of laptop, but basically if you have an aluminium under tray to your laptop you can stick thermal pads between that and the CPU / GPU, itl make the part of the laptop that sits on your knee burning hot however when used in conjunction with a cooling pad, that is when you'll actually see a difference. The heat is inside the laptop and youve got to remove it. If you have the heat travel to the bottom tray of the laptop then a cooling pad makes a difference.
Everyone says "blows", but they all suck lol, although I've seen a couple that were reversible. My takeaway is: I'll make my own damn cool er, by jerryrigging a nice laptop stand 👍
My Legion is all aluminium as well, and the whole thing heats up under load, so I could make a cooling plate for it, with copper ribs and fans, attached to the stand, I have a lot of flat aluminium surface to work with after all
Yes and no. Providing a higher volume of air at a faster rate to the intake fans will help with active cooling, not much but it will be effective. Blowing cool air across the entire bottom of the laptop will help with passive cooling which also provides benefits. Three or four large high volume slow(ish) turning fans will provide the most benefit with the lowest noise. In this case he was really CPU limited and the cooling wasn't going to provide much benefit. If he had a more up to date laptop that was truely thermal throttling then most of these solutions would have helped some. You could put liquid nitrogen on an old laptop and get little to no beneift when running the latest version of Blender because the cpu itself is the limit.
From the research I've seen, cooling pads can reduce the temperature but only by about 4° or 5° Celsius. So that's nice. But it's not significant especially for the extra noise
they work just by having more clear space between the resting surface and the laptop bottom, also if youre in a small space they help with air flow otherwise the hot exhaust just recirculates back to the laptop
Cooling pads provide more than just cooling. In most cases, cooling pads will make an unnoticeable temperature difference. However, they can still provide: 1) A first line of defense from dust or create a space away from a surface that might become dusty. ie. a desk that you solemnly dust. The fans on the cooling pad will collect dust before getting to the fans of your computer. 2) Add a viewing better angle. Most cooling pads can be angled or raised and make it a lot easier on the neck. Looking down at a laptop definitely takes a toll on the back and neck over time.
In my opinion, a better way to cool down a laptop is to make a specialized attachment to connect to the exhaust and attach a fan and modify the cooling system. For what I did when I was poor and still am poor is put my laptop on top of the AC vent. But these is highly risky for your pc. Only do these if you can add a thin cloth
@@_sayandas not really a coolin pad actually Forces room temperature air into your laptop in a inefficient way miles a modifications to the cooling grill to remove heat in a more efficient way. modifications/improvement
I have an acer aspire 7,i gamed the hell out of it as it had an gtx1650, i didn't pay attention to the airflow or temps ,then the heating issues started,after replacing thermal paste,adding another 8gig stick of ram,i understood the importance of laptop stands,got one of those cheap aluminum once on Amazon,and undervolted my cpu via throttlestop,now the laptop runs a bit cooler.tldr:- pay attention to the thermals and airflow.i wish i have known these things beforehand.
laptops exhaust hot air on the sides, not the bottom, the vents under the laptops are intake vents, and hot air rises so putting exhaust vents under the laptop makes no sense and can even make it hotter. Propping the laptop up helps fresh air circulate under the laptop, that's is why cooling pads have fans on the bottom of the laptop to help push the air toward the intake vents, but since most cooling pad fans aren't fast enough so it doesn't help much. I have friend who made a custom cooling pad using CPU cooler fans and it made his laptop drops to 45-48 degrees when he game
For me my cooling pad works very well on the bottom of my computer but the very top where my gpu is it’s the hottest thing I’ve ever touched. That’s why I’m looking at videos because I’m just wondering if it’s safe that the top of my lab top is super hot but the bottom is a nice room temp
Surely if a laptop has an exhaust then it also has an intake right? Air doesn’t magically blow out of the laptop. I suppose if the intakes are on the bottom of the laptop then a cooling pad might work like the AC of a car
Well I just unscrew bottom panel that was covering Ram slots and Hard disc slot and use cooling pad under that. That worked about 40% better than with covers
I have a Razer Blade 15 Advanced and I want a to buy a cooling pad or fan not to improve the performance or lower the CPU/GPU temperature (since the laptop already does a really good job), but to cool the aluminum chasis... Aluminum laptops do benefit of having a cooling pad or fan to cool the chasis off, since they can get quite hot while playing heavy games. And since the chasis works as a passive cooling system, its a win win
Im sitting here after buying 3 different cooling pads. What i found out is those USB cooling fans do nothing to bring your temps down. The only cooling pads that work are those 240v industrial cooling pads. these USB pads are just a gimmick.
Hi there! I have a laptop with no fan just bare copper plate directed at its cpu so I bought a cooling pad that has a stand and yes my vents is on the side however what I did is instead of directly blowing air to the laptop I flipped the fan so that heat will be directed at the bottom which did good however I dont know if it will work for other units.
hey. I'm just curious about your laptop regarding without a cooling fan. it's a little weird for me that a pc without a fooling fan, I you don't mind, what is the brand and the exact unit of your laptop?
Hey there, this is the first day that a have cooling pad for my gaming laptop. i will see in the future how this will be, with the gaming performance and how the laptop will work. The cooler has stage speeds of cooling.
So in principle, next time I get really hot during a heat wave, I just need to lift my ass up on some bricks or some kind of meshed chair? No fans or AC necessary right?
A cooling stand will work much better, on a gaming laptop with large openings at the bottom. The fans suck air from the bottom a squeeze it out to the back and/or the side, under a closed office type laptop it can not work so well, of course. If you only have 1 or 2 openings at the bottom the best cooler needs to be directly under the fans blowing fresh air into, otherwise it will not work. And you have to compare the temperature differcence under the same workload at idle. If the laptop is cooler, the processore under stress will likely not throttle so much, but almost reach the same temperature as before, so you could think the coler does nothing, but it does.
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In my experience laptops benefit much more from being raised somewhat so that their in built coolers can suck air easier, than from outside cooling. Unless you are talking about big time cooling. Last summer just to test I put a big fan (the one you use to cool down yourself in summer) under my laptop, and it actually managed to cut down the temps by 10c while blender rendering.
So in my experience coolers do work in theory. Just not in the small form factor they are sold in.
so true, those things do not have enough power to make a difference, but then again sparing a full sized fan for that purpose is kinda hard
I have a small desk fan that I put underneath my laptop lifted up. It makes a huge difference just my hands get pretty cold 😭
That's what I did. Put a real fan underneath my old laptop, because at that time I was so poor, I just grabbed the fan that I already had. It worked very well. But overall it looks ugly. I thought a laptop cooling fan would be better, that's why I watch this video. Apparently it is not.
@@real_hello_kitty Currently that poor. How do you do it
@@tegathemenace The fan must be the flat type. It was the standing type, but laid it down horizontally. I bought it on walmart for $12. Then I putted the laptop on top of that carefully, and supported it with some books. It seems I can't find similar type fan now.
100% if you ever plan to game with the laptop on your lap you will NEED a cooling pad. Period. I’ve always been a laptop gamer and I’ll say without a doubt if you don’t use the pad your thermals will be way above 80 degrees on your lap easily after an hour of gaming. I suggest you do your research and compare benchmarks of various pads. Klim mistral is a good one
I just use a piece of wood which used to be an ikea shelf. I put the laptop on top of the shelf and rest the shelf on the arms of my chair.
That way my laptop is on a flat surface, and I have an area to use my mouse.
I use u pal deepcool cooling pad and it's dropped the temperature enough that I can play without any worries
No, I game with mine and it's a regular stand with no extra cooling. It's not a fact at all.
@@BrawndoQC
>Brawndo
>Killing people in the movie via plant death cuz 'muh electrolytes'
>Your testimony boiling down to believe me, bro
>Probably burning away your laptop
Fucking pottery. Can't make this shit up.
@@Thiccubus It's not believe me bruh it's in multiple tech analysis on youtube, reddit, tech articles etc. At least if you have a modern laptop. If you have a dinosaur it's another story, noob.
This video was actually very informative. The first pad I bought didn't actually have a fan I bought it for my first quad core laptop which had a huge battery. But it would get hot so I was thankful that I had bought this thing from HP with it it was just a tray that it could sit on when I was working at my lazy boy. And it had a tray that would come out to put a mouse on it if I didn't want to use a trackpad. But it didn't do much to improve cooling because the heat still came up through the keyboard. I'm of the opinion that investing in cooling inside the laptop is maybe worth it from an experience standpoint. But I had to like this video for the Takagisan reference
My "gaming" laptop has no fans, it got pretty hot while playing games like roblox even on low graphics. I raised it up with some lego technical frames and got my ps4 cooling fan extension that I didn't currently need and placed on the side blowing under it. It got the job done, it survived over 6 hours of gaming in a row. That's impressive for my laptop's ability
Who's idea was it to make a gaming laptop with no fans? even with fans they're almost overheating most of the time.
keyword "gaming" its prob a normal laptop that just doesnt have any fans and them playing games on it makes it worse@@KoopatoadYT
Laptops never exhaust from the bottom, those are intake vents
U haven't seen enough laptops then. I've had a laptop that exhaust air from the bottom by ASUS.
@@dto507 Same here asus zenbook
My dell inspiron dose
the fans always flows downwards
cooling pads just become cold and when you put them from below where the parts are like cpu and gpu they get colder ig
Correction: The direction of the fan blow is going in from the bottom and blows out in the sides or top. That is the direction of the blow. So installing a cooling pad below your laptop helps as long as the direction of the fan blow is going to towards the bottom of the laptop.
You will notice a slight difference if you are using a cooling pad connected to a 5Volt source. Solution: buy a fan with 12Volts external source and you will notice a great difference in temp and blow strength. 😊 Just my experience so far.
Can you give us a brand or a specific product
Please that will help a lot🥲
@@rayoone10 Almost everyone's laptop is built that way.
@@kylelee6164 she meant a laptopcooler model ofc lol
Mine blows from the back should I still get one?
@@Equalsundew are you sure? Yes, But you need to flip the direction of the fan. Not as effective as the ones the blows inwards cause you need to make sure the suction is good from the vent
I have two old external Hard Disk boxes which I use to prop up the back end of my laptop, and so far, after a few days, I can say that the temperature seems to have dropped 👍😁
Before, it used to get hot near the battery/processors, now it is pretty much cool all the time, even when playing GTA V Online 🙂
The best cooling pads are the raised aluminum ones with 1 or 2 fans in the middle. It gives you the height needed to pull in the most air and doesn't blow air into your exhaust but centrally which is where infrared shows most of the heat anyways.
It really depends on the model you have. In most models nowadays the exaustor are at the back and sides of the laptop and the intakes are at the bottom, so if you blow wind under there it actually helps quite a lot with the airflow. But if the exaustor is on the bottom, or if you have no intakes at all on the bottom, a pad will not help you out by any means.
laptop stands only help if you have inlets or outlets at the bottom, if all your holes are on the side/back, it makes no diference whatsoever
This. I studied basic thermo-dynamics for jets, and even I know laptop cooling fans can help in the right conditions.
I agree
i have found a laptop cooling pad with 3 adjustable fans, my intake is on the right hand side on the bottom, and my exhaust vent on the left also on the bottom. i believe if i switch the left side fan on the cooling pad to blow the opposite direction to the right side ones, it will blow air in the intake while also sucking air from the exhaust. therefore, upping airflow heavily.
Thanks for this. Funny and informative. Subbed. Did you HP Envy have a metal case? I think laptops with metal cases benefit more from having cooling air blown over them.
As an Alienware laptop user for me a laptop fan from dell actually was very helpful because it kept my computer from going over 200 degrees. I tested it as well it would only cap to 160 to 170 with the cooling pad but I do have tons of vents under my laptop and around the sides. Whenever one fan goes the temperature dramatically increases and the computer starts to burn me.
Edit: after replacing the battery and getting this fan my computer now sits on average at about 80-90 Fahrenheit
Your first problem was getting a alienware
@@gladier1 lol. Hey if it works, it works.
200! My max is a hundred
@@xcanton27 I maxed out ram and added ssds. My battery about a few days ago was on the verge of blowing up and I replaced it for a better battery.
200 degree Fahrenheit right?
if you have an vent where air is coming out, the purpose of the other vents is to let cold air in. In my laptops case, the hot air is blowing on the left side, and I have vents under the laptop. So a underside cooling pad, is effective for Mine.
if you have an AC you can put a pc fan on both ends of a pipe or tube and place one end near the AC so that it suck cold air and put the other end near you laptop cooling intake
i have a lenovo z580 from 9 years ago, i upgraded it with a ssd and 16 gigs of ram but the cpu was still idoling at 80C. I got a cooling pad for like 7 bucks and remove the bottom panel and it works like magic. the temperatures have dropped by atleast 10 or 15 degrees
I agree with you about the stand. I tried a few different cooling pads and they did little to help. I went with a stand which actually helped my laptop to stay as cool as it could.
Which stand? Just a regular one that uplifts your laptop from the front?
My laptop has a huge intake across the bottom, and an exhaust out of the left side. I definitely see a significant decrease in maximum temperature when I have it on a cooling pad.
My laptop's cooling base's fan is so weak that it literally makes no noise. You can't hear it. I believe that, although the difference is marginal, that it might cool a tiny little bit more than the stand.
Actually the vent on the bottom of the laptop is for Air intake while the vents on the side or back are intended for the exhaust. Manufacturers placed those exhaust on the back or side so that it'll exhaust the heat regardless of the laptop being on a flat surface or elevated.
some laptop only have bottom vent and no side vent
@@skeith7403 also his comment makes to sense. How would the laptop know out of which openings to intake air and to blow out?It only exhales. Personally I think all laptops should come with stands because some people keep placing it on flat surfaces where the air can't escape and wonder why it over heats. That's like having your mouth and nose covered by someone's hands, how you you breathe
@@virtualcity721 his comment made perfect sense, both intake and exhaust vents have corresponding fans which blow in their corresponding directions. most exhaust vents are on the side to prevent heat build up underneath the laptop, mine however, is on the bottom :(
It would make more sense to get a small desk fan and point it towards your keyboard, the heat radiating up from the keyboard will be constantly blown away from the fan and keep things cool.
This depends on what laptop you are using. Some intake from the bottom some on the side. Check your laptop first before buying.
laptops usually have better cooling when raised even by a little from the back. Because most do have vents on the back, allowing air to suck more in.
Watched til the end. Thanks for the intelligent review! I will now be getting a stand. Have you tried the add-on side fans?
Ok. This confirm what i thought well suspected already. As even in PC cases Mid Tower or smaller you can get temps high if there is no good exhaust fans in. Even better inatake and out take fans... Same is here. If you guys wanna good fans make sure to use ones with 4 wires. So it support PWM (fourth wire control fan speed based on temperature sensor)... in nutshell... Also see Specs about dB levels (noise). If you guys want cooling pads that are silent use passive ones. Right build material can have heat absorbing qualities or even models with additional thermal solution. There is talk about it on net so search. PC: Make sure you dust out your hardware at least 1-2 years depending where you live. Thanks for video. 💻
I might just be stupid but when I thought about using this with a laptop that has vents on the bottom made me think of spinning the laptop fans backwards and turning them into generators, they probably protect against that but some older models might not, and I was worried someone would kill their laptop with it.
Thank you, You seem honest.
I was planning on getting one but I looked at the laptop and all the vents are on the side and I had the exact thought that you mentioned, how do I know if I am not shoving air in the exhaust. Thanks for saving me the money
Newer gaming laptop majority of those have single blower style fans so cooling pad would be useless a stand is the way to go thank you bro for explaining
Thank you for sharing. Just orderer IceAge laptop cooler with 6 fans.
Thanks for video. I bought recently gaming laptop and noticed that it can be quite hot during games. Wanted to buy cooling pad, but then couple times saw article how they can be very damaging to internal parts (blowing air inside just to speed up dust accumulation and causing false-read for some sensors). After your video decided to invest in better laptop stand. Thanks for saving my money! 😀
thats only in theory though. i never seen anyone come out saying their internal hardware got damaged because of the external fan.
ive seen people say "oh using table fan directly to ps4 will interrupt its airflow etc" but no lol
dusts will be stucked to the cooler's fan, not the laptop. just have it cleaned once every 4 months
Bruh get a dust cover for the bottom of the fans and then it's all good
I hear the IETs gt500 is a pretty good one
@@PartyCrasher04 Thanks for advice! I looked it up and it's a very nice cooler - to have dust filters is a great feature.
@@CatBaloo I may consider purchasing it in the future, but first I’m definitely going to put thermal paste and see how it affects temps, I’ve undervolted and started playing games with my fans on max speed and it’s helping a lot, I personally may not need it but we’ll see
if u have a laptop with a metal frame then it essentially acts as a heat sink so getting a cooling pad helps alot
Here's my take.
I had a single fan cooling pad from Cooler Master first. My first cooling pad. Never had a stand. My laptop vent the heat out from the back and sucks it in form the bottom. So in my use case the cooling pad was on point.
However I felt moderately dissatisfied. It wasn't dust or clogging. I can open my laptop and service it myself just fine with the fans, ram, hdd, battery replwc, cleaning etc.
Some time later I bought another cooler master but this one had 4 fans. Unfortunately the air it blows is nowhere near enough. Perhaps it's just how low quality the cooling pads have become lately.
Seems like the actual good stuff starts at close to $80-100. Which may not be the right price margin for most people and consequently most would face disappointment.
Personally taking a strong wire or perforated mesh and attaching pc cabinet fans at the bottom of them while rigging them up to an external power source seems the best solution cooling wise but the comfort of having it in your lap would be gone. I guess that's the tradeoff here.
It's not always about the fans they do like 20% of the job, what you need is elevation. I'm also using a Legion 5 mainly for gaming and when my cooling pad legs broke (it was a cheap one like 20$ Thermaltake v20) I've been using it like that for a while but the difference is massive, my laptop started heating up a lot even in short sessions, when I bought a new cooling pad temps got back to normal.
Just sarapakarayb! Great vid, very helpful
I use them for my android boxes and they work great. I also sit my 2 tb hard drive connected to my android boxes on the cooling pad. I can feel the difference.
I have a laptop cooling pad. The fan on it wasn't impressive at all, but I like that the platform has pores which kinda catches the dust before it goes into the laptop itself, which is nice.
brooooo! such a good review. I loved it! Thanks!
One of these had no effect at all on my laptops' heat levels. When I switched to a device which blows air across it from the rear instead of into the bottom, that made an appreciable difference.
Could you recommend a model? Thank you!
the cooling pads do they have a cable to run them or do they run off the computer
the main question is
do this cooling pad affect on the battery and make it draining fast ? if i (only put the laptop on ac adapter 220v all the time so i don't use battery )
but if the battery is plugged in and i was runnign laptop on ac adapter will the battery affect bad ? plz help me and reply me i am going ot buy a new one
The Klim cyclone is great sitting up on my electric bed. The legs hold the laptop over my leg without cooking me when gaming .
What if my laptop's only source of ventilation is through the speakers which are below it?
My laptop has always been overheat and it ruins the performance but then I remembered I hat an air ventilator for on the ground now I put my laptop on it and the difference is huge from 81 degrees to 39 degrees
3:07 you need to keep the books stacked on one side, so the major underside vents are clear
Really good point there bro with the export fans on the bottom with import fans messing with the flow…. I have an Msi raider (pretty highly specked out though) so she gets HOT when I’m playing 7 days to die or ark on max settings. However my computer has import fans on the bottom with export in the back and the sides so I think this would probably work well for me i tried the whole prop it up (only I used for nicotine pouch packs lol) and it works well but it can be flimsy if I was to move the computer in literally any direction…. So that’s annoying actually I just took them off today and put it back how it was when I got it I’m gonna do more testing soon but I want something to help keep this baby cool and to help dust from building inside the computer as I live in a dusty environment unfortunately….
My laptop has ventilation at the bottom And it doesn't push air it sucks the air and pushes it out on the sides so maybe a cooling pad isn't the worst if ideas for me
I have same issue. I have HP ZBook 17 G3 workstation laptop it overheat so much that its cpu reaches 95+ degree so I purchased a 2 fan cooling pad but it still did not fixed my problem, temps were same. So I decided to change thermal paste, after applying new thermal paste temps were between 76-80degree on stand but 80-85degree on cooling pad I don't know why.
Sarapakarajb!
Tank yoou.
Dude you have Netter's book ! That is fascinating ❤
extracting the hot air is better then puting the laptop on a cooling pad
I actualy teted that, after I made a DIY extractor from cartbord and 2 Fans, mounting it on the exaust it cooled my laptop about 10-15C
Yes they will work, but only if the fan is pushing out not in
The only cooling that actually works in a laptop is opening the thing up, changing the thermal paste, cleaning the dusty fans and exhaust, elevating the laptop, and if u can, use one of those small USB fans and make it blow the hot air that's coming out of the laptop, away from it to the sides. Works like a charm.
Wdym by a usb fan? That actually sounds like a good idea but could u explain it to me little better
@@ikemanproductions7762 it's a tiny USB fan that you plug into the laptop, and adjust so that it blows the hot air away from the PC..you can type it in AliExpress it should show up. This is anecdotal, but for me I notice improvement.
@@moncef2466 thanks I just ordered one lmfao
@@ikemanproductions7762 You're welcome
@@moncef2466 which way do u face the fan tho?
Thanks man.
I only use the cooling pads whenever i play with a charger plugged in. The one being cooled by the pad is the charger.
💻 Thank you 💻 I never thought about them vents!! ^_^ Subscribed!! Cheers!!
For me I'm trying to revive my 2018 hp laptop the model didn't come with a fan and I been doing research and it said I have to hook up a fan on the bottom of the board but can't still find the connector so I been doing research about a cooling pad to prevent me dismantling my laptop each time, so I think I'ma find a cooling pad until I know where to connect my fan at.
Thank you so much
A cooling pad is absolutely not for blowing air into the laptop, it is for cooling down under trays setup for passive cooling, and that is the absolute best way to describe it. You can mod passive cooling into your under tray if its aluminium BTW, this will give you results if done right.
Its really important to understand how laptops often cool to ultimately answer this question. A gaming laptop for example will typically require more cooling so designers of the laptop often have them use metal under trays which have copper connecting thermal pads (thermal pad looks like bluetac, its effectively a type of tape that transfers heat, its used for component cooling in laptops, it is not the same as the cooling pads in question) from the CPU/GPU onto the underside of the laptop tray (similar to how the old school mac books pros did it), this burns the absolute crap out of your legs however when paired with one of these desk fans does actually make a difference.
Most general purpose laptops wont have a cooling setup like this due to how uncomfortable it is for the user, theyl just have two blower fans and all the heat is dissipated through those, if you use a cooling pad on this it absolutely will not make any difference. Its all about removing heat and a fan blowing cold air into the underside of your laptop when the laptop fans are doing the exact same thing at likely a higher RPM (so likely the pad just restricts air) and not through passive disipation is absolutely useless, if it wasnt then every desktop PC company, every server would have fans stacked 5 ontop of eachother, its just not how it works.
Its really hard for me to describe what im getting at here unless youve taken apart and seen many different models of laptop, but basically if you have an aluminium under tray to your laptop you can stick thermal pads between that and the CPU / GPU, itl make the part of the laptop that sits on your knee burning hot however when used in conjunction with a cooling pad, that is when you'll actually see a difference. The heat is inside the laptop and youve got to remove it. If you have the heat travel to the bottom tray of the laptop then a cooling pad makes a difference.
Thanks for ur time
@@DinaAle0609 lol
Everyone says "blows", but they all suck lol, although I've seen a couple that were reversible.
My takeaway is: I'll make my own damn cool er, by jerryrigging a nice laptop stand 👍
My Legion is all aluminium as well, and the whole thing heats up under load, so I could make a cooling plate for it, with copper ribs and fans, attached to the stand, I have a lot of flat aluminium surface to work with after all
Yes and no. Providing a higher volume of air at a faster rate to the intake fans will help with active cooling, not much but it will be effective. Blowing cool air across the entire bottom of the laptop will help with passive cooling which also provides benefits. Three or four large high volume slow(ish) turning fans will provide the most benefit with the lowest noise.
In this case he was really CPU limited and the cooling wasn't going to provide much benefit. If he had a more up to date laptop that was truely thermal throttling then most of these solutions would have helped some. You could put liquid nitrogen on an old laptop and get little to no beneift when running the latest version of Blender because the cpu itself is the limit.
Will be a one fan cooling pad for 12 inch laptop good for Xbox series S?
Thank YOU Very Much BRO!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for watching! ✨
Thnks brother ur video hepls me a lot
From the research I've seen, cooling pads can reduce the temperature but only by about 4° or 5° Celsius. So that's nice. But it's not significant especially for the extra noise
They have cooling pads with silent fans I can't hear mine what so ever
they work just by having more clear space between the resting surface and the laptop bottom, also if youre in a small space they help with air flow otherwise the hot exhaust just recirculates back to the laptop
my experiances with cooling pad is meh but it did make rge fps stable and no drops but it didnt increased much
Loved this
Cooling pads provide more than just cooling. In most cases, cooling pads will make an unnoticeable temperature difference. However, they can still provide:
1) A first line of defense from dust or create a space away from a surface that might become dusty. ie. a desk that you solemnly dust. The fans on the cooling pad will collect dust before getting to the fans of your computer.
2) Add a viewing better angle. Most cooling pads can be angled or raised and make it a lot easier on the neck. Looking down at a laptop definitely takes a toll on the back and neck over time.
I did I put a 2 books and on top of those books I put the laptop cooling pad man it was the best idea ever it works so good
In my opinion, a better way to cool down a laptop is to make a specialized attachment to connect to the exhaust and attach a fan and modify the cooling system. For what I did when I was poor and still am poor is put my laptop on top of the AC vent. But these is highly risky for your pc. Only do these if you can add a thin cloth
Everything you said and did is literally what a cooling pad offers lol
ISTP moment
@@_sayandas not really a coolin pad actually Forces room temperature air into your laptop in a inefficient way miles a modifications to the cooling grill to remove heat in a more efficient way. modifications/improvement
@@bluesharpie9744 mbti gentlemen be like
@@bluesharpie9744 what ISTP means?
if i make my room -10^oC will that improve my performace
My King. If not already done yet, please get a mic boom. It'll help your presentations so much more.
Thank you for the suggestion! This was an older video! The quality has definitely improved a lot recently 😄✨
Does that netter have cadaver bits?
I wonder if klim wind is actually worth it? 🤔🤔
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching! Your support is very much appreciated ✨
I have an acer aspire 7,i gamed the hell out of it as it had an gtx1650, i didn't pay attention to the airflow or temps ,then the heating issues started,after replacing thermal paste,adding another 8gig stick of ram,i understood the importance of laptop stands,got one of those cheap aluminum once on Amazon,and undervolted my cpu via throttlestop,now the laptop runs a bit cooler.tldr:- pay attention to the thermals and airflow.i wish i have known these things beforehand.
laptops exhaust hot air on the sides, not the bottom, the vents under the laptops are intake vents, and hot air rises so putting exhaust vents under the laptop makes no sense and can even make it hotter.
Propping the laptop up helps fresh air circulate under the laptop, that's is why cooling pads have fans on the bottom of the laptop to help push the air toward the intake vents, but since most cooling pad fans aren't fast enough so it doesn't help much.
I have friend who made a custom cooling pad using CPU cooler fans and it made his laptop drops to 45-48 degrees when he game
cool video thanks
For me my cooling pad works very well on the bottom of my computer but the very top where my gpu is it’s the hottest thing I’ve ever touched. That’s why I’m looking at videos because I’m just wondering if it’s safe that the top of my lab top is super hot but the bottom is a nice room temp
my laptop has the intake at the bottom and the exhaust on the sides and back
Great video bro
Thanks for watching Aabid!
Surely if a laptop has an exhaust then it also has an intake right? Air doesn’t magically blow out of the laptop. I suppose if the intakes are on the bottom of the laptop then a cooling pad might work like the AC of a car
That was my exact thoughts..
Are you saying it’s worth getting one?
🖥🤔 my Laptop is blowing or inhaling from the back and Blows out or in from up
air vents on bottom are intake, on sides are exhaust, and if on top like some asus rog & tuf thats another intake.
Well I just unscrew bottom panel that was covering Ram slots and Hard disc slot and use cooling pad under that. That worked about 40% better than with covers
LOL, this feeling when I bought Lenovo Legion 5 as well and watching videos to find out if I need to buy a cooling pad 😅
I have a Razer Blade 15 Advanced and I want a to buy a cooling pad or fan not to improve the performance or lower the CPU/GPU temperature (since the laptop already does a really good job), but to cool the aluminum chasis... Aluminum laptops do benefit of having a cooling pad or fan to cool the chasis off, since they can get quite hot while playing heavy games. And since the chasis works as a passive cooling system, its a win win
Im sitting here after buying 3 different cooling pads. What i found out is those USB cooling fans do nothing to bring your temps down. The only cooling pads that work are those 240v industrial cooling pads. these USB pads are just a gimmick.
Hi there! I have a laptop with no fan just bare copper plate directed at its cpu so I bought a cooling pad that has a stand and yes my vents is on the side however what I did is instead of directly blowing air to the laptop I flipped the fan so that heat will be directed at the bottom which did good however I dont know if it will work for other units.
hey. I'm just curious about your laptop regarding without a cooling fan. it's a little weird for me that a pc without a fooling fan, I you don't mind, what is the brand and the exact unit of your laptop?
in my case the only thing really reduce laptop temp is the laptop fans speed
i like your informative videos
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it 🙏🏾
I have a g14 and stays pretty cool but then again my home is around 60 degrees
Hey there, this is the first day that a have cooling pad for my gaming laptop. i will see in the future how this will be, with the gaming performance and how the laptop will work. The cooler has stage speeds of cooling.
you bro i use vantilator for cooling my laptop and it works really good
what about areas like pakistan that get very hot in summer?
So in principle, next time I get really hot during a heat wave, I just need to lift my ass up on some bricks or some kind of meshed chair? No fans or AC necessary right?
Can we increase fan speed?
How about Acer Aspire 5? I don't know where its vent.
cheers bro
A cooling stand will work much better, on a gaming laptop with large openings at the bottom. The fans suck air from the bottom a squeeze it out to the back and/or the side, under a closed office type laptop it can not work so well, of course. If you only have 1 or 2 openings at the bottom the best cooler needs to be directly under the fans blowing fresh air into, otherwise it will not work.
And you have to compare the temperature differcence under the same workload at idle. If the laptop is cooler, the processore under stress will likely not throttle so much, but almost reach the same temperature as before, so you could think the coler does nothing, but it does.
Why do you own a Netter atlas?
My laptop at full power uses 80 watt, very hard to cool on a 2-in-1. Cooling pad or die.