Good laptop cooling pads?

[Sunset.F Breaker]

Wanted to know if there are any good ones at 30$, the ones that I have seen doesn't have the best reviews which is fair since they're worth 30$ bucks lol
Thanks for the help

[MoonC A T]

try one of these instead of a bulky pad

https://www.amazon.com/IETS-Temperature-Side-Draft-Intelligent-Adjustable/dp/B07DND16MN/ref=asc_df_B07DND16MN/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533458241275&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13479283018400171089&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033255&hvtargid=pla-1390952692246&psc=1

[hawkeye]

I wouldn't recommend a cooling pad. You need a solution that delivers cool air right to the mobo. The device shown above looks more promising especially as it has a temperature monitor. Also ensure the laptop interior is dust and lint-free.

[kingjames488]

perhaps?
https://bensdryice.com/products/dry-ice-block

[A&A]

Cooling pad for 15$ is enough, but for the same money, you can buy thermopaste, if you are out of warrenty and never changed it sience day 1, then this will decrease the temps with 5°C and small heatsings with thermal glue for spreading the heat at bigger surface.

[Talby]

I use a thermaltake massive v20, got it on sale for $20 and it's decent. Any cooler will do as long as the mesh is breathable and non-restrictive - the single fan keeps high flow / low noise (a dual 140 mm or 120mm) don't get the ones with many small fans.

agree I didn't see good results until I modded the bottom panel for breathability, where the intake fans are and the ssd are good points to swiss-cheese with a 1/4" drill bit and glue in some mesh for filtering, and finally kept my laptop under 90C (was constantly hitting 100C before I got the cooler & bottom panel mod, HP Pavilion of course lol, i5 w/1050ti )

[Crawl]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sunset.F Breaker:

Wanted to know if there are any good ones at 30$, the ones that I have seen doesn't have the best reviews which is fair since they're worth 30$ bucks lol
Thanks for the help

If you only have $30 to spend I wouldn't bother. The only laptop coolers that I've used that actually made any real difference are the ones that create a seal around the bottom of the laptop (assuming your laptop is bottom intake obviously) and have high flow fans to force in air like the KLIM Mistral or IETS GT500 both of which are in the $50-100 range. While they both lowered temps a decent amount they are extremely loud, so loud in fact that I stopped using them. I currently just use a block to prop the rear of the laptop up off the desk a couple of inches to help air flow.

[Talby]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Crawl:

... The only laptop coolers that I've used that actually made any real difference are the ones that create a seal around the bottom of the laptop...

A bead of hot glue works just as well on the cheap...

[anrkyuk]

Do not waste your money on a "cooling pad" unless at least half, maybe a third of your laptop underside is ventilated.

Before buying anything, I would advise getting some drinks coasters and placing 3 or 4, stacked, in each of the back corners of the laptop, taking care not to block any vents on the underside when doing so and seeing what difference that makes.

I have multiple laptops, one of which is a Toshiba S70 (i7 4700HQ, R9 265X), this was, 9 years ago my OTG laptop and under heavy load the CPU would hit 100c, so I bought a Cooler Master U laptop cooler (the original, not the U2 or U3) for it. The difference it made, with two 120mm fans under the laptop, just 1c.

[MoonC A T]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von anrkyuk:

, I would advise getting some drinks coasters and placing 3 or 4, stacked, in each of the back corners of the laptop, taking care not to block any vents on the underside when doing so and seeing what difference that makes.

When I had a gaming laptop I bought those large rubber feet and used double stick tape to attach them in the same way...

Problem is, when used on the lap, it doesn't really help unless you have a board or something on your lap.