laptop cooling pad

chili · 30 Sep 2011 at 12:24

what laptop cooling pad would you suggest for an alienware m17x? i seem to be unable to find anyone in the uk stocking an nzxt cryo, so what are the next best cooling for a 17" er

thanks

was looking at the coolermaster notepal u3 but it got some poor reviews

chili · 2 Oct 2011 at 16:11

a gentle bump, nobody got any opinions on this?

Metalface Mark · 2 Oct 2011 at 17:42

do you feel it needs a pad? Unless you are looking to overclock it hasnt seemed hot to me.

TheVoice · 2 Oct 2011 at 18:24

Don't think I've ever read a review of these that made more than a couple of degrees of difference. Whenever I was using my notebook for long periods of time, I'd prop the back of it up with some coasters or something similar, that would see temps drop 4-5 degrees in some cases.

chili · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:47

it feels hot directly in the middle of the base where the engraved plate is, maybe its just me as this is my 1st laptop.

Metalface Mark · 3 Oct 2011 at 19:26

chili said:
it feels hot directly in the middle of the base where the engraved plate is, maybe its just me as this is my 1st laptop.

Run coretemp on it to see the temps.

chili · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:55

Metalface Mark said:
Run coretemp on it to see the temps.

just tested with coretemp after my lappy has been on for 5 hours and its steady at 50 degrees on all 4 cores

Metalface Mark · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:01

chili said:
just tested with coretemp after my lappy has been on for 5 hours and its steady at 50 degrees on all 4 cores

Ill have a look at mine when im next with it, its at my girlfriends house, i think when i was playing wow it went up to about 75C or something like that.

ninja2000 · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:57

The internal temps are great on this laptop, it doesnt need a laptop cooler. That being said, I sit mine on a zalman nc2000 when working at my desk on an external screen. The only reason being I bought it for my xps16 which was a scorching bucket of poo!.

With the zalman the temps are a few degrees lower and the fans hardly ever ramp up whilst gaming and rarely come on surfing the net.
I also noticed, just by elevating the rear you get far better temps.

But to proove it isnt necessary, I took it to a lan evening and gamed on it for 5 hours with the gpu heavily overclocked and the laptop was still cool on the top and only hot in the area mentioned (ie the nametag area). the internal temps maxed out at 71c for the gpu and mid 70's on the cpu which is amazing.

chili · 6 Oct 2011 at 01:27

many thanks metalface mark, my main rason for the tray was like you say to ramp the back up to allow a better airflow