Do Laptop Cooling Pads Work? Don't buy until you watch this!

UPDATE!!!:
Hey everyone! Thanks so much for watching this video! I understand that I made some mistakes in certain segments of this video and I've done my best to correct them in the updated version!
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One issue a lot of laptop users face is fan noise and overheating and arguably the most well known solution is the use of laptop cooling pads, but do these pads actually work? Let's find out.

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[markkocsicska]

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.

[jordy]

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

[Veretax]

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

[geniussnake]

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 🙂

[szymondemski]

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

[dyslexicsteak]

Laptops never exhaust from the bottom, those are intake vents

[whitehatdaily]

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.

[JohnMFlores]

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.

[Le_Sourpuss]

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.

[StevenZagaris]

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.

[micklawrence]

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.

[HaSaN-desr]

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

[nabeeliscool]

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

[JohnLumapaskeith]

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.

[skygames]

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. 💻

[fenrisstark]

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

[charliestuna]

Watched til the end. Thanks for the intelligent review! I will now be getting a stand. Have you tried the add-on side fans?

[davidcox]

the cooling pads do they have a cable to run them or do they run off the computer

[zubair]

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

[blingbling]

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.