Top 9 Hacks to Keep Your Gaming Laptop COOL! ❄️💻

These are 9 easy to do hacks to keep your gaming laptop running cool! Avoiding overheating will improve performance and help your laptop last longer.

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Top 9 Tips to Cool Your Gaming Laptop Timestamps:
0:00 High Temps = Bad
0:21 Video Sponsor - Acer Predator Helios 18
1:07 Tip #1 - Super Easy & Big Improvements
1:45 Tip #2
2:22 Careful - Some Laptops May Run Hotter With These Changes
3:07 Tip #3
4:04 Tip #4
4:44 Tip #5
5:33 Tip #6
6:35 Tip #7
7:42 Tip #8
8:39 Tip #9
9:45 Even More Tips to Improve Your Gaming Laptop!

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[many_worlds]

another tip, use your laptop in Antarctica so it can stay cool and you won't be needing an additional cooler

[Michel-dxbn]

the fact that a video about keeping your laptop cooler is sponsored by an 18" laptop is one of the best coincidences I've ever seen

[akel]

The irony that this video is sponsored by Acer predator helios 18, one of the hottest running laptops and u cant undervolt

[tanixqued]

Best tip: Use your Laptop in a room with air conditioner. life changer specially if youre from warmer countries

[darkmaster]

Hack no 10: Activate all the rgb lights

[backers]

Been a GT500 user for my Legion 5 2021 for 3 years, and it still cools my laptop very well. The fact that it can cool my laptop so much that the fans doesn't have to spin most of the time especially during simple tasks means the cooling pad really just works. And lower temps means longer life for my laptop.

[UnknownYT]

Environment/room temperature is the largest culprit & should be considered first. Best example of this is during the heat wave in Asia a few months ago. You're literally blowing hot air coming out of exhaust vents into your machine once the fans kick in.

[ortson]

perfect display of strategy from Jarrod here. first get us to watch his videos to buy gaming laptops, then get us to watch his videos to cool this hot mess

[tarfeef_]

Don't turn down texture quality, that's generally just a GPU memory check, not a performance/power consuming setting! And it has a huge visual impact!

[VladAspida]

Another tip from me, after your laptop is out of waranty and you are really looking for more airflow, you could do some reserch and drill some holes on the back plate. I did this on my old Asus TUF laptop, there were grooves for holes but they were not open, so i opened them myself. Did some reserch and i think they decided not to open the holes for a lot of low end gaming laptops, even tho opening them helped a lot

[jayemmzz]

For tip #2, I'll only really recommend Ilano or IETS as a laptop cooler. Im surprised not a lot of laptop reviewers get how good the vacuum sealed type coolers are, decrease temps of around 15-20C and a lot of them come with an air filter so that theyre always blowing clean air most of the time and not packed with dust. "The greatest technician thats ever lived" finally got a hold of it, now i just hope other tech reviewers actually give it a chance cuz its really really good, and i personally own one. Now i can use my laptop as a main station without worrying about temps

[nickochioneantony]

Additional tip:

#1 Disable Turbo Boost, by limiting ur CPU power to its listed spec, you virtually lose nothing while gaming. It decrease my temp from 88c to 75c .

#2 choose 'balanced' profile or tweak ur GPU to perform in lower Wattage than its listed spec. My 3060 mobile has 90w tdp, and I don't have any feature to limit it, but my laptop 'balanced' profile let it run on 65w tdp. It never went up higher than 70c.

These 2 tips might turn people off becauss it's limiting performance, but after I tried, I feel like the loss is miniscule compared to the anxious feeling of deeling with crazy high temps.

[pinocleen]

Regarding cooling pads, it is sometimes feasible to reverse the fan's polarity to align it with the laptop's airflow direction.

[MSR]

the best thing about laptop cooling pad like Llano V3 is that it basically filter the dust on the cooling pad thus leaving you laptop fan much cleaner. this helps a lot especially if you have furry pets.

[deschubby]

As a technician for 20yrs, the theory is good exhaust need good intake, we use to cut holes for those bad design laptop without much intakes holes at the bottom.
Stand is at least a must, the gap for intake to draw air at the bottom were too tiny restricting intake..

[thetyphon]

Here's, most significant technique, that can drop your temp. for almost 15°C. It's disabling turbo boost CPU.

You could do it through Control Panel > Choose a power plan > Change plan settings (I made another power plan so I can switch between WITH turbo boost or WITHOUT turbo boost anytime) > Change advance power settings > Pick the "Processor power management" > Pick the "Maximum processor state" and set to 99% and pick the "Processor performance boost mode" and set to Disabled.

That's it and voila, for gaming, it's actually really useful, knowing that most games are GPU bound, so lowering CPU performance isn't that bad, its even make higher performance you got for some games. Though ofc this technique is not recommended for CPU bound games such as Valorant.

[LTT.Official]

I pretty much change out my thermal paste whenever I clean my fans for the first time, it just makes sense since the thing is already opened.

[Deeptesh]

Ask Intel and AMD to unlock all the chips for undervolting. Not just the HX or 9 variants. That's the biggest tip for cooler temps.

[cihaztvvideo]

You can also limit the CPU Wattage. Many laptop processors reach unnecessary wattage levels. In this way, a temperature drop of 20-25 degrees Celsius is possible in games without feeling almost any performance difference. (There may be a noticeable difference in competitive games that require processor power, but I can say that there will be almost no difference in AAA games.) For example, 30-35w power is enough for Ryzen 5/7 6000/7000/8000 series processors. For Intel 12/13/14H/HX processors, you can try 45-65W limit. You can use UXTU software to limit AMD processors and Throttlestop software to limit Intel processors. There's no harm in trying, you can find the ideal processor wattage of your laptop with a few tries.

[TheMrMetallozkar]

By the way, that laptop stand is very good, I've been using it for my gaming laptop and it's super easy to set up, is very portable and does a good job of keeping the laptop cool/elevated. The only thing I would say is when it arrived the box for the product was very tatty, the product wasn't damaged at all and it worked fine/as new, but it was pretty clear that it was a return from another customer, or that it had just been badly kept in a warehouse somewhere. Anyway, I would also highly recommend it.