GT300 Double Blower Laptop Cooling Pad for 14-17 Inch Gaming Laptop, Cooler Pad with Dust Filter, Flexible Rubber Ring, Colorful Lights,Adjustable Mount Stand,Third Gear Speed

The TLDR version: Do you have a gaming laptop? A cooling pad is absolutely essential if you're running an Alienware laptop, or any gaming laptop with dedicated graphics co-processor. Of the many cooling pads I've tried, this is the one that has actually delivered immediate and lasting benefit, as proven by a significant reduction in both measured processor temperature and laptop fan speed. This is the one you're looking for.Want to learn more? Read on...The reason you need a cooling pad is that these gaming laptops run HOT. Really HOT. Almost insanely HOT.I have an Alienware 15 R4. It has an Intel I9 processor, 32 Gb of RAM, and an Nvidia dedicated graphics card with its own 8Gb of graphics RAM (and its own fan). A set of processors like this would present a cooling challenge even in a desktop tower. It's kind of insane to these into the confines of a laptop case, and the laptop makers know it. So, any decent gaming laptop already has a pretty robust cooling system onboard. It has to, to keep the thing from melting. The cooling systems on these laptops have to work really hard. You can hear them roaring, trying to keep up with rising temperatures inside the laptop.Now, the Alienware comes with a monitor utility called the Command Center that shows temperature and cooling fan speed for both the main processor and the graphics card. If you pay attention to the internal temperatures present in your gaming laptop you can observe and measure how hard the cooling system has to work.To make things easier for the cooling system you can run a laptop cooling pad to assist the onboard system. I've gone through maybe half a dozen of these cooling pads from different unknown makers trying to find one that actually inspires confidence, and this is the one that won, hands down.This cooling pad has a pair of three speed fans that you can control with a little panel on the front of the base. This serious fan capacity is designed to force-feed outside air into the laptop's air intakes, making it easier for the laptop's internal fans to do their job.The proof? Checking Alienware's Command Center utility before running this cooling pad, the fans were running typically at 70% speed and the CPU and GPU were running, typically, at around 65 to 70 degrees C. This means the internal cooling system was working, but was having to work pretty hard to keep temperatures under control. If the laptop's internal fans had a problem things could get way too hot really quickly. How hot is too hot? A processor temperature of 100 degrees C. will destroy your processor. Irretrievable internal damage. Cooked.With this cooling pad running at mid-speed, the laptop's own fan speed began to come down almost immediately. This means the laptop's own fan system wasn't having to work as hard to achieve the same degree of cooling. Lagging slightly behind fan speed, the temperatures of both the main processor and the graphics processor came down as well. After only a few minutes of running the cooling pad's fans at mid speed the laptop's own fan speed settled at about 50%, and the critical main processor and graphics processor each settled at about 49 or 50 degrees C.So, with this cooling pad, the laptop's own fans aren't working as hard, but still the system is running 15 or 20 degrees C. cooler than before. Put another way, without this pad, the laptop's own fans were working a lot harder just to keep the internal temperature from rising to dangerous levels. This pad delivered a significant reduction in both laptop fan speed and processor temperature. These are real-world positive results that I observed and measured on my own high performance gaming laptop. Running this cooling pad will likely extend the life of the system.I consider this cooling pad to be an essential accessory for any laptop running gaming-grade hardware. Of the many cooling pads I've tried, this is the one that ended my search for a cooling pad that actually works. This is the cooling pad you're looking for. This is the one to get.

The last laptop cooling pad I had was the Cooler Master NotePal X3. It didn't help even half as much as this pad has.I've got an MSI Apache Pro GE72 that can play most games on medium or high settings. But, depending on the game and settings, this can shoot the temperatures (especially the CPU temps) very high. I recently attempted to play a game I've had for a while and the temps of both CPU and GPU shot into the high 80s/low 90s (Celsius). While laptops are designed to withstand hotter temps than desktops, I wasn't comfortable playing a game for long periods with those temps. Which meant I couldn't play it. I'd recently refunded a new game specifically because of this issue.I was expecting to see slight to moderate improvement. If this laptop pad had gotten the temps down into the 70s, I'd have been pleased. It didn't. It dropped them all the way down to 48C-51C. That's a *massive* improvement. I even turned up the graphics and changed the Shift Mode out of Green Mode (Green Mode being a mode in the MSI Dragon utility meant to help reduce temperatures at the cost of performance). No change. I mean, I've seen those temps just messing around in my browser, never while playing a game (even a game that isn't heavy on resources like Stardew Valley).Now, as other reviews have mentioned, the rubber gasket that comes pre-installed is for 15" laptops. It comes with a larger 17" one and the pad has a larger spot for installing that gasket. It's extremely easy to install (it's basically just pushing the rubber ring into an indent that has four spots where the ring hooks under tabs - none of which involves the strugglebus). My laptop has two vent areas, a very large one in the middle and a very small one at the back and to the side, so the pad only hits the middle one. I can move the laptop off-center so the small vent could (maybe) be over the fans, but since my laptop has feet, the smaller vent isn't blocked and additional cooling isn't needed. That said, my laptop (due to the feet) does not sit flush with the pad. So I can feel some air escaping. Despite that, the cooling is fantastic. Obviously, this pad would only work if you've got intake vents on the bottom of your laptop.The pad comes with these little "dampers" to fit over the pad's vents for if your laptop has vents at the back (mine does). They are horizontal with the pad and just block airflow between the laptop's exhaust vents and the pad's intake vents. The dampers are just black, thin cardboard/paper, so I imagine them getting damaged over time, especially if you move your laptop a lot. But it's still a nice touch and you could easily rig something more permanent or replace the dampers easily.There are also plastic hooks in the front designed to fit over the front of the laptop to help keep it in place. I initially was disappointed because they didn't reach (my laptop is quite thick), but these tabs are actually very adjustable. They adjust up/down and there are additional slots they can be fitted into so you can move your laptop forward/backward on the pad. They are also just straight up removable. So the hooks fit just fine once I realized that.. And the last adjustable thing are the legs. Very, very adjustable when it comes to height and tilt.As for lights, I didn't care. I'm not buying this for lights but to keep my laptop from degrading and breaking due to high temps. But, as another review mentioned, there's not seven solid colors. There are three: blue, green, and fuschia. There is also a color-change light that runs through all the colors and then some (sea-green, orange, yellow, white, light pink, etc). The lights can also just be turned off while running the fans.Speaking of fans, they're decently noisy, regardless of speed. It doesn't bother me because I play music while gaming, but I can see it being annoying to some. But totally worth it, in my opinion. That said, the lowest speed is barely noticeable while playing a video through a DOSS Soundbox speaker.Lastly, as everyone else has mentioned, this pad isn't for your lap. It's not designed for it and it's relatively heavy (for a pad).