Laptop cooling pads worth it?

[mikeespino]

Hi so I’ve been looking for cooling pads for my Dell Inspiron 15 5577, because whenever I play games it gets really hot. Especially Fortnite and PUBG, even when idle it gets warm and the fans speeds up so it gets loud, even when playing simple games the fans speed up. I’ve cleaned the whole laptop replaced thermal paste and everything, it did change degrees a bit, but not too much. So I decided to check out laptop cooling pads and, I found this. The Cooler Master NotePal X3 for around 40$ on Amazon, checked reviews and a lot must be happy about it, but I just wanted to make sure so. I don’t go wasting 40$ on something that don’t benefit, will it really help keep my laptop cool for good?
Full Laptop specs
Dell Inspiron 15 5577
I7-7700hq
Gtx 1050 4gb
16gb ddr4 ram
NVME Samsung 961 512gb

Temps
Idle 50-60 degrees
Fortnite around 80-90 degrees
PUBG around 90-100 degrees
Roblox 60-70 degrees
NFS undercover 70-80 degrees
NFS hot pursuit 70-80 degrees

Oh yeah also forgot to mention, I don’t use my laptop on my bed and I do have some kind of those mini table, or like lap pads for better airflow, but that didn’t help much.

 

[jaslion]

Hi so I’ve been looking for cooling pads for my Dell Inspiron 15 5577, because whenever I play games it gets really hot. Especially Fortnite and PUBG, even when idle it gets warm and the fans speeds up so it gets loud, even when playing simple games the fans speed up. I’ve cleaned the whole laptop replaced thermal paste and everything, it did change degrees a bit, but not too much. So I decided to check out laptop cooling pads and, I found this. The Cooler Master NotePal X3 for around 40$ on Amazon, checked reviews and a lot must be happy about it, but I just wanted to make sure so. I don’t go wasting 40$ on something that don’t benefit, will it really help keep my laptop cool for good?
Full Laptop specs
Dell Inspiron 15 5577
I7-7700hq
Gtx 1050 4gb
16gb ddr4 ram
NVME Samsung 961 512gb

Temps
Idle 50-60 degrees
Fortnite around 80-90 degrees
PUBG around 90-100 degrees
Roblox 60-70 degrees
NFS undercover 70-80 degrees
NFS hot pursuit 70-80 degrees

They only help a little bit. Maybe a couple degrees but not much. I just got a cheap 5€ laptop stand from ebay to lift it up a bit higher from the table so it could pull in more air easily and that helped a bit but not much.

If you want to see the impact for yourself just prop the legs of the laptop up a bit with something and see if it makes a difference if not then it's indeed wasted money if it does then maybe looking into something cheap is a good idea.

Also you might just have some dust in your laptop limiting the cooling.

 

[punkncat]

I have had great results from powered/vented laptop pads. The biggest issue being noise. Every one of the passive ones I have ever gotten just ended up getting hot as well.

 

[mikeespino]

Well like what I said, I did clean it so it should’t have must dusts in the vents, and I do have a lap desk for it for better airflow. And sometimes I put a book under my laptop so it gets better airflow, in the middle now.