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

I've had this pad for 3 and a half years and while I've had to just replace the power cable for the third time it still works perfectly and I have it on at least 16 hours every day. It's amazing.

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.

I've used a number of different laptop coolers for gaming laptops I've owned since I try and take very good care of my electronics to make them last as long as possible.As a reference, I'm using the Acer Predator Helios 300 (2018) version (15.6") with this cooler.With gaming laptops two things are essentially 'enemies' of these devices: 1. Heat and 2. Dust.The dust vent very much intrigued me as well as the very high fan speed (4500 RPMs) since almost no coolers I've found out there go above 2500 RPMs.First, let me deal with the only negative I really have about this cooler - the fan noise. For me, it's not a major issue since I use headphones and I'm not typically around anyone that would get annoyed by the noise so it's not a deal-breaker by any means. However, it does get quite loud on the highest setting (there are three settings) so I definitely wouldn't recommend this to anyone who uses their laptop around others that are noise sensitive. The buzzing, even on the lowest setting, could irritate people around you over long periods of time.The cooling is quite efficient. It seems to do even better than other laptop coolers I've used. It might have something to do with the fact that it 'seals' off the area underneath the laptop so that the only air that gets in is through the vents in the back. There's very little (if any) air leakage from around the laptop itself. I've been able to drop my CPU temperature to around 24-25C when idling with the fan speed on the first setting.The fans have 3 settings. I don't know the RPM rating for each setting but the advertised maximum is 4500 RPMs.The removal of dust by the vents in the back is spectacular! I've been using the cooler for just over a week and at the end of each day I take my laptop off of the cooler and check the vents and they have ZERO dust build-up. As a control, I've used other coolers and after a day of typical usage or gaming I would always have at least a bit of a build-up around the outer vents. With this one - zero. I'm now at just over a week and there's absolutely no dust I can see on the underside of the gaming laptop. Bravo. :)The plastic 'lip' for a 14-15" laptop is already installed when you get the cooler. There's a plastic bag with the bigger plastic 'lip' for 17" laptops. The 'lip' is just a raised up piece of plastic that's attached to the inner circle of the cooler to provide a 'seal' between the bottom of your laptop and the cooler to prevent dust from entering in from there.Next comes the colored lights. The lights I don't really care about. There are a few different colors and they're nice to look at but with this, I was entirely interested in the cooling and dust removal - everything else was superfluous. People have mentioned that it doesn't 'save' the last light you were on when switched off? I haven't noticed that. If I switch it to blue and then turn the cooler off and then wait a few seconds and turn it back on, it's on blue. *shrug* Works for me. ;)The clamps on the front of the laptop do a very good job, along with the rubber seal around the laptop, of keeping the device very firmly settled. You have to provide a good amount of force to get it to move off of the seal and clamps when they're attached.The legs were a bit iffy to me. I'm used to the metal-bar type where you just adjust the height through a metal-ring type of apparatus and it's securely fastened. This cooler uses angled legs with notches. To me, now, it's not an issue since I don't use the legs. I let the laptop lay flat on my bed. The cooling vents are on the back top so there's nothing being blocked even with the legs not extended.Oh, and yeah, this cooler is absolutely fantastic for using on a bed without any trouble at all that I've found. :)The cooler is well built. It doesn't feel cheap with nothing that I've noticed that's going to die or fall off within a few months. ;)Overall the cooler is very well made. I took away 1 star due to the noise it makes when operating. Outside of that, it's solidly built and does its job very well. It is a *tad* expensive but if it lasts a few years I think it'll be well worth the money to 'preserve' your laptop from dying prematurely. :)