test is trash. i ran dell test. said i need new hard drive. i turned sideways and blasted with $5 fan and highly decreased temps and retested with ZERO issues and ultra setting capabilities. They build laptops like most appliances full of throw away trash parts bought at lowest bid for biggest profit.
+Exlecticution my dell Inspiron 15R (5537) bought in April of 2014 died after two years. Yes, two years... I was using a laptop cooler when gaming but the laptop died, fuck it.
+Android Gaming nooo the i7 was Ultra low voltage, he was never over 80ºand 85º in summer No idea about the gpu, an amd lol But after more than a year and a half the system was unstable, loosing wifi, no Bluetooth, and touchpad no responsive sometimes. I should have called dell bcse in France we have a 2 years warranty, but after the dell warranty of one year, we have to prove we re not the cause of the issue (pretty hard to prove lol) I will never buy a laptop over 500€ again
+BaboonArt i also have a dell laptop that has an intel core i7 5500u i think and a geforce gtx 840m i used to play csgo smoothly but after a couple of months it started throttling i guess because the game was getting a bit sluggish so iam planning to buy a laptop cooler like the havit cooler
+Steve Ozone mine's got an intel processor but has a radeon graphics card and yes, this shit heats as hell as always, linus testing on hardware very few people has why desn't he test any "average" laptop with a discrete gpu? that shit has more vents than I have money whereas my laptop has ony one air in and one air out with that vent like most laptops
My laptop used to get up to 100 Celsius and crash while playing Skyrim. It was so hot it would burn my hands and fingers, and the fans blew out air so hot that they once melted a stick of deodorant I accidentally left by my laptop. One day I just got sick of it and ordered a super nice cooling pad and one of those vacuum fans that attaches to the exhaust vents. Now my CPU doesn't get above 65 and my gpu never above 75. The fans helped a ton, so I can personally say they work. Skyrim didn't crash after that either.
I've done that they both do about the same work. I have a really good cooling pad, so it pushes a ton of air through the laptop, then the vent pulls it out on the other end. Maybe its just intake vent placement for yours. My fan blows directly into it. Plus my GPU is on the otherside where I dont have another vent vacuum fan.
Jesus my laptop is clean as it gets. I dismantle it for cleaning every couple weeks it makes no difference. My laptop just has a very poor cooling setup like most laptops.
Cooling pads were never meant to increase performance (how could they? Its not an extra RAM, CPU or anything like that), but decrease heat stress on the laptop, so why test performane when it wont affect it (short term at least)? The only relevant thing to test if it increases cooling, and it did, so it works.
I think they were testing thermo throttling so without the cooler they expected it to cut back and thus lose performance compared to the cooler pad which would stop throttling and result in higher performance
Calle Nilsson but when the PC is cooler doesnt it run faster, beacuse when my PC overheats i get FPS drops all the time. And when i use a normal desk fan i dont get any FPS drops
+Erik Murin Because they take a wide shot for the whole video and then zoom when they want to do reactions, or focus or something in the frame. Nobody behind the camera I guess. When you have a frame that's 1080p and zoom in on a small portion of it it'll be lower resolution.
I have a notebook cooler and it works great! My laptop used to be around 80 degrees Celsius but now it's around 60-70 degrees Celsius and my games are now getting a few extra fps. So it's worth it. I know the temps before are still good, but because I overclock my laptop I want to decrease the temperature as much as possible.
I thought the point of a laptop cooler was to prolong the life of the laptop not to boost performance. As you said, "...heat is one of the biggest factors when it comes to premature hardware death." Isn't that reason enough to recommend using a laptop cooler?
@Hatwox yes but the fact that it gets to those high temps and then only throttles is what hurts the hardware anyway,keeping it cool at ALL times will prolong it so much more
For some unknown reason, this video showed on my feed today on November 2019. I had great time watching your videos back in the days. Miss you my old friend, NCIX.
Old video, but I'd like to say that the best cooler I've *ever* used was a Notepal U3 Plus cooler. You could place the fans where you needed them which meant a truly customizable laptop cooler. I've had a couple others with a single fan in the middle and channels that supposedly would let hot / cool air flow that plain out sucked.
But my laptop has one vent on the bottom and one hidden behind the hinge (Asus FlipBook TP550L) with an i5-5200U and 4 Gigs of ram) Can you try less powerful laptops on a maybe part 2? With more realistic choices that are less expensive?
ok linus, what about a laptop like a he pavilion that isn't as optimized as that MSI laptop. my one is a bit older and doesn't have as many vents as antony's
For anyone watching this in 2019 and on. If you can take the lid off the bottom of your laptop and let the fans blow directly on the cpu and gpu you can see double the reduction in cooling temps and it will make a difference in performance im you are already boardering the thermal throttle points
So I do my own test and this is the result. What I use = Cooler Master Notepal CMC3 and CINEBENCH R15 The result Using Cooling Pad CINEBENCH Score CPU = 318 cb OpenGL = 44.97 fps Temperature CPU = MAX 77C CPU1 = MAX 77C CPU2 = MAX 77C CPU3 = MAX 64C CPU4 = MAX 64C GPU = MAX 54C NOT using Cooling Pad CINEBENCH Score CPU = 318 cb OpenGL = 44.89 fps Temperature CPU = MAX 80C CPU1 = MAX 80C CPU2 = MAX 80C CPU3 = MAX 69C CPU4 = MAX 69C GPU = MAX 60C I hope this helps.
What a sloppy and messed up review Linus , you usually do a better job .... The main goal of those laptop coolers is not to bring performance into the table at all man .. BUT temps reduction and the associated benefits it will provide to the cramped hardware inside that portable system , the real goal of any laptop cooler review is to determine if that specific product really works, when you game on with a USD$ 2500+ gaming laptop for 8 hours and you want at least -10C outta the GPU / CPU by using one of these on a flat clean surface, sadly that MSI unit you decided to use (thanks god it wasn't the fancy razer) is not the best sample unit to test out this , you should have used a bigger unit such as the MSI GT70-GT72 , alienware M17/M18 , asus ROG 17 , we are talking about high end REAL frying pans !
I use a Cooler Master Notepal U3 Plus. It has a grilled surface and three 80mm adjustable fans with adjustable speed. But it's not very good to have the fans facing to the air intakes because it pushes a lot of dust into the laptop and it won't take long for the dust inside to prevent hot air to be blowned through the vents and therefore it will raise the CPU and GPU temperatures. It's best to use the pad without fans to just have more space between the laptop and the flat surface so the laptop fans have more airflow to cool the components easier.
Linus should do the same but with the New Macbook and see if a notebook cooler help that shit get better performance similar to his watercooling video.
+Crimson Koba I think that's the sort of laptop that most coolers are meant for now; small form factor, shit cooling, but high performance. Obviously that last one doesn't apply to the macbook, but still.
+DUCKDUDE4100 that did make me chuckle. I recently checked the "build your macbook" thing on their website and the best GPU you can get in a £2k (in price conversion it's like $3k, but Apple seems to just replace the $ with £ when selling here in the UK, so it would be cheaper across the pond) Macbook Pro is the AMD R9 M280X, which is worse than the GTX 860M in my £500 Clevo W230SS
You should try replacing thermalpaste on a laptop and see if there is a difference because the stock thermalpaste (and the sheer volume of it) looks horrible on most laptops.
+Tommi_6o I didn't get too much of a thermal change on my Lenovo Y580 when idling, but load temps improved a good bit (around 7-10C--the original paste was dried up and was never that great to begin with). I used Corning TC5121 that I got with my BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 and it works pretty well, but the tube doesn't come with much.
+Tommi_6o i did this on an old asus gaming laptop (and cleaned out dust etc) got a performance boost and about 4 degrees drop in temperature. (it was cheap hardware store cooling paste)
I don't know how but after 3 years of use my laptops thermal compound was dry af so I changed it I felt like I just bought a new pc (could be thanks to playing in bed for 3 years)
I needed to get a laptop fan when my live-streaming was over-heating my notebook. Got a new laptop recently and this time a couple of the fans are not running but three are still going.
Hi. Before I found your video I did a similar temperature measurement like you did because I was curious how effective the laptop coolers are. Funny I was testing the same Cooler Master X3, just with an older and weaker laptop - MSI GE60 0NC (with GeForce GT 650M). I ran Unigine Heaven benchmark loop for 2 hours for each setting to get a stable temperature (now I know that cca 30 minutes would be enough to reach that stable point), having the turbo fan in my laptop turned on max speed all the time to eliminate the variability in laptop's own cooling during the test. I got similar results to yours, with same insignificant differences in temperatures like you did. GPU temperatures on full load: On desk - 61°C; On passive pad (pad's fan turned off) - 60°C; On pad with pad's fan on - 58°C. As a bonus I tried to remove the bottom cover of my notebook and let the cooling pad's fan blow the air directly on the heatsink :-) On pad with pad's fan on and removed laptop's bottom cover - 50°C.Yeah, the notebooks have a very good cooling systems by themselves now and unless your air outlets are full of dust blocking the airflow, the laptop is able to cool down itself very well and you won't experience thermal throttling (automatic underclocking - slowing down - of your GPU or CPU to cool it down). So the pads won't increase performance of the laptops as they are running on highest speed with their own cooling already. Maybe overclockers may like some few more degrees that'll allow them push their clock even higher.
Yup my cpu limits at 95 degrees and gpu at 90 degrees. With a cheap 5 dollar cooling pad. Will it help if i get a better one... Ill just keep my desktop fan under the pc.
my laptop used to run into the hundreds and this model brought it down to the eighties (after modifying the bottom cover of the laptop to receive greater airflow into the components). my laptop no longer shuts off by itself, so I would say the cooler has made a difference
I have a different Apple laptop (a 2012 MacBook Air at present) that I want to water cool, but in a sane way. I need to figure out a way to build a water block for it to rest on top of. I have three reasons for wanting to do this. One: lifespan. My previous MacBook Air may have failed due to overheating. Two: comfort. My laptop gets too hot to be comfortable to use on my lap, and the fans are a bit loud at full speed. Three: coolness factor.
I have a lenovo y50 and using a laptop cooler (x2 fans) my computer runs 23% cooler. It also performs better, and doesnt sound like on its last breathe of life! Its very usefull if you have a monitor and keyboard set up for your laptop on your desk for working at home, Its petty nice. My laptop is actually cold, instead of steaming. There only $20 bucks for a decent one, and i say its def worth it!
Rirehu99 i love my laptop. This is my 2nd lenovo product and their keyboards and design are great. I have 4k model with the 860m which i got on ebay a year and a half ago for about 570 bucks. I recommend going with bang for buck. If your looking for a school computer, and something to play overwatch on, then its great. But i buy second hand. I would look at other laptops like asus or something, and see what is the best bang for the buck. But the lenovo y50 is a solid option.
hey,the x2 fans is the cooler master one? and what do u think of havit www.toptenreviews.com/computers/peripherals/best-laptop-coolers/havit-hv-review/ for the y50?
Laptop coolers are good for thermal throttling i guess. I dont use a cooler but if i game for like ~2 hours ish my laptop drops fps to 40 and locks it for like 20 minutes and that 40 fps also feels a bit jittery.
But what about acoustics? My laptop sounds like a friggin helicopter taking off, when the fans go all out. So would a bigger, fan outside help with the noise? Also, to really test performance they should try to overclock the gpu, and see if it would go any further with the notebook cooler...
I don't usually comment negatively in this kind of videos, but this review was pretty pointless, since you picked a gaming laptop and tested it... Idle... Gaming laptops tend to reach 80-85 degrees Celsius which is why I wanted to know if it's any good.
I've bought a laptop 5 months ago (i7 6700HQ, Nvidia gtx 950M, 8 RAM) and when plugged in and playing games on it (like Warface, Call of Duty 4, battlefield 3, gta 5, these kinds of games) I get CPU temp up to 90 degrees and when I put my hand on the side of the laptop it starts burning me after a few seconds and I can't keep it there anymore. On idle my CPU has around 50 degrees. You think I should clean it? I mean... how much dust could it gathered in 5 months? It's hard to take the back out, it is something in the middle that holds it (from inside) and I'm afraid that I'll break it if I force it to open. I have an Asus F550VX
I have a basic laptop. It crashed when I was rendering a video due to overheating, so I stuck a window fan under my laptop. Not only did it not overheat, my video rendered 2.5X faster.
Did so multiple times during this year. Even changed thermal paste. Energysaving mode helps, but is no good for gaming. Seems like the cooling just sucks, but as of now, I hevan´t experienced thermal throtteling. I guess this is fine then.*****
Damn, im running an i7 6700 in my gaming laptop and i still never get above 60 celcius even after playing gta V on max settings at between 1080 and 4k for more than 5-6 hours
I feel like this really depends on the placement of the vents in a laptop. Most gaming laptops have dedicated in/out air vents along the back (like the one in the video) and do a good job of cooling themselves, but others try to get away with as little cooling as possible for the sake of thinness. My laptop is an Acer Aspire, very thin, plastic, and it only has one cooling fan for the whole thing. Plus, the air intakes are all on the bottom, so sticking it on a cooling pad makes a massive difference - even compared to a flat table. Oh, and putting it on a bed makes it shut itself off from overheating D:
my laptop takes in air from the bottom and expels it out the side, but my "laptop cooler" pulls air from the top (where the laptop rests and is trying to pull air from) so its creating a pocket and ultimately rendering it useless. i tried taking it apart and flipping the fan around but the mounting holes only go one way, its awful
LOL. My acer laptop get like 105 C on both cpu and gpu when streaming movies on a tv XDDD and it's standing on a normaly wooden table.. I got a decent laptop cooler and it helps a bit but still around 85-90 C at streaming xd
+Rickzzen dude your laptop is gonna die soon if you do that any more. my laptop threshold is 92 C for both my GPU and CPU. if i try to play video on it without an external cooler, it shuts off by itself because it runs so hot. I then put the laptop on a big frozen gel pack, still ran at 72 C while watching Netflix.
My laptop has a problem with cooling because the space below the keyboard is so hot it feels like it can almost burn you. And I have a cooling fan underneath it. Help
after 8 years i turned my 2008 Alienware M15x into desktop. tuned sideways with industrial fan blowing high into vents providing high circulation. Cooling pads are shit and provide 0 artificial air flow opposed to a fan with exposed back end unline a pad with fans that have back ends restricting air current. Toss battery charger next to sideways laptop to decrease heat also and vuaaalaah! 10 fps top and gaming to 90fps. Usb and hdmi connected to 70" tv , keyboard n mouse. Please leave out basic comments about cleaning vents and thermal paste cus lets face it, this late in gaming and this should not be an ongoing issue of overheating. BUT IT IS!
All wrong, it just has adapted hardware drawing the maximum from it without reaching critical temps during standard use (gaming). My laptop even retains it's boostclock of the cpu (3.5GHz) during the whole day. The only thing I notice is a somewhat loud cooling (fans) when not wearing headphones which is not a problem at all since when I don't wear headphones it'll do something light and use the iGPU instead ;-)
I found that regreasing the CPU/GPU every now and then helps the cooling, sometimes I have had to fabricate a copper shunt because of the OEM lack of a good heat transfer.
i have a notepal xl which fan is 230mm and fan speed of a 1000, and have holes for vents in the back so have slightly more better air flow, it may not help to make it chilly but still it lowers the temperature sooner when the load is put off rather then using the laptop without it also every degree helps when using a laptop. but dont use it on bed, dont want to ruin the cooler fan... btw i use hp envy 15 i7,4700 gt740m 2gb 8gb ram
So I have a laptop that overheats up to the max temperature for the laptop to shut down (105°C) in approximately 30 minutes of heavy use. If I lift the laptop at an angle and put a regular small room fan nearby, it can go a full day without turning off and the temperature is stable at 80°C (90-95°C if the angle isn't properly set up). Thing is, keeping the laptop at an angle and having the room fan nearby is uncomfortable and it's too loud. Would a laptop cooling pad help reduce the temperature better than a room fan while also being significantly more silent?
loved the video, but would have been better for me if you had chosen a basic laptop or even just not one as nice as the MSI. I'm sure most users don't run to laptops as nice as that! And the performance on cooling would have been a lot more interesting/significant.
could you please redo this video without trying to "look/sound/be cool" ? Just give us the content ... so we don't have to look for some other channel that is more on the point without BS
if your laptop is running to hot then you need to clean the dust and shit out of it, when i first got my laptop temperatures where fine around 70 degrees while playing games then after a year they shot up to sometimes 100 and would make my laptop crash and drop to stupidly low fps so i unscrewed the back panel and there was a huge clump of dust right on my fan i cleaned it all out and temperatures are fine now no crashes either
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad and after some time it starts heating as hell. It burns my hands then I bought a fan for it. It works really well now. I don't have any frame drops anymore.
When I had my old laptop, I used the fan pad as a doc station, it had 4 powered USB's which were hooked up to a keyboard and mouse and printer, so when I wanted to game all I had to do is hook up 1 usb cable to the laptop and I had a real mouse and keyboard without taking up the usbs on the laptop and messing around with more wires then I needed, though the cooling I didn't really bother to keep and eye on it lol.
Will get one of those vacuum laptop coolers, the one where you stick it to the exhaust vent. I hear those are more effective than cooling pads. Already own a cooling pad myself, temps are no good in GTAV
I'm using the razor blade 14 2017, and while it is a great gaming laptop the biggest issue I'm encountering is that it overheats (and sometimes crashes) when plugged in to charge while gaming. I was considering buying a cooling pad, but then I found a USB powered fan laying around and it seemed to do the job, con of that approach is that the USB fan is load af, but if you're using a headset it's not that noticeable
you should have done this test with a laptop that overheats
test is trash. i ran dell test. said i need new hard drive. i turned sideways and blasted with $5 fan and highly decreased temps and retested with ZERO issues and ultra setting capabilities. They build laptops like most appliances full of throw away trash parts bought at lowest bid for biggest profit.
+Exlecticution my dell Inspiron 15R (5537) bought in April of 2014 died after two years. Yes, two years... I was using a laptop cooler when gaming but the laptop died, fuck it.
+BaboonArt probably the laptop cooler was to weak to that it didnt help at all with the cooling
+Android Gaming nooo the i7 was Ultra low voltage, he was never over 80ºand 85º in summer
No idea about the gpu, an amd lol
But after more than a year and a half the system was unstable, loosing wifi, no Bluetooth, and touchpad no responsive sometimes.
I should have called dell bcse in France we have a 2 years warranty, but after the dell warranty of one year, we have to prove we re not the cause of the issue (pretty hard to prove lol)
I will never buy a laptop over 500€ again
+BaboonArt i also have a dell laptop that has an intel core i7 5500u i think and a geforce gtx 840m i used to play csgo smoothly but after a couple of months it started throttling i guess because the game was getting a bit sluggish so iam planning to buy a laptop cooler like the havit cooler
I use my AMD laptop to heat my house.
Cairo Murphy rly my AMD laptop can't heat a house
@@Kuri0 ur AMD is trash
@@felixmejia4061 k
@@Kuri0 100/10 response
I use my AMD laptop as a barbecue grill
Amd laptop+bed = Satan's sauna
Fermi fires ring a bell?
+Steve Ozone thats how I keep warm in winter, I just let my amd computers heat the house.
+Steve Ozone I am experiencing this right now.
+Steve Ozone mine's got an intel processor but has a radeon graphics card and yes, this shit heats as hell
as always, linus testing on hardware very few people has
why desn't he test any "average" laptop with a discrete gpu?
that shit has more vents than I have money whereas my laptop has ony one air in and one air out with that vent like most laptops
+Steve Ozone I have a laptop with an AMD FX7600P APU XD
It runs 75-81 on idle on the CPU... xD It depends on what windows is doing.. :P
My laptop used to get up to 100 Celsius and crash while playing Skyrim. It was so hot it would burn my hands and fingers, and the fans blew out air so hot that they once melted a stick of deodorant I accidentally left by my laptop. One day I just got sick of it and ordered a super nice cooling pad and one of those vacuum fans that attaches to the exhaust vents. Now my CPU doesn't get above 65 and my gpu never above 75. The fans helped a ton, so I can personally say they work. Skyrim didn't crash after that either.
I've done that they both do about the same work. I have a really good cooling pad, so it pushes a ton of air through the laptop, then the vent pulls it out on the other end. Maybe its just intake vent placement for yours. My fan blows directly into it. Plus my GPU is on the otherside where I dont have another vent vacuum fan.
Clean out ur laptop xD
Jesus my laptop is clean as it gets. I dismantle it for cleaning every couple weeks it makes no difference. My laptop just has a very poor cooling setup like most laptops.
+Randy Perkes Ok then. But damn bro
Jesus I know Jesus, I'm just praying to finish up the PC I'm building. It'd be great if you told god to send some blessings my way.
I had an AMD laptop once.. I think it made me sterile.
+Verendus Vir hahahahaha
Harly LMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣 🐋💀
harlyx64 😂🤣😂🤣😂
My old Celeron did the same
I don't know whats worse, overheating laptops, or people putting high performance laptops on their lap, instead of on a table like you should be.
I use legos & a usb fan
Nice bro
Only one fan?
+Bockab the Hobo solution is real!
don't see why you wouldent
+Bockab I use ice pack under the air intake
Man old Linus is annoying lol. I like 2019 Linus much better.
Im pretty sure has was trying to impersonate someone when he talked like a "cooler"
it is pretty horrible yeh
plugged inthoo tha whhhaaaaalllll
on.the.MAHCHIIHNNEE
Whats so different? Linus is Linus
Questions: are laptop cooling pads effective ?
Options : yes or no .
Linus : talks for one decade
I don't know what he is trying to say 😢
same. Its just a yes or no question. I guess
Half of the video is jokes and puns. And they probably should have used a laptop that actually needs the cooling pad for the testing.
Yes it is effective in 4-5 degrees difference... But not in performance. :)
@@KinBDutMean degree in Fahrenheit or Celsius?
>@*@>😅
@@docklikeable9264 almost always in Celsius when talking about computer thermals
Cooling pads were never meant to increase performance (how could they? Its not an extra RAM, CPU or anything like that), but decrease heat stress on the laptop, so why test performane when it wont affect it (short term at least)? The only relevant thing to test if it increases cooling, and it did, so it works.
I think they were testing thermo throttling so without the cooler they expected it to cut back and thus lose performance compared to the cooler pad which would stop throttling and result in higher performance
the lower the the temp the better performance u get
Thermal throttling
Calle Nilsson but when the PC is cooler doesnt it run faster, beacuse when my PC overheats i get FPS drops all the time. And when i use a normal desk fan i dont get any FPS drops
Beginning of video = cringe
just watched the rest
Whole video = cringe
Your comment is cringier
But probably my comment is cringier than your comment
Phoenixian Dave My reply is cringiest
And so mine is the cringiest
Stfu. Mine is the cringiest
Your comment was typed all at once, since it wasn't edited. Nice try buddy.
NOTE: where it says edited on my comment
Why your quality looks that bad even on 1080p? :/
+Erik Murin Because they take a wide shot for the whole video and then zoom when they want to do reactions, or focus or something in the frame. Nobody behind the camera I guess. When you have a frame that's 1080p and zoom in on a small portion of it it'll be lower resolution.
+Tb0n3 Looks much worse to me even on the wide shot compared to their regular videos.
+Tb0n3 Well it looks bad even without zooming
+Erik Murin Looks really good in 4k on my ps4.
+Lars Isaksen looks great at 8k on my NES
Linus is my cousin.
+Ben Sebastian same
+Ben Sebastian Lucy is your cousin as well then!.
+Ben Sebastian ok
+Ben Sebastian also mine
Linus is my son
"I don't know, I'm just a description writer. Literally my whole job here. Sigh."
Lol.
+The Double07Phase Poor description writer guy :(
XiadaisGaming Yeah I wonder how much that job pays :P I feel bad for him hehe
+The Double07Phase I wonder how many of us actually look at the description of the video we just watched. I do, but I don't have any idea as to why...
Robert Alford Green Yeah just think about it, he probably works so hard on the descriptions but nobody even reads them
I have a notebook cooler and it works great! My laptop used to be around 80 degrees Celsius but now it's around 60-70 degrees Celsius and my games are now getting a few extra fps. So it's worth it.
I know the temps before are still good, but because I overclock my laptop I want to decrease the temperature as much as possible.
what cooler did you use
What cooler did u do
I thought the point of a laptop cooler was to prolong the life of the laptop not to boost performance. As you said, "...heat is one of the biggest factors when it comes to premature hardware death." Isn't that reason enough to recommend using a laptop cooler?
Thermal throttling..... if it gets too hot, it will slow itself down.
@Hatwox yes but the fact that it gets to those high temps and then only throttles is what hurts the hardware anyway,keeping it cool at ALL times will prolong it so much more
"It's a soft, fluffy surface." And the bed's pretty comfortable, too. HEY-O!
HEY-OOOO
+CocoaNutCakery Damn, Beat me to it! XD
Linu - errr, I mean . . . 2EXTREME AWAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!
its hes own question and this is a show...kind of, its not porn thats for shure!
2EXTREME2008 lkollol
2EXTREME2008 lol
That intro legitimately left me scratching my head
During gaming, my Asus ROG laptop with an Intel i7-4720HQ and a GTX 960M, my laptop regularly jumps to 75C-78C for the CPU and 79C for the GPU.
:|
+swat67ify suck a kick
+swat67ify cool k bye
+swat67ify Razer Blade 2015 here. 83C on GPU and 95C on CPU XD
***** Oooooh xD Those are a couple nasty temps.
+swat67ify My old e-Machines laptop runs 73℃ while wathing this video :,D
Too much self-aware...
Oh hi protomario
Dude you are famous now
For some unknown reason, this video showed on my feed today on November 2019. I had great time watching your videos back in the days. Miss you my old friend, NCIX.
Old video, but I'd like to say that the best cooler I've *ever* used was a Notepal U3 Plus cooler. You could place the fans where you needed them which meant a truly customizable laptop cooler. I've had a couple others with a single fan in the middle and channels that supposedly would let hot / cool air flow that plain out sucked.
But my laptop has one vent on the bottom and one hidden behind the hinge (Asus FlipBook TP550L) with an i5-5200U and 4 Gigs of ram) Can you try less powerful laptops on a maybe part 2? With more realistic choices that are less expensive?
ok linus, what about a laptop like a he pavilion that isn't as optimized as that MSI laptop. my one is a bit older and doesn't have as many vents as antony's
For anyone watching this in 2019 and on. If you can take the lid off the bottom of your laptop and let the fans blow directly on the cpu and gpu you can see double the reduction in cooling temps and it will make a difference in performance im you are already boardering the thermal throttle points
5:04 the answer you were looking for. No 5 minutes video required.
So I do my own test and this is the result.
What I use = Cooler Master Notepal CMC3 and CINEBENCH R15
The result
Using Cooling Pad
CINEBENCH Score
CPU = 318 cb
OpenGL = 44.97 fps
Temperature
CPU = MAX 77C
CPU1 = MAX 77C
CPU2 = MAX 77C
CPU3 = MAX 64C
CPU4 = MAX 64C
GPU = MAX 54C
NOT using Cooling Pad
CINEBENCH Score
CPU = 318 cb
OpenGL = 44.89 fps
Temperature
CPU = MAX 80C
CPU1 = MAX 80C
CPU2 = MAX 80C
CPU3 = MAX 69C
CPU4 = MAX 69C
GPU = MAX 60C
I hope this helps.
I have similar results with my pad. Of course it doesn't enhanced performance but if I can relieve heat stress by even a degree I call it a win.
I recently bought the same CMC3 cooling pad just to relief the heat stress of my Ryzen 5-based mainstream laptop.
What a sloppy and messed up review Linus , you usually do a better job .... The main goal of those laptop coolers is not to bring performance into the table at all man .. BUT temps reduction and the associated benefits it will provide to the cramped hardware inside that portable system , the real goal of any laptop cooler review is to determine if that specific product really works, when you game on with a USD$ 2500+ gaming laptop for 8 hours and you want at least -10C outta the GPU / CPU by using one of these on a flat clean surface, sadly that MSI unit you decided to use (thanks god it wasn't the fancy razer) is not the best sample unit to test out this , you should have used a bigger unit such as the MSI GT70-GT72 , alienware M17/M18 , asus ROG 17 , we are talking about high end REAL frying pans !
I had an AMD based laptop that got to about 120-130 C whilst gaming.
Cooling pad took it down to 85, so yes, they work.
Which cooling pad did you get?
Just a basic single fan, $10 cooling pad from walmart.
Probably Not A Chicken Aw...have a generic cooling fan too. Too bad it's not enough to get my temps down from 99 degrees C when playing GTAV
how do you measure the temperature?
thehomiebearfifa download an application to monitor your temperature. Most chips shouldn't go over 100c.
This is a topic that needs to be revisited and done right.
I use a Cooler Master Notepal U3 Plus. It has a grilled surface and three 80mm adjustable fans with adjustable speed. But it's not very good to have the fans facing to the air intakes because it pushes a lot of dust into the laptop and it won't take long for the dust inside to prevent hot air to be blowned through the vents and therefore it will raise the CPU and GPU temperatures. It's best to use the pad without fans to just have more space between the laptop and the flat surface so the laptop fans have more airflow to cool the components easier.
Linus should do the same but with the New Macbook and see if a notebook cooler help that shit get better performance similar to his watercooling video.
+Crimson Koba I think that's the sort of laptop that most coolers are meant for now; small form factor, shit cooling, but high performance. Obviously that last one doesn't apply to the macbook, but still.
+DUCKDUDE4100 that did make me chuckle. I recently checked the "build your macbook" thing on their website and the best GPU you can get in a £2k (in price conversion it's like $3k, but Apple seems to just replace the $ with £ when selling here in the UK, so it would be cheaper across the pond) Macbook Pro is the AMD R9 M280X, which is worse than the GTX 860M in my £500 Clevo W230SS
I tried using a cooler on my Macbook Pro, and it won't work unless you take off the cover underneath it.
Sam Morrissey Apple never provides good GPU options and everything costs more here, despite the strength of the £.
You folks do reallize that a macbook hasno underside intakes .. So how the fuck it is supposed to help much?
You should try replacing thermalpaste on a laptop and see if there is a difference because the stock thermalpaste (and the sheer volume of it) looks horrible on most laptops.
+Tommi_6o I didn't get too much of a thermal change on my Lenovo Y580 when idling, but load temps improved a good bit (around 7-10C--the original paste was dried up and was never that great to begin with). I used Corning TC5121 that I got with my BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 and it works pretty well, but the tube doesn't come with much.
+Tommi_6o i did this on an old asus gaming laptop (and cleaned out dust etc) got a performance boost and about 4 degrees drop in temperature. (it was cheap hardware store cooling paste)
i also have a cooler and it does nothing,
literally nothing
it didnt even decrease temps by 1°C
worst 20€ spent
I don't know how but after 3 years of use my laptops thermal compound was dry af so I changed it I felt like I just bought a new pc (could be thanks to playing in bed for 3 years)
I needed to get a laptop fan when my live-streaming was over-heating my notebook. Got a new laptop recently and this time a couple of the fans are not running but three are still going.
Oh god, a younger linus....
Lol
Hi. Before I found your video I did a similar temperature measurement like you did because I was curious how effective the laptop coolers are. Funny I was testing the same Cooler Master X3, just with an older and weaker laptop - MSI GE60 0NC (with GeForce GT 650M). I ran Unigine Heaven benchmark loop for 2 hours for each setting to get a stable temperature (now I know that cca 30 minutes would be enough to reach that stable point), having the turbo fan in my laptop turned on max speed all the time to eliminate the variability in laptop's own cooling during the test. I got similar results to yours, with same insignificant differences in temperatures like you did.
GPU temperatures on full load:
On desk - 61°C;
On passive pad (pad's fan turned off) - 60°C;
On pad with pad's fan on - 58°C.
As a bonus I tried to remove the bottom cover of my notebook and let the cooling pad's fan blow the air directly on the heatsink :-)
On pad with pad's fan on and removed laptop's bottom cover - 50°C.Yeah, the notebooks have a very good cooling systems by themselves now and unless your air outlets are full of dust blocking the airflow, the laptop is able to cool down itself very well and you won't experience thermal throttling (automatic underclocking - slowing down - of your GPU or CPU to cool it down). So the pads won't increase performance of the laptops as they are running on highest speed with their own cooling already. Maybe overclockers may like some few more degrees that'll allow them push their clock even higher.
Coolers also let you set your laptop on your lap for long periods without burning your skin off lol
Yeah and it gives a nice flat surface in case if the laptop is on a carpet or bed.
Yup my cpu limits at 95 degrees and gpu at 90 degrees. With a cheap 5 dollar cooling pad. Will it help if i get a better one... Ill just keep my desktop fan under the pc.
my laptop used to run into the hundreds and this model brought it down to the eighties (after modifying the bottom cover of the laptop to receive greater airflow into the components). my laptop no longer shuts off by itself, so I would say the cooler has made a difference
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Joseph Petro whats tldr?
Too long, didn't read
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TLDW*
2020: hey
TH-cam: hey! check this 2017's super interesting video...
Except it's not. It's a cringefest and misleading bullshit at best.
Use it in a cold room. Maybe 16-18'C.
I can’t believe I’m just now subscribing to this channel where have I been??
No use in subbing now since NCIX no longer exists and will never upload again
I have a different Apple laptop (a 2012 MacBook Air at present) that I want to water cool, but in a sane way. I need to figure out a way to build a water block for it to rest on top of. I have three reasons for wanting to do this. One: lifespan. My previous MacBook Air may have failed due to overheating. Two: comfort. My laptop gets too hot to be comfortable to use on my lap, and the fans are a bit loud at full speed. Three: coolness factor.
I live in usuahia I let the window open when gaming and the laptop close to it, the CPU never goes upper than 37º Degrees (I use gloves lol)
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"what do all these numbers mean"
literally me questioning that everyday
I have a lenovo y50 and using a laptop cooler (x2 fans) my computer runs 23% cooler. It also performs better, and doesnt sound like on its last breathe of life! Its very usefull if you have a monitor and keyboard set up for your laptop on your desk for working at home, Its petty nice. My laptop is actually cold, instead of steaming. There only $20 bucks for a decent one, and i say its def worth it!
Thank you dude, i am planning to buy lenovo y50 too
Rirehu99 i love my laptop. This is my 2nd lenovo product and their keyboards and design are great. I have 4k model with the 860m which i got on ebay a year and a half ago for about 570 bucks. I recommend going with bang for buck. If your looking for a school computer, and something to play overwatch on, then its great. But i buy second hand. I would look at other laptops like asus or something, and see what is the best bang for the buck. But the lenovo y50 is a solid option.
+John Traner well i would rather buy the 1080p model with 860m because 960 m isnt available in my country...
hey,the x2 fans is the cooler master one?
and what do u think of havit www.toptenreviews.com/computers/peripherals/best-laptop-coolers/havit-hv-review/ for the y50?
Laptop coolers are good for thermal throttling i guess. I dont use a cooler but if i game for like ~2 hours ish my laptop drops fps to 40 and locks it for like 20 minutes and that 40 fps also feels a bit jittery.
But what about acoustics? My laptop sounds like a friggin helicopter taking off, when the fans go all out. So would a bigger, fan outside help with the noise? Also, to really test performance they should try to overclock the gpu, and see if it would go any further with the notebook cooler...
I don't usually comment negatively in this kind of videos, but this review was pretty pointless, since you picked a gaming laptop and tested it... Idle...
Gaming laptops tend to reach 80-85 degrees Celsius which is why I wanted to know if it's any good.
Overvolted gaming laptops, that is. Under-fucking-volt your cpu. Instantly 20 degrees lower.
Jeff Franklin The thing I wonder is how his comment managed to get 29 likes...
I've bought a laptop 5 months ago (i7 6700HQ, Nvidia gtx 950M, 8 RAM) and when plugged in and playing games on it (like Warface, Call of Duty 4, battlefield 3, gta 5, these kinds of games) I get CPU temp up to 90 degrees and when I put my hand on the side of the laptop it starts burning me after a few seconds and I can't keep it there anymore. On idle my CPU has around 50 degrees. You think I should clean it? I mean... how much dust could it gathered in 5 months? It's hard to take the back out, it is something in the middle that holds it (from inside) and I'm afraid that I'll break it if I force it to open. I have an Asus F550VX
yes, clean it if there is no warranty void
if you havent warranty anymore, you can also change the thermal paste !
Maybe try using a laptop with not as good stock cooling. I'd love to see this video revised sometime.
I have a basic laptop. It crashed when I was rendering a video due to overheating, so I stuck a window fan under my laptop. Not only did it not overheat, my video rendered 2.5X faster.
nobody told that it would increase performance, they are called cooling pads and not performance pads for some reason
Would it help me with my GE70 2PE? I am regularly hitting the high 80-90s on CPU and 70-85°C on GPU
Did so multiple times during this year. Even changed thermal paste. Energysaving mode helps, but is no good for gaming. Seems like the cooling just sucks, but as of now, I hevan´t experienced thermal throtteling. I guess this is fine then.*****
My Notebook and Board is at 95 °C while gaming
needs cleaning
It is brand new
Dennis3Run then you should send it back.
+Hurriname holy shit
Damn, im running an i7 6700 in my gaming laptop and i still never get above 60 celcius even after playing gta V on max settings at between 1080 and 4k for more than 5-6 hours
Safe to clean laptops with compressed air?
it's fine as long as it's turned off
try to keep the fan stoped from spinning
I did and my laptop still working fine
I feel like this really depends on the placement of the vents in a laptop. Most gaming laptops have dedicated in/out air vents along the back (like the one in the video) and do a good job of cooling themselves, but others try to get away with as little cooling as possible for the sake of thinness. My laptop is an Acer Aspire, very thin, plastic, and it only has one cooling fan for the whole thing. Plus, the air intakes are all on the bottom, so sticking it on a cooling pad makes a massive difference - even compared to a flat table. Oh, and putting it on a bed makes it shut itself off from overheating D:
my laptop takes in air from the bottom and expels it out the side, but my "laptop cooler" pulls air from the top (where the laptop rests and is trying to pull air from) so its creating a pocket and ultimately rendering it useless. i tried taking it apart and flipping the fan around but the mounting holes only go one way, its awful
LOL. My acer laptop get like 105 C on both cpu and gpu when streaming movies on a tv XDDD and it's standing on a normaly wooden table.. I got a decent laptop cooler and it helps a bit but still around 85-90 C at streaming xd
sounds like you need to open it up and clean out the dust and replace the thermal grease.
My sisters laptop melted the glass on my desk
+Kappa more then 1700 c yeah logic xD
+Owen de Cuba (owyebo) well maybe it's plastic then, but it looks like glass
+Rickzzen dude your laptop is gonna die soon if you do that any more. my laptop threshold is 92 C for both my GPU and CPU. if i try to play video on it without an external cooler, it shuts off by itself because it runs so hot. I then put the laptop on a big frozen gel pack, still ran at 72 C while watching Netflix.
for those doesn't know already, NCIX went bankrupt in 2017
this channel is dead
Bro that kinda sad I just found them
@@layandreakoto1140 just look up Linus tech tips, same chad ,same advice.
@@plumtucker9514 I already watch linus
is he that guy from linustechtips?
I know that laptop cooler doesn't make a significant impact on temps but i'd like to know if they will decrease the sound of your fans.
is it worth buying a Laptop Cooler/Cooling Pad if my laptop doesn't have any cooling vents at the bottom
Haven´t a clue what this guy is on about! ...he on drugs?
Nah
I wonder what Linus had smoked before making this video...
I hate how whenever Linus has to talk on this channel he needs to act overly stupid..
Still using the Targus chill mat xD
Just bought it lol is it good for cooling whike gaming ? LOL
My targus only have one fan tho
My laptop has a problem with cooling because the space below the keyboard is so hot it feels like it can almost burn you. And I have a cooling fan underneath it. Help
after 8 years i turned my 2008 Alienware M15x into desktop. tuned sideways with industrial fan blowing high into vents providing high circulation. Cooling pads are shit and provide 0 artificial air flow opposed to a fan with exposed back end unline a pad with fans that have back ends restricting air current. Toss battery charger next to sideways laptop to decrease heat also and vuaaalaah! 10 fps top and gaming to 90fps. Usb and hdmi connected to 70" tv , keyboard n mouse. Please leave out basic comments about cleaning vents and thermal paste cus lets face it, this late in gaming and this should not be an ongoing issue of overheating. BUT IT IS!
Exlecticution ummm how did you convert it to a desktop? Adding displays isn’t doing that at all.
Everyone saying their AMD laptops overheat, have you ever used a metabox. My God.
Zagros A amd laptops suck
My current AMD laptop peaks at 75 °C when gaming and stays at 29-35 °C when idle.
I think the old AMD laptops sucked but I recently got a Ryzen-based laptop and it's kinda comparable to Intel Core-based laptops.
Basically, a modern gaming laptop is gonna have to be overpowered, so that it generates less heat.
Jeff Franklin i guess he meant underpowered
All wrong, it just has adapted hardware drawing the maximum from it without reaching critical temps during standard use (gaming). My laptop even retains it's boostclock of the cpu (3.5GHz) during the whole day. The only thing I notice is a somewhat loud cooling (fans) when not wearing headphones which is not a problem at all since when I don't wear headphones it'll do something light and use the iGPU instead ;-)
I found that regreasing the CPU/GPU every now and then helps the cooling, sometimes I have had to fabricate a copper shunt because of the OEM lack of a good heat transfer.
i have a notepal xl which fan is 230mm and fan speed of a 1000, and have holes for vents in the back so have slightly more better air flow, it may not help to make it chilly but still it lowers the temperature sooner when the load is put off rather then using the laptop without it also every degree helps when using a laptop. but dont use it on bed, dont want to ruin the cooler fan...
btw i use hp envy 15 i7,4700 gt740m 2gb 8gb ram
The heck? XD This cooler has been around for a long time!
My room temperature is 34°C >:O
sometimes i warm my Hands on my Laptop fans, cuz itz so hot outside xD
warm?
Warm?
So I have a laptop that overheats up to the max temperature for the laptop to shut down (105°C) in approximately 30 minutes of heavy use. If I lift the laptop at an angle and put a regular small room fan nearby, it can go a full day without turning off and the temperature is stable at 80°C (90-95°C if the angle isn't properly set up).
Thing is, keeping the laptop at an angle and having the room fan nearby is uncomfortable and it's too loud. Would a laptop cooling pad help reduce the temperature better than a room fan while also being significantly more silent?
Yes
loved the video, but would have been better for me if you had chosen a basic laptop or even just not one as nice as the MSI. I'm sure most users don't run to laptops as nice as that! And the performance on cooling would have been a lot more interesting/significant.
could you please redo this video without trying to "look/sound/be cool" ? Just give us the content ... so we don't have to look for some other channel that is more on the point without BS
You have some really great videos but oh my god this one was really irritating to watch... please no more ridiculous voices.
Why do I feel like this geezer's reading from a script?
Maybe he does...?
He even admits it in the video so, not an astounding deduction here.
if your laptop is running to hot then you need to clean the dust and shit out of it, when i first got my laptop temperatures where fine around 70 degrees while playing games then after a year they shot up to sometimes 100 and would make my laptop crash and drop to stupidly low fps so i unscrewed the back panel and there was a huge clump of dust right on my fan i cleaned it all out and temperatures are fine now no crashes either
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad and after some time it starts heating as hell. It burns my hands then I bought a fan for it. It works really well now. I don't have any frame drops anymore.
Just get to the point already....
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Ahhh the inhilation zoom
I just sit the computer on a bag of ice :|
for real?
dude the moisture from the ice might break pc components
This is what my friend did for a long time.
DNOEL BPITR the ice/hot bags where you can make them cold or hot
The difference is that most notebook users don't have a gaming one. Mine (hp) gets about 70°C and is too hot to hold it when I don't have a table near
I had one 7 years old laptop ...it wouldn't even turn on without a laptop cooler (vacuum cooler)
Yay
dell laptop + bed = burn't home
Blitz I can attest to this! But my baby is still going strong. Just bought a cooling pad.
Mybe but its been 10 years and that hp laptop runs good as new even though temps go high af
These cringe jokes make me feel like I'm at church youth group.
i feel you
linus tech tips prehistoric
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When I had my old laptop, I used the fan pad as a doc station, it had 4 powered USB's which were hooked up to a keyboard and mouse and printer, so when I wanted to game all I had to do is hook up 1 usb cable to the laptop and I had a real mouse and keyboard without taking up the usbs on the laptop and messing around with more wires then I needed, though the cooling I didn't really bother to keep and eye on it lol.
What about the temperatures of hard drives? Did they decrease for 5°C as well?
I couldnt listen to this guy for more than 40 seconds
My gtx 950m goes to 95 lol
Have a 950m myself but 87 is the highest it gets in GTA V. My problem is my i7-4720HQ....it gets to 97 in GTAV! Even went as high as 99 one time.
lol
my cpu goes 80-95
Will get one of those vacuum laptop coolers, the one where you stick it to the exhaust vent. I hear those are more effective than cooling pads. Already own a cooling pad myself, temps are no good in GTAV
the cooler makes no different, lol XD
2019: now its intel turn to heat all your house thing!
I'm using the razor blade 14 2017, and while it is a great gaming laptop the biggest issue I'm encountering is that it overheats (and sometimes crashes) when plugged in to charge while gaming. I was considering buying a cooling pad, but then I found a USB powered fan laying around and it seemed to do the job, con of that approach is that the USB fan is load af, but if you're using a headset it's not that noticeable
Suggestions for the best laptop cooler for a laptop with exhaust vents on the rear? Which one will be the bang for the buck?