IETS 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'd like to start with my model, an HP Omen DC-1054NR. I7-9750H, 1660 Ti (NOT the Max-Q version), 16GB Ram, swapped their nvme drive for an Inland 1TB nvme with faster read/write speeds. I also swapped the stock thermal paste with Therma Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal (not something I'd recommend for beginners). It's a little over a year old, I'd purchased it brand new. I ran it with no cooling pad for about a month, but the temps were starting to make me nervous (hitting 99 C on CPU and about 94 C on GPU). I added a Cooler Master NotePal X-lite II, and saw about a 3 degree drop. Still a little hot and the CPU decided to push back up to that temperature and I got better performance but still had terrible heat. So next I added the liquid metal which saw a few changes - it took longer to get up to high temps, and it also gave me a considerable boost in performance - but I still kept hitting high temperatures. I spent months tweaking settings, undervolting, making sure everything was perfect, reapplied thermal paste, literally everything I could think of, and couldn't get it to stay below 90 C while I was playing demanding games. I tried multiple other cooling pads to no avail, until finally, I see this model. At a high price point, I ordered it thinking it was going to be another flop, but lo and behold, it seems I've finally found a match. The rubber gasket combined with an actual blower with a little oomph behind it, combined with the flares to prevent the hot air exhaust going into the intake (which is filtered!) seems to have been the magic elixir that's allowed me to not only significantly increase my performance but also keep my temps in a healthy range. I don't really care about the lights, and it definitely produces some noise, nor is it really a pad for sitting in your lap - this is built to give you the equivalent of a set of case fans and get you closer to desktop performance. If you can afford it, buy a cheaper cooling pad for gaming on the go, but keep this monster for desktop use. I haven't been this satisfied with a hardware purchase since first moving over to NVME drives. I wear headphones and no one can hear the fan through the microphone so it doesn't bother me at all, but might if that's a major concern for you. Best cooling system you can buy for a gaming laptop though, and it's worth the rather ridiculous price point.

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 purchased this to pair with my new nitro5 17” gaming laptop. I have owned it for a month at the time I’m writing this. It really performs excellent when it comes to actually cooling. Without the pad the laptop easily runs 10 C* hotter even idle. It’s design is by far the best I have seen in the last decade of cooling pads. By having the rubber seal and the two fans pushing air more efficiently through I see my temperatures have less fluctuations and the internal fans for cpu and gpu work less. And as an added bonus the pad having dust filters is really nice it just makes overall care and maintenance much easier and I feel like I’m able to take better care of my laptop. The biggest down side is noise this thing is pretty loud and that’s to be expected considering the top speed is 4500 rpm. Depending on your room temperature I would say you can get away with speed 2 if noise is an issue. I play with and without earphones and it doesn’t bother me personally but I could see it might bother someone else in the room if you’re sharing space. Also it is a made in China product and already one of the fans is starting to ramp up in speed randomly at times, which I suppose concerns me a little but I feel like that’s why I bought it. I bought this pad so I could cool my laptop and ultimately increase the longevity of the components in the laptop. So if running the pad on high for long stretches of time while gaming is putting more strain on the cooling pad and not the laptop then I’d say that’s worth it. I’d rather spend money on replacing a fan in the pad if it burns out compared to trying to fix an internal fan in the laptop. With that said I hope it lasts. Regardless I’d still only look for and buy a cooling pad with this design. It is by far the superior way that I have seen of actually cooling down laptops. Of course this only works on laptops with vents under the laptop that pull air from the bottom and exhaust out the top and sides. So this doesn’t really work on MacBooks, however, you could not use the rubber ring which might be a good way of cooling that style of laptop. My laptop is definitely enjoying this cooling pad and has so far lived up to my standards only time will tell if it can last from my constant gaming sessions.

I’ve tested the IETS GT300 on two laptops now — my Alienware Area-51 and my Lenovo Legion 7i — and it surprised me with how well it actually works. I’ve used plenty of cooling pads over the years, and most of them barely make a difference. This one does. On both machines, I saw my CPU temps drop anywhere from 5–12°C and the GPU by about 5–10°C while gaming. That’s not marketing talk; those were the actual numbers I watched in Afterburner. Both laptops held higher clocks and stayed stable in long sessions of RDR2, Cyberpunk 2077, and FF7 Rebirth. It’s built solid, the angle adjustments are plentiful to find the exact angle of view you want, and the fan speed control actually matters. Yes, it gets loud on the highest setting, but medium (level 3) still gives great cooling without being obnoxious. I use it while sitting next to my wife in the living room while she watches trashy reality shows and it hasn’t been an issue at all re: noise level. It’s weight is reasonable and this impacts comfort, which is serviceable and does not cause any soreness or the “digging in” that some heavier cooling pads with sharper leg edges are known to do. If you have a high-end gaming laptop with bottom intake vents, this thing does its job and does it well. It’s the first cooling pad I’ve bought that legitimately lowered temps instead of just blowing air around. I would and will but it again.

TL;DR - This cooler performed better than the flat-fan style coolers for an MSI and ASUS laptop. I got this for my son for Christmas who has an ASUS TUF FX504. I myself received an AFMAT version of this same style and I own a MSI GV62 8RE. My son also received an AICHESON 5-fan cooling pad as well for christmas and I previously had a HAVIT 3-fan style cooling pad. I ran a few tests against these different cooling pads (basically comparing the AFMAT/IETS style to the HAVIT/AICHESON style). The MSI laptop compared the AFMAT to the HAVIT, while the ASUS compared the IETS to the AICHESON. The tests run were Unigine benchmarks using phoronix-test-suite: 1 - No cooling fan 2 - The HAVIT or AICHESON 3 - The AFMAT/IETS on setting 0* 4 - The AFMAT/IETS on setting 3 The AFMAT/IETS models have "3" modes on the front, 1, 2 and 3 but there is also a setting where 1-3 are *not* lit, I call this "0" as the fan still sounds like it's going but very very slowly, it's also the most silent operation where 3 gets really loud. Looking at the temperature profiles of the laptop after the above benchmarks this is the summary of what I found. The HAVIT, AICHESON, AFMAT and IETS produced almost identical profiles with the AFMAT/IETS on setting "0". This profile was very slightly lower than the laptop with no cooler, indicating all of them did work a little but only about 3-4 degrees. The Max temperatures for all tests produced the same results for each laptop (The ASUS maxed around 89 and the MSI around 97) but the Low's changed and the average temp throughout the benchmarks was lower. The AFMAT/IETS on setting 3, making it sound like a Jet is flying over my house (slight exaggeration... slight), produced significantly better lows and averages. One thing I noticed, interestingly, was the GPU benefited the most from the cooling. The GPU temperature for both laptops stayed ~10 degrees lower for the entire benchmark over all 3 other tests. Also, once the benchmarks were finished the idle temp returned to a much lower value on setting 3 than all other tests (again ~10 degrees). All this indicated to me this style of laptop cooler really does work if your laptop can produce a good seal on the bottom with intake fans and has a rear-heat exhaust like both the ASUS and the MSI. During gaming sessions, going to setting 3 can be drowned out by the game sounds or headphones and is not distracting, but for general operation I leave them at setting 1 which is still audible but not obnoxiously so. Still giving it 5 stars, it's a cooler and it cools, but the fan noise can't be overstated enough. With two laptops running on setting 3 during game night, my wife says the room sounds like a bunch of old Desktop computers or a server room, but even on Setting 0/1 this cooler performs the same as other pad-style coolers with only a marginal sound increase.

Using this on a Dell G5 15SE (5505) with a 4800H and RX5600M. This laptop uses AMD's Smartshift and has cooling/heating issues out of the box (110c operational temps) Fully tuned we can get it to around 90c. Enter this cooling pad...77c-83c operational temps all while keeping the keyboard warm (instead of burning) to the touch(Biggest part of the value!). This cooling pad is the real deal! Pricey? yes! But worth the investment Today. Product Feature review. Cons 1. No thermal sensor, There should be a fan 'auto' mode! 2. Turned on but "fan off" the fan is on 'very low' and barely audible. The fan should be off here. 3. RGB is a nice 'to have' if that is your thing, the RGB controller is as basic as it gets. 4 Lighting 'select' modes that are static (Purple, Green, Blue, Red). There is a 5th mode, but you have to unplug the cooling pad to get this to work, its not on the selector - this is color cycle. There is no speed control for cycle mode either, its very slow. 4. No USB Pass through. The unit has two USB ports but they are not setup for Data and cannot be shared with the laptops host port to plug in a USB hub and such. Pros 1. Fan control is amazing. Turn the fan off and you get 'ultra low', turn to '1' and its gentile and cools good for CPU duty. Gaming on mode 2 and 3 are loud (3 being super loud and expected). Mode 3 gave me a 15c+ drop in Temps, but its too loud and interferes with my headset since I run 'auto-talk' for things like Discord. 2. You can turn off the RGB. Push and hold the RGB button until the lighting turns off. Simple as that! Every time the cooler turns on we have to do this, so this is also a con as there is no 'memory' built in to the RGB controller here. BUT we can turn the lighting off if we want while still using the fan! 3. The Angle. The edge of this laptop is sharp and requires an angle to stop it from cutting into your wrists. The 'wedge' angle on this cooler is just 100% perfect for lap use. 4. The seal. This system is 100% legit and works really well. I cant wait to fully test this in summer. The seal is a good 98% on full contact, you can feel air escape the seal at mode 2 and mode 3, but not 'off' and mode 1. The pressure inside of the empty area under the laptop has a really high PSI and increased CFM because of this. No other cooler offers this yet and I cant wait to see what other options show up as time moves on. This system really works 5. Room. There is a TON OF ROOM inside of the cooler. We can remove and replace the RGB with 5v ARGB strips and use a USB powered ARGB USB 'software' controller if we want to get more control. We have room to install speakers (yes that's right) and make them usb powered as well. What we can do with this cooling pad in the modding arena gets very interesting when considering this. 6. Cleaning. Cleaning the filters, fans, and inside area from dust is going to be very simple. easier to get into then my other laptop coolers (some are metal mesh with folded tabs that break when straightened for maintenance).

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).

This device is quite cleverly designed, and I have no doubt that many have had success with it - BUT, I was very disappointed with the SOUND of this device. I do NOT mind a louder unit. I understand this thing has two blowers. However, it's not the volume/amplitude of the device, it's the HARMONICS - because there are two blowers, the careful engineering of the two discrete speeds is very important for system stability. IF the blowers were perfectly synched, I am 100% convinced this sound wouldn't be anywhere near as bad. However, it seems, at least from my closer inspection, that one blower is faster than the other, leading to two distinctive frequencies, that create a very dissonant sound. Some may say, the multi-speed aspect is to help cooling, and fair enough: that's actually a valid point. But if that's the case, IT HAS TO BE DONE CORRECTLY! I am not an engineer (I have an aviation and a media production background), but I am a musician who has worked in audio production professionally for over a decade. The PROPER way to implement a multi-speed cooling system is to ensure a harmonic resonance that does not create an irrational difference. This unresolving 'beat' frequency will basically put stress on the system, not to mention, it just won't work as well. In other words, it basically sounds like two instruments playing the same note, where one is slightly flat or sharp. The system sounds like it's going to rip itself apart - and mathematically, that's basically what is happeneing, since the two blowers are creating fundamnetals that are essentially conflicting with each other. Again, to engineering, if they want to do this multi-speed properly, they must tune the blowers to ratios that subtract to a resolving beat frequency. When I was a kid and watched airplanes land, I remember the Dash-8 turboprops had such a badass sound, a mean and lean 'growl' to them. But it sounded deep, and good. And the engines didn't shake and buzz themselves off of the airplane. I would later learn that what I was hearing was musical harmonic: perfect fifths. This is because the engine, not unlike a musical insturment, must be properly tuned; in quite a literal sense. Engineering: tune these blowers on this cooling pad to 3:2 speed ratio, and I promise you this device would be far less offensive sounding, AND it would also COOL BETTER! PHYSICS!!!! Anyway, this device is a good idea, but just terribly designed. I returned it. Went back to my cheap $24 pad and am enjoying the calming 'whir' rather than the dissonant BUZZZ! It's a simple fix. I'd even be willing to test out designs if they send me some. I'm good at this stuff.