How to chose the best cooling pad for your laptop
Inventho brought you how to prevent your laptop’s overheating in an earlier article. It’s important to increase your laptop’s life span while protecting its internal components from overheating. Cooling pads are the best option to lessen the temperature of your laptop to avoid overheating. In this article, we are going to give some tips to buy the best cooling pad for your laptop. Mainly, there are 2 types of cooling pads, which are that having fans (active) and not (passive). We recommend you to buy active cooling pads having fans because it’s more effective than passive cooling pads. So, let’s find out how to choose the best cooling pad for your laptop.
1. Cooling fan and its power
Airflow raised by cooling pad measured by “Cubic feet per minute”, or simply “CFM”. When the fans have more power and RPM, then it will cool the laptop more efficiently. So, it’s important to consider the CFM of the cooling pad when it buys. Usually, it varies from 20 CFM to more than 70 CFM.
When you could not able to observe the CFM value, you must look for the RPM value of the fan. We are in 2021. So, it’s nice to have a cooling pad with a minimum of 1000 RPM. If you are a hardcore gamer, we suggest you buy a cooling pad with 2000 RPM.
Some have one single large fan while others have multiple smaller fans. The positioning of those fans important. If fans are placed below areas where the laptop gets heated most, then the cooling process will be done more effectively. Sometimes, fans could be adjustable according to the need of the laptop. We highly recommend those cooling pads when considering pads with multiple smaller fans.
2. Adaptability and Portability
It should be ergonomic and it would be an extra benefit to have several positions and angles to use. Furthermore, when you work in a bed or with your lap, it’s worth having a cooling pad with multiple vents and adjustable legs. Because then your laptop and cooling pad will not be obscured by clothes or sheets. And it also has to be lightweight and portable as it’s used with laptops.
3. Noise of cooling pad
Noisy cooling pads will destroy your user experience when hearing music, watching movies, or playing games. So, this is worth considering. You would be able to find cooling pads working quietly which only produce average noise of 24 dBA or even lesser.
4. Extensibility
Attaching a cooling pad will shorten one USB port in the laptop. Since laptops have limited USB ports it severely affects the extensibility of your laptop. But if you use a cooling pad having a cable with a dual-sided USB pin or having multiple USB ports that can connect other USB devices directly into the cooling pad, it will no longer bother you. If you looking for cooling pads that have extensibility, you must consider this.
5. Size and Quality
It’s worthy to check whether the size of the cooling pad fits or either larger than the laptop size. And the length of USB cable which connects it to the laptop is overlooked by most of the customers. But it’s vital to have a USB cable with enough length in a cooling pad. It shouldn’t too long or too short.
When we look into the quality, cooling pads made with heat resistant materials like Aluminum are effective more than created by plastic or other non-metal material. And those cooling pads are durable also.
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