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Most people who own laptops and portable devices understand the importance of keeping our devices cool. Portable devices have come a long way throughout the years and can now almost replace some of our more powerful desktop PCs. This increase in power and efficiency comes with a price - additional heat. Although most, if not all come with already adequate cooling, it is not always enough, especially when running high intensity or resource heavy programs and applications.
I recently purchased a new laptop - slimmer and more powerful, and I wanted to ensure that it had enough cooling to keep it running at peak performance without requiring the laptops internal fans to need to work very hard. My solution was to buy a cooling pad which allowed for several different settings and allowed me to monitor the ambient temperature of my portable.
Below is the unboxing video for my purchase
As you can see from the above video it's fairly light when it comes to packaging. It wasn't too complicated to unbox. I ordered this device from Amazon for $24.99 USD and it comes with a 3-year manufacturers warranty for any part defects/damages/labor.
The Thermaltake Massive TM Cooler has dual 120mm Fans and has an Adjustable Temperature Sensor built in allowing for manual/automatic adjustment of the speed of each of the fans. The specs for the device directly from the manufacturer are listed below:
- Compatibility: For 10”~ 17”Notebook
- Dimension: 390 x 277.5 x 49.3 mm
- Fan Dimension: 120 x 120 x 18 mm x2
- Color: Black
- Material: Aluminum + Plastic
- Rated Current: 0.46 A
- Rated Voltage: 5V
- Fan Speed: 1000 R.P.M ( Turbo 1300 R.P.M )
- Noise: 31 dBA
- Air Flow: 61.27 CFM
- Air Pressure: 1.59 mm-H2O
- Sensor: 0 ~99 F
The base plate of the cooling pad is aluminum allowing for easy heat dissipation and a constant cool surface. The temperature sensors allow for monitoring up to 4 different areas along the surface of the cooling pad.
The cooling pad supports laptops of various sizes ranging from 10-inch to 17-inches in size. When placed on the pad, the laptop is elevated off of the aluminum plate in order to allow for ventilation of cool and hot air to and from your laptop. There are 4 spring loaded adjustable pegs which help to evenly elevate the laptop off of the cooling pad.
The design of the cooling pad allows for maximum ventilation allowing you to elevate both the pad and your laptop at an angle which allows for better airflow and ergonomic support.
Because of the elevation (which is adjustable to varying degrees), you can allow for more or less cool air to be pulled in by the fans and directly delivered to the bottom of your laptop where it matters most. At the same time, the air is also evenly distributed to the aluminum plate allowing the heat to dissipate evenly out from under your laptop.
One unique feature of this cooling pad that sets it apart from others is the Easy and smart multi-function display panel which includes a lock button and various buttons for controlling the fans.
The display shows you the temperature in 4 zones along the lower surface of your laptop and can adjust the fan speeds automatically to ensure that the temperature remains constant. If you want the temperature to remain cooler than you also have the option to increase the speed of the fans manually. There is a turbo mode in order to increase the fan speed and amount of air being pushed dramatically - this, however, will increase the amount of noise generated by the fans.
Sound-wise, the pad runs silent during normal operation. It does run a bit louder in turbo mode, but nothing that will disrupt anything you are doing. Like most cooling pads, it feels very wobbly, but it is constructed very well. There are 2 USB ports on the back of the device - 1 being reserved for the power cord to connect the device to your portable. Since the PC is USB powered, once your laptop goes to sleep or shuts off, so will the cooling pad.
The Thermaltake Massive TM Cooler is not the best or most efficient pad there is, but for the price it isn't bad at all. It does its job adequately and provides you a pretty good idea of how your PC temps are real time and that is good enough for me. If, however, you are looking for the best cooler I have others in mind that I would rather recommend and you can check out my other reviews to see those.
I hope you enjoyed my review of The Thermaltake Massive TM Cooling Pad. If you have any questions, inputs, or feedback, please feel free to post a comment below. I would also appreciate your Upvote, Follow, and Resteem if you feel this post was informative and will help others.
Image(s) Source: Amazon.com
