RazerLaptop Cooling Pad: Adaptive Smart - Intelligent Fan Control - Airtight Pressure Chamber - Fits Most Laptops & Macbooks 14” to 18" - Preset & Custom Fan Curves - 3 Port USB Type A - Chroma RGB

This is a great cooling pad! I previously owned a cheaper pad that was decent but this pad by Razer is far better. The build quality is nice, the extra USB ports on the back are useful and work well, and the fan works great via Razer Synapse, you can even see your systems CPU and GPU temps in the Synapse app! The pad performs well, it’s powered by a wall plug so the fan is powerful and the chamber design does a good job sealing cold air inside. The auto fan is a nice feature with different presets like Quiet, Balanced, and Performance that you can manually change fan curves but I prefer to manually set the RPM of my fan to a fixed speed and for that it has 3 different preset custom fan speeds from Low, Medium, and High that you can also change! The front RBG light strip is also nice, its noticeable without being too much and is fully customizable via Chroma extension app included with Synapse which is neat. On average I was seeing about 10-20 degrees Celsius cooler temps while gaming compared to about 5 degrees Celsius I got with my previous pad, so it’s easily 2-3x better then my previous one. This cooling pad works great with my Razer 17 and overall I’m really satisfied with it and I recommend it to anyone looking for a quality cooling pad for their gaming laptop!

I got this Razer laptop cooling pad for my 18" Acer Predator Helios. I will say it isn't a perfect fit. However, it does work and keep my laptop cooler. Setup was quick and easy, and that included a firmware update. Just follow the on-screen instructions and reboot.Leds are only on the front. It would have been cool to see more Leds around the side, but that doesn't negativity affect anything. I did need to update my Synapse 3 to Synapse 4. I believe the main reason is they separated Chroma from Synapse.My auto fan works great, and the profiles for low/med/high are adjustable. I made two small tweaks to the low and medium profiles just to make it dead silent when no load is on gpu/cpu. You can control the fans and lights via the buttons on the side of the cooler, or within the software. The software also gives you a basic look or an advance look for fan profiles. It's pretty cool.I play DayZ and with my Nvidia monitor I went from roughly 80*C @ 100% load to about 68-72*C and around 60-80% load. Based on that pretty sure I was getting thermally throttled. FPS is better also.I use a Razer Tartarus V2 because the height of the laptop keyboard is higher and for me is less comfortable while gaming. The Tartarus pairs up nice.There is an intake fan dust cover, so hopefully that does a good job as my house with multiple kids and animals gets pretty dusty.Currently very happy. It works just as advertised. And I'm happy with it not fitting 100% so it may work better for you and get even better results with temperature. Again, I'm using an Acer laptop, not a Razer so it's my own fault but it does work with non-Razer laptops.The cooler does have its down AC power adaptor which powers the cooler. There are also 3 usb ports on the rear, and they're setup for my Tartarus V2, JBL Quantum One headset and my charging cable for my Balilisk V3 Pro mouse. The pass thru works great, and I have no performance or audio issues.

I dont game with my asus lap top rog styx 18 inch. So this may be a scuewed review. But I got it cause I am wanting my lap top to be cool. It works great and mine is an 18inch big boy. It has different size foam inputs for other sizes as well. On high it is loud but that does not concern me as I only use it on low speed and on low it is quiet. But if you care about your machine the noise will not matter. It lights up and can do all kinds of light tricks. Has an app that you can monitor your temps and has an auto off or a auto adjustment for temps. You can adjust the fan speed for the temps higher or lower. After you get it and play around with the settings you will understand. Not hard at all to use and figure out.

As a preface, I think positively of Razer and their products. I have a couple of keyboards (tron, halo infinite) and mice (tron, halo infinite, a couple basic PC and laptop wireless mice), along with their Razer Sila wireless router, and a 2021 Razer Blade 15. I bought Razer's laptop cooler for my Razer Blade 15 because it runs hot when gaming. As a whole, I feel kinda meh about the cooling pad.With respect to the cooling pad, the packaging is stellar, the cooling pad itself is well designed, it has quality cables (USB and power), the fan is very powerful, it's quite efficient at cooling my laptop, and I appreciate how it has 3 different inserts that support different laptop sizes and types.However, I have a few gripes. For $150, the product should be made of metal and not plastic. Coming from an old Thermaltake CLN0008, I felt Razer could've done a better job with the materials, especially when my Razer Blade is completely aluminum. My next issue is the fan is loud, seriously loud. If I leave the fan setting on "balanced," the middle of the road setting, it sounds like my car AC turned on high. Sure, it's blowing a lot of air, but it's loud enough that I'm scrambling to figure out how to turn the fan RPM down because I can't hear myself think over the fan noise. I use the Razer Synapse software which adds a level of "automated" fan control, but that's based upon the CPU temp and if you've ever watched your CPU temp, it fluctuates like crazy within a second. One second the CPU temperature is passed the cooling pad's temperature threshold and the fan is throttling up, the next second the CPU is below the temperature threshold and the fan is throttling down. It would be smart if Razer added some type of temperature smoothing/averaging to initiate a fan throttle up, rather than make it an knee-jerk response to one of the many random CPU temperature fluctuations. My last gripe is that the Chroma settings between the cooler and my laptop get out of sync from time to time. I've noticed this when my computer boots up and when it's coming out of sleep mode. At some point it fixes itself (I think).For the cooling pad to have gotten 4 stars, the fan would need to be quieter and the fan's temperature logic should have a smoothing/rolling average feature to prevent the knee-jerk throttle up and down of the fan. To have gotten 5 stars, the cooling pad should be made out of aluminum to match my Razer laptop.