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

The Razer Laptop Cooling Pad: Adaptive Smart is a solid addition to my setup. It keeps my laptop cool during long gaming or work sessions, with temperatures dropping significantly. The customizable fan curves and RGB lighting are a nice touch, and the fans adjust intelligently based on my laptop’s needs.However, I did run into a bit of an issue—there are magnets in the pad that, when placed under my laptop, caused the screen to shut off intermittently. After a bit of trial and error, I opened it up and removed the magnets, which solved the problem. Not a dealbreaker, but something to keep in mind.Overall, it’s a great cooling pad with some minor tweaks needed for certain laptops, but definitely worth it for the performance and style!

I love my new laptop cooling pad. It is truly as advertised. The fan not only comes with additional software it performs above and beyond. I highly recommend it for you other gamers as my laptop used to get quite hot and now I can feel it and it is cool. Highly recommended.Jon B

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.

Overall, this is a well made cooling stand that offers quite a few bells and whistles for what is ostensibly a fan in a plastic stand.Pros- Extremely powerful fan/airflow, I noticed a solid 10+ Celsius temperature reduction on my Asus TUF 16 with a 4070 TI and Ryzen processor when I had the cooling stand at medium fan speed- Stand lifts the laptop several inches off the ground, ensuring good airflow intake and reduced dust intake- Customizable inserts allow you to use a variety of laptop options and sizes, even those that don't have intake vents on the bottom can still be cooled using the "Frame C" insert without the sealing sponge.- Built in USB hub with three ports simplifies plugging in keyboards/mice quite nicely- Manual power and fan speed buttons are easy to access on the side of the pad and the speed indicators are nicely visible in the front of the stand using a series of Green Bar lights indicating the current fan speed- Power passthrough intelligently shuts off the cooling pad when you power off your laptop without having to manually shut the power off or turn it back on when you power the laptop back on.- RGB is surprisingly muted on this stand, giving a nice glow near the front of the stand without being too ostentatious- Removeable/serviceable fan filterCons- Allegedly this stand claims to have "Dynamic Fan Control" via Razer's "Synapse" software, however i could not figure out how to make this work. I installed the Synapse software on my Windows 11 laptop but it did not detect this stand at all, even after rebooting it. I'm not sure if it's sending a background signal using the CPU's power/temperature sensor to adjust the fan speed, but I couldn't see that happening during my gameplay sessions. I had to rely on manual fan control to adjust the fan speed using the external buttons on the side of the stand- Probably the biggest black mark and reason for removing the star. While this laptop stand absolutely does a bang up job on cooling, this thing is LOUD. I'm sure most folks who have powerful laptops that need this kind of additional cooling will already be using headphones to game and content create, so it shouldn't affect them too much, but it cannot be overstated just how loud this thing is, even on medium speeds. The low speed fan noise isn't too bad, you kind of hear it like a low hum in the background, but moving the speed up to medium when I switched from working to gaming really kicked up the noise levels and made me appreciative of my headphones.If you have a significant other or roommate sharing the same space as this thing, it will annoy them as the blower noise is extremely present at medium speeds and higher. It has the same hum/fan noise as a microwave, that would be the best allegory I could assign to it.I couldn't even imagine running this on high speeds without really good headphones or being in your own room with a door shut as the noise absolutely carries across my apartment on max speeds.- Lack of USB C ports. This is more of a smaller complaint, but the with the proliferation of USB-C type peripherals, including fancier keyboards and other devices, limiting the built in powered hub to only 3 USB Type-A ports does kind of detract from the USB hub functionality from this stand, if only from a "future proof" standpointOverall I'm very happy with the purchase here. It is a noisy cooling stand yes, but the ease of setup, customizability, and temperature benefits I can see with my laptop, this stand is worth the investment.