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.

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.