Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Thermaltake Massive TM Aluminum Panel Dual 120mm Fans Adjustable Temperature Sensor 10"-17" Laptop Notebook Cooling Pad CL-N002-PL12BL-A,Black

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

Good construction, pretty quite, and is relativity comfortable in the lap. Does do a good job of keeping my Ryzen 9 cool. I like it's temp monitoring mode, fan speed selection, and auto modes. I'd say that is is well worth the cost.

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Edward S.

AMAZINGLY proficient, effectual, economical, quality built cooling pad - HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2023

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

This is certainly one of the best investments that I have ever made regarding the care of my LAN nodes. I was skeptical after reading the OEM ad for the product. However, I have entrusted the welfare of a LOT of my IT related equipment to the quality cooling care of ThermalTake for a long while and have yet to be disappointed. This product is certainly no exception!!

This ThermalTake MASSIVE (TM) laptop cooling pad exceeds my EVERY expectation! Interestingly, the dual fans run at a very high RPM without producing very much air volume, CFM. However, the combination of the aluminum surface and the large air ventilation footprint are EXTREMELY effective at pulling out the heat and sending in the KOOL.

The control console offers both automatic and manual options for controlling the base temp. and, thus, the fan RPM. I set the base temp. and then select the auto setting. The pad thermally monitors the base temp and runs through the four turbo fan settings as needed in order to maintain the optimum temp. that I locked into the config panel.

I set the base at 80 and it stays within 2 degrees either side of that temp. This marvelous ThermalTake MASSIVE (TM) cooling pad immediately went to work on lowering the operating temp of my laptop that is situated atop the cooling pad. My laptop houses a Gen. 11, i7 CPU that typically operates at between 120 and 150 Fahrenheit. The exhaust air from my Dell PC normally fluctuates from 112 up to 117, as the normative operating temp. Within minutes of activating this cooling pad, it effectively reduced the exhaust temp by 30 degrees, down to 85!!! AMAZING!! My PC's fan doesn't even cycle at all!

No matter at what setting the turbo is running, I CAN NOT HEAR THE FANS over the basic normative room ambiance in my home.

The ThermalTake MASSIVE (TM) cooling pad features two USB ports. One to provide power to the pad and the other is an aux. Out, for running I/O peripherals. Hence, I didn't loose any valuable USB ports.

There are two retractable supports on the rear of the pad that have two settings. These avail me three options from flat to a 2" lift in the rear for angling the cooling pad. Without employing the rear supports the cooling pad is 1" high in the front and 1.75" in the rear. With the rear supports extended, the cooling pad raises up to a 3.75" height in the rear.

The aluminum top surface is VERY slippery. There are 4 pegs that protrude up through the aluminum surface. Two positioned forward and two near the back of the aluminum surface. They are spring tensioned so that they can be manipulated up and down, yet provide resistance in order to prevent the laptop from sliding. All four also adjust laterally from left to right. These are supposed to engage the bottom of the laptop in order to secure it. In my case, they do very little in the way of accomplishing that. Hence, I keep the pad surface level and have employed a thin textured rubber film, that adheres to the aluminum surface, all around the aluminum perimeter as well as down its center. This accomplishes much toward stabilizing my laptop upon the cooling pad.

The ThermalTake MASSIVE (TM) is a VERY well engineered device that is manufactured with high quality materials. Yet, it is deceptively lightweight for being as sturdy and robust as it is.

Pros:

1) Lightweight, yet very well built
2) QUIET
3) EXTREMELY effective cooling device
4) 2 USB ports
5) Either self regulating or manually controlled
6) Sturdy, two position, support extensions for angling the surface

Cons:

1) The aluminum surface offers nothing toward preventing the laptop from sliding around
2) There is no static positioned front barrier that would prevent the laptop from sliding forward when the rear supports are utilized

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Mr. C

Great for laptop used as a desktop

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2017

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

I can't yet speak for the longevity of this product, but it works quite well. I've been using my laptop as essentially a desktop for a while (so I don't use this in my lap), and have had to throttle it to keep the fan from constantly ramping up to jet aircraft mode.

With this thing I've turned off the throttling. This keeps idle temperatures about 8c lower, and it makes it difficult to get the CPU hot enough for the fan to ramp all the way up.

It seems to just make the internal cooling more efficient.

The cons:
1. The temperature readout is a joke, so this thing never speeds up on its own. I've left it on "auto" which seems to keep it running on the lowest speed (which is plenty for me). It's possible the temperature readout would work better on laptops with aluminum cases. But for me it just reads 24c all the time.
2. The vibrations are greater than I'd like to see, but they're in line with desktop computer fans. I wouldn't worry about spinny hard disks. But if you actually used your laptop keyboard this might be annoying.
3. There's no actual manual. You're left to guess about how to control it...

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Docdaddy

Revised review - one of the arms snapped within a month of receiving it, making it useless. EDIT - now BOTH legs have broken.

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017

Style: StandardVerified Purchase

EDIT: I had to revise my review from 5 to 1 stars - within a month, one of the plastic arms that hold up the stand snapped and made this useless. I wasn't putting pressure on it, wasn't doing anything unusual, just simply moved the arms to a higher position and it snapped. I'd noticed when I received it that it had a "line" on that arm and that is where it broke. Very disappointed.

My old Alienware M17x is huge, old, and runs VERY hot. In fact, it has been frequently giving me blue screens of death as it crashes and shuts down from overheating. Simply browsing the internet keeps the fans blowing hard (and I've cleaned it out several times) and doing something like video viewing or editing cranks up the fans to jet engine sound level.

So I wasn't expecting miracles with the Massive A21 cooling pan, but it comes pretty close. While I'd thought I'd prefer a dial to adjust the fan speed rather than normal and high, the single large fan is quiet enough I just keep it on high. The controls are simple - a small on/off switch on the back side of the panel, and a button that gives you normal and high speeds. But honestly, that's all I need. This pad is all about simple. I didn't get the one with the thermal sensors because that's just one more thing to go wrong - I can push the button for normal and high with better discretion than some sensors. Plugs into a laptop USB port. It does not have a USB port on it, so you do lose a USB port on your laptop, but I have 4 on mine and I never need more than two at a time anyway.

Since I've started using this pad, my notebook fans stay quiet, and the bottom of the laptop stays cool. The bottom of this laptop hasn't been cool while running for two years! No more crashes, and very quiet again. For the money, well, cheaper than the new notebook I thought I was going to have to purchase due to the overheating of this one.

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Christopher S.

Don't waste your money

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

So, for context, I've built computers, and I've studied the interesting art of airflow with the focus of getting the maximum performance from thermal-throttled hardware.

BLUF: This product is not a miracle worker, and borders on the edge of being a waste of money. If your laptop isn't properly designed to offset its own thermal waste... this product only introduces outside air into the system. There's no refrigerant or water vapor or any cooling aspect other than the introduction of outside air.

Now if the heat sinks were exposed, this would be obviously very helpful... but most laptops have the fans on top of their heat sinks to pull heat away before exhausting the heat out from the laptop. So this obstructs that airflow, and chokes the system, offset only by the fact that it's shooting more air into the hot system.

My laptop seems to have an intake in the bottom, and exhausts on the sides and back. It's also a 4080 Laptop which has the thermal waste of the Sun, so my temps (according to this "cooling plate") hover at about 100 degrees with no thermal assistance. When the product is activated and running, I see average temps in the upper 90s for a thermal gain of maybe 5 degrees. When the GPU isn't in use I have average temps in the low 80s, and the second I activate the GPU... my temps balloon to the upper 90s before stabilizing.

98 is cooler than 100, but obviously there's very little thermal gain from this exercise.

Oh and there's aluminum that covers 80% of the upper surface of this product, and that would be something... if my laptop didn't have rubber offsets that A. enable my laptop to breathe & B. prevent my laptop from sitting flat on any surface. So my laptop never touches the alum surface. It's just pretty, which again... provides no thermal advantage.

The ONLY good thing is that it is whisper quiet, and that it does prevent my legs from getting scorched.

So there's that. The LED temp seems to work, the USB is a USB 1.0 I'm sure... and I never use it.

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Melanie Richards

Very nice

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

So I needed something for my new Alienware 17 laptop. Mainly because I like to use my laptop while laying in bed before I go to sleep (like more people I'm sure). I went with this one because it looked the most well made. Cost alittle extra but you get what you pay for you know? Well, truth be told this thing is GREAT. I only got it so I wouldnt burn up my laptop when its setting on a bedspread. But I was so impressed I did some test on a solid countertop and while running a 3d game, with the cooler turned on, and the laptop placed perfectly so the fans will blow straight into the vents (granted you cant see the cooler blue LED's of the cooling pad anymore because its tucked under the laptop) but meh, the laptop CPU and GPU was a full SEVEN degrees cooler! That is HUGE for a computer. And that's on a countertop not even on a bedspread so you can imagine. I am impressed, this is a must buy.

The only con is that you can hear the fans running, it's not super loud but noticeable. But I'm sure the internal fans can be changed out with some even more top notch fans if you so desire to take it apart and put quiet fans inside.

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Apostle Pablo

Does a great job and looks great

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2019

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

UPDATE: I added four small 3M wall hangers to prevent my very thin MacBook Air from sliding forward and sideways (which was the only problem I was having). The wall hangers work great! Photos added.

Does exactly what it’s supposed to do and looks good. I use it to keep my MacBook Air cool when doing a lot of video editing that makes the processor work hard and warm up. This unit does a great job keeping the temperature down around 85 (Fahrenheit). Without it running, the MacBook Air will run 10 to 15 degrees warmer doing the same task. My only suggestion for improving it would be to add some sort of ridge near the front to prevent light weight laptops like mine from constantly sliding forward. But I don’t criticize them for leaving that out. One must remember that this unit is designed for universal use with any laptop, which necessarily means that it cannot be designed perfectly for any ONE class of laptops. Overall, I’m extremely happy with it and glad I bought it and I use it every day.

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Jimmy D

I like it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

I bought this to help cool my gaming laptop because the fan noise while gaming was getting bothersome. It's an MSI GT73VR with a GTX 1080 and 4K display. It's 17.3" and weighs just under 9 lbs. I mention this so you know what I'm working with in regards to this cooling pad. It's a big, heavy laptop that can produce a lot of heat, especially while doing heavy gaming at max resolution and graphic settings.

The build quality of the cooling pad seems to be really good. The legs on the back of the pad handle the weight of my laptop fine. There's no dip in the aluminum top like I've had happen with a few other cooling pads. The fans are quiet, even in Turbo mode. While the whole pad was designed for 15.6" and smaller laptops, my 17.3" fits mostly fine. The sides hang over about half an inch on each side. The back hangs off about half an inch as well, while the front has just enough room to access the buttons and see the temperature display. None of the overhang affects the stability though. I haven't had to worry about my laptop tipping either side and there's no worry that the back legs will give out.
There are two USB 2.0 slots on the back and a 2 foot USB A Male-Male cord that you use to plug into your laptop to power the whole thing. Mine is plugged into a USB 3.0 slot and works fine, which isn't the case with all cooling pads. Some seem to only accept USB 2.0 power. You do get the other USB slot on the back to plug something in, but if you're using a 3.0 slot, a 2.0 isn't really a good substitute.
The 4 nubs on the top are the temperature sensors, which are all adjustable and sink down so when you put your laptop on them, they aren't in the way. They kind of help hold your laptop in place when you have it angled, but they aren't entirely useful and shouldn't be relied on to keep things in place. The rubber grips on the bottom of most laptops do more. A little flip-up lip would have been useful here.

Normal idle temperatures for CPU and GPU were about 43°C. With the cooling pad fans on Turbo, the GPU sits at 34°C and the CPU around 38°C.

When gaming, the GPU would regularly hit 85-87°C, causing the fans to jump up to 80%. At 80% speed, it gets pretty loud. With the cooling pad, I sit around 78°C and under heavy load I still only get around 82°C. This is at max graphics, 4K resolution in multiple games including The Witcher 3, Battlefield 1, Fallout 4, WoW:Legion, GTA 5, and Doom. Fan never goes above 60% speed, which is just slightly louder than the cooling pad fans on Turbo. When playing games with audio, I don't even notice the fan noise from either the laptop or the cooling pad.
While gaming, the CPU would usually sit around 67°C. With the cooling pad, it now sits around 60°C.

Overall, this cooling pad works as well as expected. However, I'm only giving 4 stars because the temperature sensors don't really seem to work right. Mine constantly read everything as 26°C, whether idle or under heavy load. Also the lack of a front lip to hold the laptop in place seems like a silly thing to not include.

One thing to take note of though, my laptop is entirely bottom vented, so laptop coolers tend to work a little better with it. The level of cooling you get will vary based on the construction of your laptop. If it's a solid piece of metal/plastic with no vents, the cooling you get won't be as noticeable when compared to a laptop that has some ventilation on bottom.

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Felicia G

EPIC FAIL - Cools 2-3 degrees at MOST

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

Impressions -
All of the fans on Amazon are listed as having strong blowing power, but for my MacBook that runs EXTREMELY HOT while gaming I was more concerned with purchasing a product that offered extreme cooling ability rather than something flashy or cosmetically appealing. I didn’t care that it was plain or even if it were bulky, as long as it worked I would have been thrilled. But it doesn’t.

Value-
The price was mid range as I was able to find cooling pads for a lot cheaper, but also some that were much more expensive. I had very real expectations for this product, since it wasn’t the top dollar laptop cooler I wasn’t expecting top dollar results, but the product still falls REALLY short of my expectations. Perhaps my expectation was led to be a bit higher after seeing such amazing reviews?? I purchased this particular model after doing my research online and finding it land in a bunch of Top 5 lists by product reviewers - one of them even listed this as the #1 Cooling Device on the internet. This leads me to believe whoever reviewed and gave such high praise must have been offered a kick back of some sort.

Performance -
Well I’ll start by saying that I’m sorely disappointed in the overall functionality of the product. While the fans do run very quietly- I needed something that was really going to cool my laptop down. Even at the cost of being loud. I gave the noise level 3 stars since the product was advertised as being very quiet, and it is just that.
Since this laptop offers a temperature indicator I’ve been able to accurately test how well the product performs, and let me tell you, it doesn’t.
I’ve included an image of the temperature reading on my MacBook. While running at “Turbo” for 30 whole minutes my laptop only cools to 80 degrees from 82-83 degrees Fahrenheit. The “hot zone” is actually much warmer and is closer to 85 degrees even with the fans running at turbo.
Firstly, the speed of the fans can only be set to one of a whopping (sarcasm) two settings - ON and TURBO.
While set to ON my laptop cools 1-2 degrees, and while using turbo I got my laptop to cool a whole 3 degrees Fahrenheit. My device still runs super hot and the fan makes very little difference.
I would be happy to sacrifice some noise level for a little more cooling power!

Design-
As you can see in the image I marked up the design is somewhat flawed. While this fan advertised being suitable for the size of my laptop - it clearly does not fit the way it should. I’m unable to use the clamps to keep the laptop in place, however, that doesn’t concern me much, my laptop seems to stay in place fine just using the sticky pads on the bottom of the laptop for grip. But you can see that not only are the user controls completely covered while my laptop is on it, but the fans are a very small part of the actual device. In fact, I’ve marked the area on my laptop the seems to produce extra heat - I call this the Hot Zone - and the vents are actually closed off to that part of the laptop so it’s really only blowing at a blocked off underside of my laptop.
One thing I did like about the design was that it features 4 different temperature sensors so it can actually tell you which zones of your laptop are running hotter than others, but with only 2 fans it’s not like this function actually serves a purpose other than for giving you some extra information. The product would be greatly improved if it had 4 small fans (one per each zone) that could turn on to cool a specific zone that needed extra cooling power- rather than just 2 large fans in the center. Of course again this would be even more improved if there were more than 2 settings. I mean...there isn’t even Low, Medium, High......just On and Turbo.
It would be really cool to see any hot zones run the fan at Turbo Speed to cool everything evenly, but it doesn’t do that either.
There’s an Auto/Manual button that do nothing other than change which zone the temp reading comes from. On auto it will scroll through the zones and display each of the 4 zones temperature for a few seconds before displaying the next zone and cycling through them. On manual it only displays one temperature zone - which is the zone of your choosing.

Summary-
I was grossly disappointed with this product. It’s not a good fit for my laptop and most of the features fall very short of even being useful, the ones that are useful are poorly executed and work at a very small capacity of what I had expected them to. The fans aren’t very strong at all, and cooling just 1-2 degrees isn’t going to cut it when I’m trying to game and stream without frying my device. That being said if I had a different laptop this may have worked a bit better, but for my MacBook it just doesn’t cut it. The laptop still has a huge hot spot that doesn’t decrease in temperature at all and when the overall device is only cooling 3 degrees max on the highest setting I’d call this an EPIC FAIL.
I’m still on the hunt for a better product.

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Maxime Maréchal

It's very light weight, I didn't expect it to be that unheavy!

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

Style: Temperature SensorVerified Purchase

Very nice item definitely would recommend to cool your laptop, however it did not reduce the in-game lag as much as I expected, at least now I'm sure that my laptop will always me cooled.

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