effective cooling pad for Macbook pro?

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effective cooling pad for Macbook pro?

Can anyone recommend an effective cooling pad for 2011 13 inch macbook pro? cpu core temperature rises to 85-90C during intensive gaming, which is still within allowed range set by Intel. But the fan will be running at maximum speed and is very noisy and it will be better for prolonged CPU life if cpu core temp can be cooled down to about 70-75C at hottest ( 100% usage).

I find that tranditional cooling pad does NOT necessarily help. Belkin cooling pad ( very popular ) does not even bring the CPU temp down by 1 C!! Link below shows the model I used to test:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=belkin+cooling+pad&um=1&biw=1280& bih=899&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ie=UTF-8&cid=14343827250300502177&sa=X&ei=jk-vTc- KGOHA0QHt_4C8Cw&ved=0CGYQ8wIwAg#

So, my dear friends from Mac community, can you recommend a model of effective cooling pad for my macbook pro?

Thanks!

2011 macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), bootcamp

Posted on Apr 20, 2011 2:28 PM

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Answer 1

doyyy

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Apr 20, 2011 8:45 PM in response to skyfire001

I dunno if this is effective or not, but I'm using a logitech cooling pad. The fan is really silent and it uses very little energy, but I'm guessing that's not what you're looking for.

Since Macbook pro doesn't has an exhaust for hot air to come out, only at the rear, the fan at the bottom of a cooling pad won't help that much.

I would recommend the logitech cooling pad since it ***** the hot air instead of blowing cool air to the bottom of your macbook pro, thus helping it stays a bit cool. But remember that it won't do anything extreme, such as lowering your temp by 20 degrees.

Cheers, hope that helps

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Mac-Medic

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Apr 20, 2011 9:30 PM in response to skyfire001

I use a fanless pad called ThemaPAC. It uses heatshift technology.

http://thermapak.com/

17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro  8G RAM  750G HD  120G Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD 

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black6

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Apr 20, 2011 10:12 PM in response to skyfire001

This black aluminium one from coolermaster is great and silent.. I like it because it uses a grid system so you can reposition the fans easily to the known hotspots..

http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2940

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Answer 4

Sep 23, 2011 12:46 PM in response to skyfire001

I used a new Cooling Pad from Altaz. It is specialy designed for 13" MacBook. You can Google Altaz Cooling Pad.

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Answer 5

Sep 29, 2011 4:31 PM in response to skyfire001

For the Altaz cooling pad, you can get for $39.99 on Amazon using code "appleone" when you buy from seller "Altaz"

Here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/Altaz-Inc-AZCP101-Cooling-Fans/dp/B005IHQ8H4/ref=sr_1_9?ie =UTF8&qid=1317339051&sr=8-9

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WittyID

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Sep 3, 2012 9:56 AM in response to black6

Good feedback - is there a way of making sure the MBP does not slide off the cooler?

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Answer 7

Jul 7, 2014 8:12 PM in response to skyfire001

I use a Cool Master NotePal and no longer have to worry about over heating no matter how hard I'm pushing.

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jake079

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Jul 7, 2014 10:59 PM in response to skyfire001

everybody listen up cooling pads don't do **** they just don't the only things to help with cooling is a fan controller application and elevating the vent of your mac cooling pads don't do ****

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