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EpicFun

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For someone who is getting into animations in Blender and Gaming with a laptop such as MSI Pulse GL66 11UEK-034 Does it really need a cooler in order to minimize over heating of the laptop ?download (13).png


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Alex Glawion

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First you need to check where the exhaust vents on the Laptop are. Some blow the hot air out the bottom, which would make a cooling pad inefficient or even make the entire situation worse.

That said, Laptops can be run just fine without cooling pads, BUT they'll throttle earlier and have lower sustained clocks for both the GPU and CPU without one. With a cooling pad you'll likely see slightly higher boost clocks for both the GPU and CPU which translates to slightly faster rendertimes.

Laptops don't overheat per see, they have in-built throttling mechanisms that adjust the clock speeds of your cpu cores and gpu core and vram clock to make them produce less heat. So overall, unless you have bad thermal paste or totally clogged vents and the heat can't escape at all, a Laptop shouldn't break just because it gets hot. Performance of course suffers.
 
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First you need to check where the exhaust vents on the Laptop are. Some blow the hot air out the bottom, which would make a cooling pad inefficient or even make the entire situation worse.

That said, Laptops can be run just fine without cooling pads, BUT they'll throttle earlier and have lower sustained clocks for both the GPU and CPU without one. With a cooling pad you'll likely see slightly higher boost clocks for both the GPU and CPU which translates to slightly faster rendertimes.

Laptops don't overheat per see, they have in-built throttling mechanisms that adjust the clock speeds of your cpu cores and gpu core and vram clock to make them produce less heat. So overall, unless you have bad thermal paste or totally clogged vents and the heat can't escape at all, a Laptop shouldn't break just because it gets hot. Performance of course suffers.
So it is not important to have one, right ?
 
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Nope. Laptops are made to handle their own heat. A cooling pad might get you slightly higher performance in extreme situations, but apart from that In my opinion a cooling pad is a luxury and a bit unnecessary. :)
 
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Nope. Laptops are made to handle their own heat. A cooling pad might get you slightly higher performance in extreme situations, but apart from that In my opinion a cooling pad is a luxury and a bit unnecessary. :)
Thanks for the advice :)
 
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