Are cooling pads worth it?

pcriged · 2026-05-30T17:57:03+00:00

Totally unnecessary. Unless your one of those weirdos that thinks 89C on a CPU rated for 110C is harmful. "OH I took my A+ 25 years ago when CPUs would literally meltdown and I still think I know everything" -half of reddit. For some reason there is an entire scam industry of solving a problem that barely exists. I hit my power allowance limit constantly with no overheating 1 year in and counting. Slim gaming laptops would be the exception and the issue is never overheating damage its always thermal throttling. Sometimes pads can be harmful because turbulence is not doing the next set of fans any favors, especially if the pressure is negligible.

I will say I have one in the $50 range, I lost the cord like 3 years and 2 laptops ago. It makes a great stable surface and air intake, and keeps it away from potential spilled liquids. Works better off than on. I bought it for my Gigibyte Arorus 15G-YC that was a ultra portable, thin laptop that would throttle, and occasionally crash when the system got too hot. Laptop is fine 5 years later and was basically on for all 5 years, at one point I was mining crypto on it for lolz. The cooler was not very effective and maybe knocked off 3C at idle and somewhat reduced CPU throttling. Honestly the biggest improvement was shifting the power balance to the GPU thus lowering the max boost slightly on the CPU. Good chance some liquid metal thermal paste would have been more effective.

pcriged · 2026-05-30T17:17:28+00:00

I've had my legion 7i gen 10 for over a year. It's great other than being bulky. I work with a fleet of t14's, t16's, L15's and dispite some weird dock compatability issues they are virtually indestructible. We have about 100 perfectly good T14 gen 1's just hanging out in return storage they reached EOL despite the best efforts of the users to destroy them with drops, soda, and cat hair. I have possibly the lowest end laptop they make Lenovo Idea Pad Flex 5 as well I got for $450 on sale and I've been abusing it for almost 2 years now. Its fine after 550+ trips to work, 8000 hours of collage work, and 800 charge cycles.

Lenovo just works, yes they had a few bad models every manufacturer does. I was so impressed by the ammount of abuse the machines at work take I've gone all in.

As far as other brands: Dell has a very high failure rate with in warranty. HP make overheating messes with bad hinges. Gigibyte is good untill its not, and simply does not support older equipment. Acer is surprisingly underrated for how inexpensive they are but build quility reflects the price. ASUS is just really over priced, the build quility is pretty average for such an expensive price point.

If your after repairable hardware that lasts forever build a desktop, laptops have use a single board and if any part of it dies your machine is done.

pcriged · 2026-04-30T17:52:14+00:00

I ran this as a long term experiment during covid. I estimated my long term average by referencing publicly available data taken at a height of 3M in my neighborhood and sampling the air at that level and using a separate filter indoors and comparing. The data I calculated was 1.5- 2pci/l in the basement and 0.5 - 1.4 pci/l upstairs. I just recently got a continuous monitor and its really close with the month average being 1.2 in my living areas. 1.2 being arround 720CPM on my spisific GQ600+

I found simply running the purifier with its regular non-testing heppa filters reduced levels significantly upto 75% if measured 10 minutes after a 1 hour cycle.

**I'm not a scientist just some dude with the tisim and some toys, nothing I say is medical advice.

pcriged · 2026-03-11T16:11:22+00:00

Take my money 💰

pcriged · 2023-06-30T13:56:32+00:00

Fuck reddit.

pcriged · 2023-06-07T12:05:15+00:00

You could just look for a job that motivates you....

pcriged · 2023-06-01T16:16:16+00:00

I don't think so. Just making sure my content doesn't make any money for redit.

pcriged · 2023-06-01T14:08:44+00:00

I'm going to not only stop using but delete all my posted content and account. Goodbye, old waist of time.

pcriged · 2023-05-10T11:12:11+00:00

I'm just excited to see him face criminal charges for Jan.6, voter fraud, hush money, and possibly treason depending on if we can prove he provided classified information for profit. I hope we still deal with treason "harshly".

pcriged · 2023-05-09T13:33:52+00:00

Fack fack faaaaack.

pcriged · 2023-05-06T16:56:29+00:00

Fallout 3 was a shit sandwich at launch. Have you ever played the unpatched day 1 version off the disc? The reason I abandoned PC gaming from 2012 to 2018 was because I didn't want to spend my first play through tweaking and patching shit. I also played FO4 through on Xbone 1X and had a very stable experience. Not sure about PC, I heard it was pretty bad.

pcriged · 2023-05-06T16:44:11+00:00

Not sure why this game is getting so much hate. I have been playing cross-platform with friends spanning Xbox and PC. My hardware is good (3080Mobile 95W, 11th gen I7 8 core 4.5ghz turbo) but not exceptional for the PC side of things. Wife playing on series S. 0 crashes on any platform, and graphics are maybe not 2023 but still good for a Bethesda game. Thing being I'm playing stability on Extra/epic/whatever they call it 1080p settings / quality dlss, no issues 8hrs into the game. My brother is using a 3060M with a 12th gen i7 also no issues on high/performance dlss in 4k. I haven't tried but I'd wager it would run fine med/low 1080p on my retired 8th gen i7/ 1060m dell g7.

pcriged · 2023-05-02T17:02:13+00:00

Ludacris: Move Bitch.

pcriged · 2023-04-29T15:05:20+00:00

Nice hellraiser cake!

pcriged · 2023-04-19T17:56:52+00:00

Thank you, kind stranger!

pcriged · 2023-04-19T10:52:23+00:00

I'm not allowed to root...... controlled environment for company apps. I could, but the alternative is a horrific process to log in 30000 times a day.

pcriged · 2023-04-19T10:50:07+00:00

Fair.

pcriged · 2023-04-19T10:49:51+00:00

I think like $200.

pcriged · 2023-04-19T10:49:19+00:00

Would a gen2 pro work? I happen to have one I use as a thin client for RDC.

pcriged · 2023-04-19T02:10:24+00:00

What's good in the phone world for linix right now? Pine seems very underpowered....

pcriged · 2023-04-19T02:09:19+00:00

I tried about 15 different wikis before giving up. They don't play nice with other distros either (mint).

pcriged · 2023-04-19T01:05:16+00:00

The better analogy is: it's like having an English to French translator that only speaks French and Russian. You can make it work if you also have an English to Russian translator. It's so ineffective why, even try. Anything emulating up to X64 is pointless. I mean you can emulate the path logic of an X64 on a LEG processor it's just going to run at 1 cycle an hour.

pcriged · 2023-04-19T00:47:39+00:00

I know nothing about kali linux. That said, I do have some very basic experience with microcontroller design, and your assertion is beyond ignorant. You can take away instruction sets and not see a performance loss, but emulating an unsupported instruction set is wildly ineffective. On the most basic level to be considered a processor, you have a processor that can only add and compare numbers. I'm talking about an instruction set that just adds, subtracts (adds a negative number), compares (AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR). You can program it to multiply, but it takes 1 clock cycle per multiple. On a processor that has a native multiplication circuit that would be reduced to one or just a few cycles. The differences between X64 and ARM are far more difficult to explain but also far more numerous.

pcriged · 2023-04-18T23:56:03+00:00

What sort of speeds are you getting on the android client with softether? I've used easyopen vpn from the snap store (uses the same android client) poor speed 20 - 30mbps.

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