Before I get this MSI GT Series GT70 Dominator-895. Which laptop cooler is suitable for this?

Ice cube filled jock strap?

I'll be here all night folks.

Personally I just go through about four of the cheapo ones from poundland each year - they do the job and have an ugly blue underlight that makes it look like a bad car mod from Halfords for boy racers - but it keeps the cats away.

I'm not much of a laptop enthusiast, and I'm going to keep my opinions on why I wouldn't buy a gaming laptop to myself, but I do see that it has a 1TB HDD which is going to add to the heat and would recommend replacing it with an SSD, or buying a laptop with an SSD instead of the one you are thinking about.

As for your question, I do know that great care must be taken in making sure you aren't buying a cooling pad that is pushing air into the exhaust vent (where air is trying to escape) or vice versa. My meager search did not present any solutions or databases for compatibility.

I would suggest you try a more specialized website like Tom's Hardware or even contact MSI directly with that question as they would know what is best.

Good luck!

I'm talking a/b a laptop cooling pad I mean. Sorry.

Like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834992913

The best laptop cooler in my opinion is placing a book on the back of the laptop so it can rest on the edge of the book to improve the airflow. The most important part of cooling your laptop is disassembling it and cleaning the heat sink and fan which get clogged with dust easily and frequently. Maybe that varies across laptop manufacturers but for the Toshiba laptops I've had they never have heating problems as long as the sink is clean. In my experience those pads are not that useful, but you can have a look at tests yourself.

I use a desktop clip-on fan when playing games that tax the GPU. Looks less dorky, cools the top of the unit at the same time (esp where your hands rest on the top), and is useful for more than just cooling the laptop. Also costs less, and doesn't raise up the laptop which might cause ergonomic problems.

The laptop coolers make a minimal difference in the end. But in saying that, I have tried about 3 different ones and the Thermaltake Massive 14^2 (i.e 14 squared) is a pretty good one with two large fans that move a lot of air.

As I can see, there are enough ventilation holes underneath this laptop, so a cooling pad would work.

If you really want to get one, I strongly suggest the Zalman ZM-NC3000U. It uses a quiet 220mm fan (with automatic fan speed control) that covers the entire laptop. It also has rubber grip strips, a height adjustable riser, an integrated 3 USB ports hub, and it fits all 17" laptops.

It costs 58.99$ on newegg.

It is a big 17.3" laptop, but I presume any laptop cooler pad would do fine. Sure the edges of the laptop will go beyond the pad, so what?

Do you live in a hot area with no air conditioning, or why do you feel you need a cooling pad? I didn't feel I needed one with e.g. my big heavy-duty ASUS G75VW gaming laptop, or my other laptops either. The cooling pad helps only little anyway, if your laptop is overheating, then it has some internal issues you should fix, e.g. get the dust out of it. After all, the cooling pad only helps by cooling the bottom surface of the laptop, not really helping much with its innards (CPU, GPU, hard drive...).

I had some overheating problems with my old Lenovo ThinkPad T400 laptop (which is why I bought two cooling pads as a backup), but the only good fix for it was to open it up and dust it off a bit. It helped to get the CPU temperatures considerably lower.

If you still want to buy a cooling pad, try to get one that is as silent as possible. I have bought two cooling pads (which I don't use anymore, see above):

1. A Belkin cooling pad:

http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/2945/dcsgj/Belkin-Cooling-Pad-kannettavan-tietokoneen-jaahdytysalusta-v

I guess it cost 30€ or so. It is noisier than I would have wanted, making a rather loud and high buzzing sound, which I found irritating. That was my main reason I didn't want to use it.

2. 1½ years ago I bought a no-name cooling pad from Thailand, some small store in the countryside. It cost next to nothing and feels very flimsy in design compared to the Belkin pad, but in the end I much prefer it to the Belkin one, simply because it is very silent. You hardly hear the fan is spinning. I haven't seen similar cheapo cooling pads sold here in Finland, maybe because it may be too easy to misuse and break => lots of returns.

The NC2000 is a dual fan cooler. The NC3000 has a single 220mm fan, and gives more airflow at low speed than the NC2000. The NC2000 is still a good product, but it's getting old.

EDIT: I was talking about the NC3000 serie, not the NC4000. Sorry! ;-)

If you're playing with the laptop on your knees (like I do), I'd recommend Cooler Master NOTEPAL LAPAIR - I'm very satisfied with it's performance and quality.

You're probably right. However since my NC2000 is working flawlessly, I see no reason to change :). For the op the 4000 probably is better.

Buy better thermal grease and replace the original manufacturer's shit with it.