KLIM Mistral Laptop Cooling Pad - New - Powerful Turbo-Laptop Fans (4500 RPM) - Rubber Seal and Dust Filters for Maximum Performance - Gaming Laptop Cooler to Avoid Overheating - 15.6-17.3 inch

Ordered this product along with a different one to replace my old laptop cooler. Both products had great reviews but this one beat the other by a few degrees :) Very happy with the purchase NOW but wasn't initially. Read on for full details but in short, this product was worth the price and keeps my laptop cooler than any of the 4 coolers I have now. This repeatedly beat the second best cooler (and not a cheap one either) by about 8 degrees Celsius on the CPU, 11 on GPU, and about 8 on the system overall. It is well built, well engineered, and has some important little features I like (i.e. the rear air deflectors that seem cheesy but actually make sense). The support that KLIMA provides is first rate and I'd buy from them again in a heartbeat. The full story: Ordered a NEW KLIMA Mistral from Amazon. Package gets here and it was obvious I had been sent a previously sold and returned cooler. The cooler was NOT packed into anything other than its original vendor box. There were old shipping labels cut off that box. The box itself was torn in a few areas and showed obvious signs of handling and wear. I opened the box and pulled out the contents. There were 2 cables loose inside the box, the air deflectors had the backing taken off for the sticky area, and the glue itself was all balled up and nasty. The rubber o-rings were also loose within the box. Nonetheless, I hooked everything up to see what it was like. One of the LEDs up front was not working and one of the fans, at idle and at level 1, was VERY rough sounding. At level 2 and 3 it matched the sound of the other fan though. I contacted KLIMA via their online support page and also sent them pictures. I expected to wait 2 or 3 days for a response and also expected to have to explain things multiple times. I had a response the next morning and right off the bat they apologized and offered to send me a new one. They explained that they did not control what Amazon sent out and that they truly were disappointed and apologetic. "They" was a support representative named Marja and she did a great job over the next few emails, albeit her native language was not English, communicating what was going on. 5 days after my initial contact with them I had my new cooler and I am loving it. Kudos to Klima and Marja for standing behind their product, righting a wrong, and showing that their stance on support isn't just words but actionable truth.

I had been looking for a cooling stand for my Acer laptop for a couple months and wasn’t finding anything that lasted long enough or did much of a good job at actually keeping a laptop cool. After reading reviews on this one I decided to spend the money & take a chance since I thought it may be worth not having to have my mini fan facing my laptop every time I decided to game. AND BOY am I glad I bought it! My laptop would get pretty hot when I game & this has helped so much to keep it cool it properly! Before if I touched the top of it - it practically would burn my fingers off! Now it gets slightly warm but hasn’t ever gotten to that burning hot temp since!! My fans are situated on the bottom of my laptop so that may be also a big reason why it helps so much but even so it has improved the heating/cooling of it immensely!! Now for sounds wise- I use to play games on my ps4 so honestly the sound of something like a jet engine was pretty normal for me but this is way quieter than I thought it’d be! For some it may not be quiet enough but considering I game with headphones on - I don’t ever hear it even if I have my volume at it’s lowest and only barely do if I take them fully off my head! (This may also be because my laptop fans are a little on the louder side aha) The different speeds of the fan also work amazing even when I’m not gaming to keep my laptop at a cooler temp so over all I’m extremely happy with my purchase! The LEDs still work perfectly and the color changing is really pretty! I have mine set with blue just cause my set up is mostly white, black, and navy blue so it fits in with my set up really well! Even if it didn’t have LEDs, I still would have bought it just to try it out after seeing so many people like it. I definitely recommend if you haven’t found a cooling stand for your laptop that works well enough and to try it out because this is worth the money and works just like it’s described!

Short answer to the title question. Yes. Worth the extra money compared to the cheaper cooling pads. First, I love the placement of the intakes for the fans on the cooling pad. The intakes are on the back instead of underneath unlike most cooling pads. Maximizes air flow especially if you're like me and have it on my lap instead of a table, desk, or some other flat surface. They also have some fairly thin foam for filters, which is fine. Time will tell how well they will work and hold up. I can see where they were going with laptop, "chamber". They provide two rubber or silicone seals(different sizes for smaller and larger laptops) that a laptop would sit on top of. Closing that gap and giving the only choice for air to escape is through the laptop's intakes, then of course to exhaust. Now, if your pc is like mine when you open the lid. It will lift the back end of the laptop to provide more air flow when it is sitting on a flat surface. Due to that, I can't get a closed seal leaving a gap at the back. No fault to the design of the cooling pad. Just something you should keep in mind if you're looking at this, but does that mean you should not consider it if yours is like mine? Not at all. It still works very well. I have a 2021 Asus G15, equipped with a Ryzen 9 5900HS 8 core 16 thread cpu along with the RTX 3070. They are undervolted due to them being in a thin and light, "notebook" but still get pretty toasty. I only used Cyberpunk 2077's and Tiny Tina's Wonderland's benchmarks to test the thermals. Both games at max settings they could be set, at 1440p. Using the preset turbo mode through Asus' armoury crate software. I did multiple benchmarks on both games with the pads fans off and the fan's on max speed. With the very first test I did on Tiny Tina's Wonderland with the Klim's fan's off. The CPU reached 97C, but I couldn't get it that hot again. Might've been a issue with the laptop fans not reaching the right speeds. So the highest temp I was able to record consistently was at 87C. With the Klim's fan's set at max, the hottest it got was 77C! 10 degree difference! The average temps without the extra help it sat around 77C. With the extra help it was hovering around 68-70C. That's a pretty big important difference in temps for a thin and light. Cyberpunk 2077's benchmarks in the same order. Max temp without the help had reached 90C. With the extra air flow, max temp reached 81C. Nine degree difference, but pretty huge nonetheless. It was averaging about 77C before and 70C after. I didn't think I would find a cooling pad that would make that big of a difference. Keep in mind I'm not able to get a mostly closed seal for air to escape. So you're mileage may vary depending on what you have in terms of thermal performance. I'm impressed and happy with it. I wasn't sure I was going to like spending the extra money on it, but it's so worth it. It easily outperforms my Havit cooler that I spent around $25 on. Obviously the fans can get loud, but it's a nature of the beast type of thing and I can easily overlook it. Also, the provided cable is unnecessarily long. I wrapped up the extra slack and zip tied it to the grill on the left intake grill.

I have owned this for only a day and already I had to come to write this review. Without a doubt this will be the best money you will ever spend if ur gaming using a laptop. Before I was using some cheaper cooling pad and my laptop would still throttle and frames would dip and games would stutter. Ever since I bought this baby, I monitored the GPU temps before and after and I gotta say the difference was noticeable. Not just in the lower temps but the games no longer stuttered, no more frame dips, and no more high temps. It really works, ignore the naysayers, get this now and suffer no longer with crappy pc gaming. Sure maybe the fans make some noise, but you can't always have your cake and eat it too. There are workarounds to the dealing with the noise, but nothing beats the smooth gaming performance!

After unboxing I must say this is a well built and very nice cooler. My new Lenovo would run hot around 36 showing the battery in the red zone. With that being said, that temp was a Targus cooler with dual fans. So to start the build quality is excellent. Very sturdy and nice additional of the LEDS. Just a note if you have a bigger laptop is a 16 inch the front will cover the LEDS but you still are able to see them. It feels very firm and no to big to be able to sit on your lap without issuie.So i changed the seal which was painless and fired it up to see what it could do. After properly seating it and adding the little heat shields on the back I can say Im more than impressed. My battery now shows stable temps of 32 and well below the threshold of being in danger. It has dropped about 5-6 degrees and has no problem holding it there stable. These temps are on setting 2 and not even all the way up top the 3 setting so that should say how good of a job this cooler does. Its night and day difference between the top of the line Targus cooler absoutely no comparison if you want to keep your laptop at a cool temp. On to the noise. Setting 1 you dont hear much of anything. Setting 2 you hear a slight fan noise nothing that is unacceptable ny any means. When I have the TV on I dont hear anything on my lap. Setting 3 you can hear the fans running and is louder but not crazy by any means. With my laptop on my lap and watching a movie I could only hear a slight fan noise. So to sum it uo on certain settings can you hear the fans yes. Is it anything to loud that I wouldnt buy this cooler again absolutely not by any means. Its a very quality cooler that does the job better than any cooler I have seen or used. Its worth every penny and if your considering buying it do it you will not regret it. I defintely give it a 5/5 rating.

Here's my experience after 1 month of using this product: PERFORMANCE. Efficiency is stunning. When playing heavy games with Ray Tracing and stuff my Predator Helios 300 "System Temperature" went down from 85-87 Celsius to 63-65 Celsius. That's the temperature inside the laptop! To say these results are amazing, would be an understatement. For instance, the picture shows temps during 'Control' video-game set on Ultra & High with Ray Tracing on High. Laptops' internal coolers are in silent "auto" mode. Mistral Cooling Pad is set on Max Speed (Mode #3), Forza Horizon 4 yields pretty much the same great results in regards to temperatures. System Temp is >20 degrees Celsius lower than when without the Mistral Cooling Pad. DESIGN. Very thought-through & beautiful design. The bottom of the pad is flat. You can finally put your Laptop on your Laps and feel comfortable without blocking the airflow. Air deflectors on the back are VERY USEFULL too (great idea KLIM). Oh, and RGB lighting is beautiful btw. QUALITY. Very well made. Solid, rigid, not bendy. Does not feel cheap at all. Feels/looks expensive. If the product is really capable of going 5+ years without breaking (as a 5 year warranty "suggests") then it's simply amazing. NOISE. Mistral's Turbo Propellers at Max Speed are still significantly LESS noisy than your Laptop's internal coolers at Max Speed! Great job KLIM! ENERGY CONSUMPTION. It does drain your Laptop's battery a little bit when you're playing video games and your Cooling Pad's speed is in Modes #2 and #3 even when you are plugged into the outlet. HOWEVER, it'd probably take you around 24 hrs of nonstop gaming to drain it all the way down to zero. At idle speed and Mode #1 it does not drain your battery at all (and mode #1 provides very good cooling already, so you might not even need to use Modes #2 or #3 for gaming). By and large, Mistral's high efficiency is totally worth it. THE BOTTOM LINE. If you have a powerful gaming laptop that costs $1.200+ then you better make sure it won't die from overheating without a proper extra cooling. KLIM's Mistral Cooling Pad is an absolute Gem. Worth every penny. You'll LOVE it. 5 out of 5.

First, learn to undervolt your laptop. THAT in and of itself may negate the need for a cooling pad. It's easy to do with throttlestop. DON'T overclock your system unless you really want the overheating headache. Not worth the microseconds you **may** gain. The pad is LOUD. I use headphones when I game---and you really should never have to use the cooling pad other than when you're performing high CPU/GPU usage software--gaming in particular. Wear headphones. I like the little light that illuminates the pad, and you can choose which color. Kinda cool. You can tilt it to something like 30 degrees, which is useful when you're sitting at a desk. I like no tilt and holding the laptop on my knees while sitting on the couch. The pad is light and doesn't add much weight to an already super heavy Lenovo Legion 5i. Legion is known for it's heat production, especially since I have an RTX 3060 graphics card running at top performance. I undervolt to -120 and use the pad at medium (it has 3 settings, each getting progressively louder as you increase the speed)---and my system stays at 45-50 degrees through AAA gaming for hours. This pad DOES help. I would NEVER rely on it as the sole cooling supplement with the internal fans for gaming. LEARN TO UNDERVOLT. The pad simply pushes heated air out of the side vents of the laptop and out dual back vents of the pad. It doesn't INTRODUCE cooler air, it simply tries to remove superheated air by circulation. So, as I said, undervolting PREVENTS INITIAL HEAT PRODUCTION when the GPU/CPU are being stressed. Prevention, then mitigation. It's a decent pad. I am not sorry I purchased it. I don't like how loud it is, but again, I don't use it without headphones. It's plastic, but sturdy---and I can see it lasting for quite some time. Good buy if you're okay with the noise level of the fans.

I used this cooler with a MSI GS66 Stealth and it works well. This cooler has done wonders for my MSI cat warmer(the cat sleeps on it when it gets hot, he's old). With all the different weather radar programs I run, the laptop normally gets extremely warm and the fans would run almost constantly. With the cooler, the cooler fans run constantly, but even at the lowest setting, it keeps the internal fans of the laptop from coming on. If you set it to high, you can actually feel the air being pushed out of the laptop vents. It works very well and helps to increase the lifespan of my laptop. The washable filters for the fans are nice, I've already cleaned them once and wow, I didn't realize all that was getting into my laptop before this cooler. Though the laptop tends to slide down a little and the seal at the rear or top of the cooler above the fans tends to get exposed and leaks a little, but a pair of pencil erasers on the stoppers at the front keep the laptop in place. If you use a gaming laptop, I would 100% recommend this to help with CPU and GPU temps, it brought mine down roughly 40 degrees C at low to mid operations(light gaming, streaming) and 15 degrees C at very high end operations(both additional monitors running multiple weather softwares, satellite feeds, multiple SDR's and their frequency waterfalls, plus broadcast software) which doesn't seem like much, but every little bit helps.