Does the g73 need a cooling pad?

For say 6-8 hrs straight of daily gaming? Or are the fans powerful enough to do the job w/o overheating issues granted that the paste job was good?

If so, would an addition of 1/4 in. laptop rubber feet do the job as well as a cooling pad due to the air flow underneath?

 

The G73 releases air from the back. That said, I do have a Thermaltake Massive23 that drops my temps by 5-6 degrees idle due to the vents at the bottom. The inclination and extra support is also very nice. I'd recommend investing the 30$, it's well worth it.

 

Nope, it doesn't. I've never once used a cooling pad with my G73 and it remains cool throughout all my hardcore gaming sessions, just give it some air above and underneath and you're good to go.

 

The JH, as long as you don't get a crap paste job (or have repasted the GPU yourself), should be fine. The JW runs even cooler than the JH. Unless you like to game with the laptop actually in your lap, you shouldn't need one for cooling.

 

I also have a Thermaltake Massive23,
bought it the same day i bought the g73.

I only use it when gaming, and i guess it helps reduce a few degrees due to the extra bit of air intake from the bottom

 

Hello i'm new here but, i whant just to say that i've got the zalman nc 2000 coolin pad today, and so far i can say that my idle temperature droped about 7 degrades celsius and in furmark is a little more about 10 degrades celsius, nou i have a temperature of about 87 in furmark, and without the cooling pad is 97.I havent done a repaste i'm not at home i'm abroad and i don't want to do it here, cause if i make a mistake here im not so sure i can corect it so easy. I just want to say that is pretty cool the pad and i didn't thin it woul work so great.Sorry if i made mistakes in my writtin but my english is a little bit rusty.

 

I have ran mine outside at a temp of 97deg F for 5 hours, and it did not bother it at all. And this was both gaming and doing video Forensics that loaded up the Notebook to full use.
I have also been working outside in temps at 26deg F for most of the day doing Forensics and it worked fine . When the heatsinks are working as they should then the G73 will run very well in almost any temp range you will use it.
I have not tried it in temps over 100 F yet so cannot post on that.

Over all this is a tuff Notebook , I have had other brands that just will not work when outside. Some brands just will not work well outside of the controlled air conditioning of a building .

 

I have one of these and, though I haven't recorded any drop in temps (not saying there hasn't been a drop - just saying I haven't recorded any), it keeps the G73JH elevated and adds 4 more USB ports which is what I needed it for.

Targus ChillHub XC

 

That's good, and the extra USB ports would be nice. There is no reason not to get one as it will not hurt anything that is for sure.

 

I have mine with a cooling pad, but the only decrease in temps I'm getting is about 1 to 3 C degrees less. not much if you ask me and you can certainly live without it.

 

No.. nver needed it.. runs cool.

Panther214

 

G73JW doesnt

 

the JW doesn't because it has redesigned thermal system with better paste and pads compared to G73JH.. The JH also doesn't need cooling pad if you have thermal paste properly applied.

Panther214

 

ha ha
and G73JH does?

 

I use a Zalman NC-1000 (yeah, the small one) and it makes ~5*C difference for me. You'll have a hard time convincing me otherwise, I have temp charts to prove it.

 

Jw runs cooler..
few JH models do overheat...

 

Truthfully, having a fan blowing over your keyboard would do more for cooling these machines then one or two on the bottom.

 

I have a cooling pad here and tried it with my G73JH and I can say that it did not do a thing.
In fact as I have tested them with other systems I have found that all but a few it does not help any at all. Or so little it is not worth the time to hook up. Some Notebooks do get some help from the cooling pads but most do not as the way the air is pulled through the computers they really have no effect other than to keep the bottom of the unit cool a little.

They will keep the heat off ones legs so that may help some who hold there Notebook on there laps. But other than that they really do not help much as I see it .

One type I did see that helped was one that you put in the freezer, now that one did help cool the machine but it did not last very long as the heat would thaw it out in little over an hour. But it was a pain keeping it Frozen and having to go and get it , so that was not very handy as I saw it.

 

But if you do want to game with the laptop in your lap?

Or if you want to be able to put on a bed sometimes?

Or even on a surface where one of these metal stands isn't appropriate - or does anyone know of a pad which would help out in these circumstances?

 

If a cooling pad doesn't help at all, how could putting it directly on a bed "hurt" it? The fact is, the G73 still does draw a small amount of air from below the laptop, and having cool air down there does help, even if by some small amount.

 

Agreed. While the most/any of the G73's dont need a cooling pad for most any situation, it does draw some air from the bottom and could benefit a bit from being laid down on something non-airflow-restrictive.

Having said that, I bought a Zalman Pad to put my G73 on just to get it up off the table (or to take it with me to Lan parties) as I did notice a few degrees difference (higher temp on the table or on a fabric, lower on the pad or even just elevated in the air)

 

If a notebook needs a cooling pad, I would return said notebook.

All you should ever need is a flat surface so that the air inlets aren't blocked. But I've found I can even play games with the G73 on my lap and it doesn't overheat. It runs cooler than my previous Dell XPS M170.

 

Yes, most toasters and MBPs do too. That's not much of a recommendation

But seriously, the g73 should *not* need a cooler. Others, yeah, due to poor design, you'll need a cooling pad (but really, you should return it if it's one of those poorly designed ones).

 

I think the 7800 Go GTX put out about the same level of heat as the MR5870. They both have 2xheatpipe cooling setups and both will hit 95-100C. It's just that the bottom of the G73 doesn't get nearly as hot as Dell's design.

The Pentium M was lower heat than the i7 too. They actually had the airflow after the CPU heatsink blow through one of the GPU's heatsinks so one GPU heatsink wasn't exactly ideal.
linkie

I came up with a "brilliant" zero cost cooling optimization for that thing. Caps of plastic soda bottles placed beneath each of the feet lifted it up about 3/4" and really got some air under it.

 

I prop the back end up with a wooden toy block. This is sufficient enough to keep mine cool even after 6-8 hours. I think I actually had it gaming for 19 hours straight just a while back from a LAN fest (Borderlands/SC2/Bad Company 2 all very high settings and native res).

Mine's a JH-B1 with original paste. Might be thinking into getting a repasting job, or just clean it out since it hasn't been cleaned since I got it 3 months ago.