Aero 15-W Cooling with Screen Closed

Afternoon all!

I have the Aero15-w, enjoying it immensely, but now I'm considering running it with my larger screens attached as a main PC. My questions are:

1) I know that the cooling in this rig is a bit different then most (pulls up through the PC instead of down), Does anyone know of any cooling stands that work for this?
2) I plain on running the extra monitors with the screen closed: does anyone else do this, and how does it impact your cooling? are their actions you've taken to reduce the heat in this state? (i.e. undervolt GPU, etc.).

and thanks ahead of time for your answers! eagerly awaiting information, as I'm planning on handing off my larger PC to my son, and this will be my main PC for the next year or so. I mostly game and watch video, though my games at this moment aren't too intensive (Path of Exile, WoW, etc).

 

The Aero 15 has similar cooling to most other laptops. It has two fans that pull air up from underneath the laptop, and then exhausts it out the back and up the hinge.

What do you mean by it having different cooling than most? AFAIK most laptops are the same, they have fans that pull air up from underneath the laptop and then exhaust it out the back / sides / hinge. Examples include the Razer Blade, Dell XPS 15 etc.

As far as operation with the lid closed, I'm not sure myself, and I don't know how much air gets pulled through the keyboard.

However, the top area around the power button tends to get very hot on my model under load, and I wouldn't want that kind of heat near my screen long term.

 

Hi the bottom of A/B parts (whole LCD module) has been re-designed so when lid closed the heat could be still be exhausted so there's no problem of using your AERO 15X with lid closed

 

Does this also apply to the first gen Aero 15 (7700HQ)?
I remember that the CPU was downclocked and thermals were worse than just keeping the lid open during my testing.