Thermaltake Massive 12 Max Steel Mesh Panel with 1 x 120mm and 4 x 80mm Fans, 10"-17" Notebook Cooler CL-N018-PL12BU-A

Based on expectations and price I have given a 5 star rating. This is the also the first time I have purchased a laptop cooling pad so I have nothing to compare it to. I read a lot of reviews, so while I'm not that impressed with this I doubt I'd really be much happier with the other cooling pads I viewed online. One of the primary reasons I purchased this cooling pad was a switch to turn off the lights which for whatever reason most of the others did not have. So that alone eliminated most of the competing products. Although really with the laptop on top of the cooling pad you won't notice the lights at all unless in a very dark room. A second factor was trying to guess which fan layout would likely to best cool my specific laptop (15" Overpowered laptop) based on the location of the bottom vents of the laptop. Chances are it doesn't make a huge difference, but I'd still keep that in mind when checking out different coolers. It fits the Overpowered 15" chassis near perfectly. There is just a little bit extending on the sides, which means a bulkier 15" laptop may hang over some. The Overpowered chassis is relatively compact with somewhat small bezels. The fans are louder than I'd like at the lowest speed, but again I have nothing to compare to. For the price I can't really complain as higher quality fans probably would have cost more. At the lowest speed the fans are audible for sure, but if you don't mind a little noise it isn't a big deal. Noise increases a good amount as you increase fan speed, but it never gets all that loud. The fans don't push much air at any setting which was expected based on the reviews of this cooling pad as well as just about every other one. Unfortunately I haven't really watching temps, but I'd guess it averages about 7 degrees cooler which helps a good amount but it would be nice if it did a little more. I got the cooler as I run the laptop basically all day with several virtual machines. Although it is a gaming laptop I haven't done much gaming on it yet, so I have no idea if it might make a bigger difference when pushing the system with demanding games. The included USB cable is a bit long, but that is understandably necessary to support different locations of USB ports on laptops. I bought a 6 inch USB cable to keep from having a cable dangling so that was an added expense. So without having personal experience with other cooling pads, I don't feel I have any reason to take any stars away. I'm not unhappy at all with my purchase aside from wishing it was more silent, but if I was buying a second cooling pad I'd definitely take another look at other options before just buying a second one of these. If keeping my requirement of no lighting (or a switch to disable it like this has) there really aren't many alternatives though. Most likely I made the right choice buying this cooling pad over the others on Amazon.

I am very pleased with this cooler. It comes well packaged and includes a usb cable to power the unit. The cable I received is about 12" long. The cooler is the perfect size for my Toshiba Satellite A665 laptop. With the fan setting on high I can definitely hear them but I slowed them down with the control on the side of the cooler to about 50-60% and I don't even notice them. After a little testing I found that about 35% fan speed is all I need to keep my laptop in a very cool state. So now they are basically silent. I keep the blue lights turned off as they add nothing to the performance. My laptop so perfectly fits the size of the cooler pad I wouldn't really notice them anyway. To address some of the comments in other reviews regarding the construction of the unit I have to say it is actually better constructed than I was expecting. Yes it's plastic but I do not feel the unit suffers because of it. If you intend to use this sitting on your lap then it very well could allow too much flex and may cause some issues such as the fans rubbing against the case. But I have it sitting flat on my desk and powered through a USB hub connected to my docking station. It works beautifully this way and have noticed zero issues with the performance thus far. I always review products with the price of the item at the forefront of my process. If this was say a forty-five dollar cooler then I would have to be more critical of the material choices the manufacturer made but at less than twenty-five dollars it easily surpasses my expectations and I would certainly recommend it for someone using it in a similar fashion to myself. I've only had the unit for a very short time so if my opinion or the performance of the cooler changes I will update my review, Note: I was NOT provided a free unit for this review. I purchased it myself after researching coolers when my old one died. I only point this out because the prevalence of "provided product" reviews is getting out of hand in my opinion. Not to say that all of those reviews are untrue or skewed by the lure of getting free product but instead because I personally give those reviews MUCH less weight than a review from someone who had to lay down their own money to obtain the product.

I use this to cool my Gigabyte Aero 17 laptop and it works very well overall. It's pretty quiet. Does a very decent job pushing air. It makes a slight hum sound but it's reasonable (I mean it's gotta make SOME noise to move air). Pros: - good build materials. Mostly plastic. I think the grille is metal. It feels sturdy overall. - adjustable legs. Set the tilt to what you like. - stylish without being "omg look at me I'm a gamer". The LED light can be turned off separately. - fans can be turned up and down easily with a wheel. Cons: - it doesn't point at the right area of my specific laptop. My vents are towards the back and this fan blows more in the center, but that's my fault for not knowing ahead of time. I just shift my laptop down a little. - The USB ports aren't a hub. It's just for power. - It uses a weird USB-A male-male cord. A Mini-B cable would make more sense. If you loose this cable, you might not find another one lying around. - the usb ports are upside down (more of a nit-pick) - the little pegs that you can fold up to keep your laptop from sliding are a little too high for my laptop. I can't type using my laptop while the legs are up. My laptop is also a particularly thin one, so others might have better luck with this. I wish they were adjustable. - airflow can be a little stuffy. Like it blows up on the laptop, but the air has nowhere to go (unless your vents are in the right spot I guess) where if there were airflow channels perhaps the air could move more freely and cool better. This isn't a big issue though. Overall, I'm happy and would recommend this. It's better than a lot of the super cheap coolers out there. For some reason, this type of product attracts a ton of cheap coolers from China that are poor quality. This one is pretty decent.

I just recently purchased my first gaming laptop. My preference of course is desktop, but with growing up and traveling more, a laptop was a good idea. However, I always knew they got really hot, especially with today's gaming technology. I did a lot of research on pad coolers, and came across this one from Thermaltake. This thing is everything I was looking for. Well built, pushes the perfect amount of air, quiet, and has a relatively small footprint considering the support for up to 17" laptops. My 16" ROG Zephyrus fits perfectly with some room on each side, and all five fans are targeting the right areas. The lights are one color, blue. This is fine as I really didn't care for the lights or RGB offered by others. The pad has three levels which is very nice, and a stopper so your laptop doesn't slide off. I'm seeing about a 10-12C drop using this which is more than acceptable in my opinion. The only downside is the switch. It's on the backside, and it's a dial that controls both the fan speed and LED brightness. You can't actually turn the lights off. Other than that, this one is perfect for me. Thermaltake never dissapoints!

This is a very capable and effective cooling pad. I use it for both my MSI GE66 Raider and if you know the MSI machines, they run hot! This pad keeps it nice and cool and the clscreaming fans from kicking on as much when it's being heavily used. I also use it for my 2025 Zenbook Duo keeping it nice and cool. The BIG con of this cooling pad is the bumpers to hold the computer on it. They just put so far that it makes typing extremely painful since they dig into the wrist at certain angles and cannot be adjusted. Having those be adjustable would make this perfect hense the 3 stars. I would have made 4 stars but the pain from the bumpers can't be ignored. Other than that, great took!

Using this to cool a 16" Alienware laptop with a high-end Intel and a 4080 discrete graphics card. Use it mostly for video editing but play maybe 1 game on it. When I edit I switch the laptop into "Performance Mode" to get the most out of the graphics card and the CPU. It gets HOT, fast! This cooler seems to keep everything below critical temps, and so far, all the components are happy. I would have liked a separate power supply however, because it does use up one of your USB A ports. If you don't HAVE USB A (looking at you, Apple) then you'll need an A-to-C adapter to power this, or another USB powered hub it can plug in to. I'd also note that the actual "cooling" grate is in the center and goes 98% of the way to the left and right edges, but it has a 2" or so border at top and bottom of the surface that is solid so NOT cooling. My laptop gets hottest on the top 3" (above the keyboard) likely due to the GPU, so I can't use the pop-out retention clips at the bottom of the cooler, I have to slide my laptop down so the hottest part is over the cooling holes. Something to keep in mind if your laptop, like mind, gets hottest along the top edge.

When searching for a laptop cooling pad I focused on the brands I'm familiar with that know PC cooling. This product from Thermaltake checked all the boxes - on paper that is. However, the Thermaltake Massive 12 is a disappointment. The good: It's all plastic of course, but it feels well built and high quality. It's lightweight and thin enough to be comfortable on your lap. The fan speed is adjustable. Really I think you'd only want to use it to adjust the noise level. No one ever said "My laptop has too much cooling - I want less." The bad (and plenty of it): Let's start with the fan speed adjustment. This is not a big deal to me but some may find it to be. The LEDs are built into the fan and get the same power source as the fans. When you turn down the fan speed, you turn down the brightness of the LEDs. Again, doesn't bother me, but something to make note of if the LEDs are your thing. Every decent cooling product out there - whether it's for PC or laptop - uses fans to pull the heat out and away from the machine. This one... They decided to push air INTO the laptop. It's even right there in the last product photo (which I should've paid more attention to). It shows the air flow coming up and into the laptop with the hope of pushing hot air out. But it just doesn't work that way. The fans should run in reverse to pull the hot air out. Another questionable design decision is the open bottom of the cooling pad. It brings cool air in to push up into the laptop but this really only works if the cooler is on a flat surface like a desk. If you want to use this on your lap, a lot of the air flow is going to be blocked. All in all - I wanted to love this laptop cooler but really - it just doesn't do what it's supposed to do. It doesn't cool my laptop, which still runs hot because it's not pulling hot air out, it's just pushing air in and hoping hot air moves out. I debated on my overall star rating - First I gave it 3 because it looks good and feels good. But then I changed it to a 2 because yeah, it is well made but it doesn't really cool. After more thought I gave it 1 start because I bought this to do one thing - cool my laptop. It doesn't do that and everything else is irrelevant at this point.

After a very extensive search for a laptop cooling pad, I finally found the one. One key feature I was looking for was no lights or at least a way to disable them. This model has a switch on the side just for turning the LEDs on or off. The fans themselves are fine; noise level is reasonable and they do the job. Build quality and price are great.

Works well, easy to set up. Not too loud. Id say perfect for the price

Acaba de llegarme, primero en cuanto a la entrega, el paquete llegó en buen estado, la caja de embalaje estaba muy golpeada y los colchones de aire no inmovilizaron el paquete, por lo que pudo haberse dañado el producto, espero no haya sucedido. En cuanto al producto me quedé asombrado. Es un poco grueso, esperaba fuera un poco más delgado. Sin embargo en cuanto a la funcionalidad, cabe perfectamente una laptop de 17.3". Hice pruebas con bases de datos y me dio una temperatura aproximadamente de 45°C en CPU. Al probar con Fortnite, sin ventilador me dio una temperatura de 69°C CPU y 64°C dGPU, con el ventilador a toda potencia bajo en CPU a 68°C y en dGPU a 50°c. Una vez terminado de jugar y con la computadora en suspensión el ventilador sigue funcionando y enfría a temperatura ambiente en 5 minutos. El material se ve bastante resistente, me gustó el led aunque no se aprecia tanto, pero es un buen detalle. Lo único que no se ve resistente es el cable de USB sin embargo eso se podría reemplazar fácilmente. Sí buscas algo no tan caro pero tampoco tan barato recomiendo mucho este modelo.

Fairly quiet and cools PC well. Wireless mouse works as normal via the USB port. PC still gets warm, but is no longer ‘hot’ when running dual 4k screens with CAD.

El producto no cumple su propósito: reducir suficientemente el calor de una laptop. En la descripción se indicaba que su diseño podía bajar la temperatura de la laptop gamer, pero tiene un desempeño despreciable.

Few degrees less