7 Gaming Laptops With Best Cooling System (2023) – Good Thermals

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How does it feel when your gaming laptop overheats while gaming? Very Bad? Overheating of gaming laptops is a common issue for gamers. A year ago I was in the same situation as you. Searching for gaming laptops with best cooling system.

I have tried and researched an average of 84 gaming laptops from different brands and tested them. Amazingly most of the laptops have an average cooling performance. Even a lot of people have strongly recommended me those laptops. Only a few of them have a perfect cooling system. And I have listed a few best of them.

So, how did all this happen?

In July 2019, I have an average core I5 6th gen gaming laptop which heats up too much while gaming. After half an hour of gaming. My laptop’s body feels as if it’s placed on fire. I decided to find a lot of solutions online. Like changing laptop position, cleaning air vents, blowing the internals of the laptop, and even using cooling pads. TO BE HONEST, nothing worked. So, I decided to buy a new gaming pc with the best cooling.

I visited all shops in my locality, searched forums like Reddit and Quora, watched YouTube videos, and read articles online. And tried to get as much information as I can. I usually go out to the shop manager and ask him if I can compare their cooling by playing the same game on each laptop. A few allowed me. Through research and hands-on usage,  I compared the cooling performance of nearly 84 top-notch laptops.

Factors Affecting Laptops Cooling

To be honest there are hundreds of factors that are affecting the cooling performance of laptops. But here are the things that play a major role!

• Thermal Design of Laptop

Thermal design means how well the heat sink, heat pipes, intake ducts, output ducts, and fans are engineered.

The heat sink design should be such that it collects maximum heat from the heating source using heat pipes and blows away this heat through convective cooling (fans).

Heat Pipes need to be made of pure copper and they must be superconductive.

Intake and output ducts must be designed so that they may support maximum airflow.

The fan design (n-type, simple design, aero file design), the number of fans used, and fan CFM (Cubic Feet Per Minute) are contributing directly to the thermal performance. Indirectly CFM means how much air a fan moves. So we can say cool gaming laptops have an excellent thermal design.

• Laptop Casing

The body material of the laptop plays a major role in its cooling. Usually, the chassis is made up of plastics or aluminum. Aluminum is a conductive material and therefore it conducts heat much better making your laptop prone to overheating issues. So, always prefer a metal body laptop for better cooling.

• Components Heat Dissipation

The components present on the motherboard are the only reason why your laptop overheats too much. The components used should have a minimum heat dissipation. You can check them by checking their TDP (Thermal Design Power) as TDP somehow correlates with heat dissipation. The lower the TDP the lower will be heat dissipation.

Gaming Laptops With Best Cooling System

Which laptops have the best cooling system? Enjoy our top picks.

1) ASUS ROG Zephyrus S15

(Gaming Laptop With Best Cooling)

ASUS is at the top when it comes to laptops and it is our favorite manufacturer for high-end gaming laptops. ASUS ROG series desktop products are well-known for their gaming features and the same is the case with laptops.

ASUS ROG Zephyrus series laptops were released around three years ago and they proved themselves to be excellent laptops both in terms of reliability and aesthetics. The latest models from the series are jaw-dropping in looks and come with exclusive features that were not seen in any gaming laptop before.

ASUS ROG Zephyrus S15 is the newest addition to the series and comes with the latest components. The design of the laptop makes it one of the most exciting laptops, with 6.2mm thick bezels and a super-slim profile. The RGB lighting on the keyboard surely attracts gamers and you can fully customize the RGB lighting in this laptop since it supports per-key RGB lighting.

The technical specifications of this laptop make it the best gaming laptop on the list, as it supports up to Intel Core i7-10875H, which is an octa-core processor. The processor has a base frequency of 2.3 GHz while the Turbo frequency is 5.1 GHz. This means that the processor can mightily perform better with a high-end cooling solution and this laptop ensures that well. The processor supports Intel Hyper-Threading as well, which multiplies the threads of the processor by two, making a total of 16 threads. The cache size of the processor is quite impressive for a mobile processor as well, at 16 MB.

The latest AAA games can sometimes utilize more than 16 GB of RAM, especially when you have tasks running in the background and that is why 16 GB of memory is not considered the optimal capacity these days. Thankfully, ASUS ROG Zephyrus S15 comes with 16 GB of onboard memory and has an optional DIMM slot for customization, where you can install 16 GB of memory, making a total of 32 GB of memory. This makes the laptop more than capable of handling even future AAA games and you won’t be suffering from any kinds of stutters.

The graphics card is one of the most important components of a gaming laptop and Zephyrus S15 does not hold back in this matter. The laptop supports up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics card, which is the flagship mobile graphics card from the RTX 2000 series. The graphics card has a VRAM of 8 GB while the quiet performance of this graphics card makes it great for high-refresh-rate gaming. It should easily be able to handle current-generation AAA games at 1080P resolution with ultra settings, providing 150+ average FPS.

The laptop uses two NVME PCI-E 3.0 SSDs in RAID 0 configuration, which highly enhances the responsiveness of the laptop. The capacity of each of the SSDs is 512 GB, effectively making 1 TB of the total storage, which should be fine for most gamers, although you can swap the SSDs later if you want to increase the capacity.

The screen of the Zephyrus S15 is just mind-blowing and it is the fastest laptop panel in the world right now, as it provides a 300-Hz refresh rate. The laptop uses an IPS panel, 15.6 inches in size and it supports GSync technology as well, while the response rate of the panel is 3 ms. The color reproduction of the laptop is better than most other gaming laptops as well, providing 100% sRGB colorspace and 75% AdobeRGB colorspace.

The I/O of the laptop include 1x Headphone-out, 1x MIC in, 1 x HDMI 2.0b, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port supporting DisplayPort / power delivery / G-SYNC / Thunderbolt 3, and 1 x RJ45 LAN Port. The laptop uses a 76 Whr battery, which keeps the perfect balance between size and battery timing.

2) Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming

(Gaming Laptop With Best Thermals)

Razer is although not as big of a company as ASUS, its products are famous among gamers due to gaming aesthetics and durability. Razer started its laptop series a couple of years ago and it got a huge success due to its slimmer profiles and elegant looks.

Razer Blade-series laptops are great competitors of ROG Zephyrus-series laptops and it would be a mind-boggling question to think of a winner among these. Right now, Razer provides two Blade series laptops; one being the Base Gaming series and the other one being the Advanced Gaming series.

The Base Gaming laptop fulfills the needs of most gamers but the Advanced Gaming laptop serves the elite gamers. The design of both laptop series is similar, having a black theme with the Razer logo at the top of the laptop. Some people, including us, dislike the logo, as it feels a bit overkill for an elegant laptop like this. The laptop features a CNC aluminum chassis with a unibody frame, which is one of the reasons for its elegance.

The technical specifications of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming are quite similar to the ROG Zephyrus S15. The laptop comes with Intel Core i7-10875H which is the same processor used in Zephyrus S15 and is capable of handling any PC workload or games you can think of. The RAM capacity of the laptop is limited to 16 GB by default and if you want to increase the capacity, you will have to install aftermarket sticks.

There are three variants of Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming and two of them come with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics card, which tightens the competition of this laptop with Zephyrus S15.

The laptop uses a 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD for storage, which makes it slightly lower in performance than Zephyrus S15, as two SSDs in Raid 0 configuration result in faster performance.

The display capabilities of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming are better than ROG Zephyrus S15, as it provides an option for an OLED panel as well. Yes, you can choose between an FHD IPS panel that provides a 300-Hz refresh rate along with 100% sRGB colorspace and a 4K OLED panel that provides a 60-Hz refresh rate along with a 100% DCI-P3 colorspace. The bezels of the display are even slimmer than Zephyrus S15, at 4.9 mm thickness and the panel comes factory calibrated as well.

3) ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15

(Quietest Gaming Laptop)

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have two ASUS ROG laptops on the list? We thought so and that is why we have included another powerful laptop by ASUS that comes with impressive specifications.

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 is a high-end laptop series that was released in conjunction with the ASUS Zephyrus series. This laptop series is famous for its flashy looks and wide use of RGB lighting, although we find the Zephyrus series laptops to be better in looks.

The design of the laptop is quite different from Zephyrus S15 and it is a rather bulky laptop, which does indicate that it is going to be an excellent thermal cooling laptop. There is an RGB lighting bar at the front and sides of the laptop, which creates that unique gaming aura that people seek in a gaming laptop. Moreover, there is aggressive branding on the insides of the laptop as well, which is why this laptop is not so suitable for office usage. There is the ROG logo at the top of the laptop, which is also RGB-lit and is fully customizable through the software application.

The processing capabilities of this laptop are the best on the list since this is the only laptop that provides support for Intel Core i9-10980HK, which is the fastest Intel mobile processor right now. This processor is not much different from Intel Core i7-10875H since it is an octa-core processor as well, the processor surely runs at higher clocks compared to the latter. You can also buy the laptop with Intel Core i7-10875H, which reduces the overall price of the laptop. The laptop provides 2 x DIMM slots for the memory and by default, you can have a maximum memory of 32 GB.

The graphical capabilities of the laptop are a bit lower than that of the previous two laptops, as it does not support NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super. Instead, you can get the laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics card, which is around 25 percent slower in performance. At least, the VRAM of the graphics card is still 8 GB, which seems to become a norm for high-end gaming.

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 provides two options for the display. You can get the laptop with a 15.6-inch 240-Hz IPS panel or with a 300-Hz IPS panel. Both panels have a response time of 3ms and support 100% sRGB colorspace, which is why people who want to spend less should buy the laptop with the 240-Hz panel since it is going to be more than enough for even high-end competitive gaming.

4) Alienware m17 R3

(Cool Gaming Laptops)

Alienware is the subsidiary of Dell and it designs some of the most powerful laptops in the world. Alienware manufactures gaming hardware components and laptops are its specialty.

Alienware m17 R3 is the latest model by the company that comes with similar specifications to the previous laptops but the design of this laptop is a lot different. First of all, this laptop has a gray-colored theme and has boxy corners, similar to some professional-class laptops. The lid of the laptop is significantly higher than the base of the laptop and uses a single large hinge at the center. The RGB lighting in the laptop is present in the Alienware logo at the top as well as the back-lighting of the keyboard.

The best thing about the laptop is that it offers a lot of customization during buying. You can buy the laptop with Intel Core i7-10875H or Intel Core i9-10980HK. The RAM capacity of the laptop is 32 GB, as it uses two 16 GB sticks of 2666 MHz. The frequency of the sticks is although not so good, it should not be much of a problem with Intel processors.

The storage capacity of the laptop is the best on the list, as it provides support for two 2 TB NVMe PCI-E drives in Raid 0 or Raid 0 Plus configuration with an additional 512 GB SSD drive.

For the graphics card, this laptop can be bought with either NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, RTX 2070 Super Max-Q, or RTX 2080 Super Max-Q, giving a wide range of choices to the customer. The major difference between these graphics cards is that of the CUDA cores, where RTX 2080 Super has the highest number of CUDA cores while RTX 2070 is the slowest among these. All of these laptops come with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.

Alienware m17 R3 provides two options for the display where you can get the laptop with either a 17.3-inch 1080P IPS panel with a 300-Hz refresh rate or a 4K IPS panel with a 60-Hz refresh rate. The 300-Hz panel comes with 100% sRGB colorspace while the 4K IPS panel supports 100% AdobeRGB and supports higher brightness as well.

5) Acer Predator Helios 300

(Cool and Quiet Gaming Laptop)

Acer needs no introduction to anyone since it is one of the most famous companies in the world in the laptop industry. Some of the world’s most powerful laptops are designed by Acer and its Predator Helios series is hugely appreciated for its great price-to-performance ratio.

Acer Predator Helios 300 is no doubt the cheapest laptop on the list but it still packs quite some performance under the hood. The build of this laptop is not as good as the likes of Zephyrus S15 or Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming because it utilizes both metal and plastic in its body and feels a bit flimsy. The thickness of this laptop is more than any other laptop on the list but that is why it harbors a powerful cooling solution too. There is a lot of RGB lighting on the laptop, mainly due to the larger part of the keyboard keycaps being transparent, allowing RGB lighting to seep through.

The laptop supports Intel 10th generation processors, up to Intel Core i7-10750H, which is a Hexa-core processor with twelve threads. For most gamers, a Hexa-core processor is going to be more than enough for gaming since most AAA games these days do not utilize a higher number of threads. The RAM capacity of the laptop is limited to 32 GB, which makes it great for multitasking as well.

When it comes to graphics cards, this laptop comes with either NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or RTX 2070. The RTX 2060 is a mid-range graphics card that comes with a fewer number of CUDA cores and has a lower VRAM of 6 GB compared to the 8 GB of VRAM in the RTX 2070.

6) HP OMEN 17

The next laptop that we have on the list is HP OMEN 17 and the OMEN series by HP is quite similar to the Helios series by Acer. Both of these laptop series comes with mid to high-end specifications and provide an impressive price-to-performance ratio. The build quality of this laptop feels plasticky just like the Helios 300, although it is not going to break with usage.

The design of the laptop feels somewhat bland at first since the lid of the laptop has wide spaces at the sides. Despite that, there are two hinges on the laptop and those too are quite small. The thickness of the laptop is similar to the Helios 300 as well, making it less portable than other laptops on the list.

For processing, the laptop uses Intel Core i7-10750H, the same which is used in the Helios 300. The RAM capacity of the laptop by default is limited to 16 GB. For storage, the laptop provides a 512 GB NVMe SSD, which is not as good as others on the list.

The graphics card used in the laptop is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, which is a bit better than the Max-Q variant, although it is not as good as the Super variant. The VRAM of this graphics card is 8 GB just like the other RTX 2070 variants.

7) MSI Creator 15M A9SE

The last product on our list is by MSI which designs high-quality computer products. MSI Creator 15M A9SE-043 although targeted towards content creators, is indeed a powerful gaming machine as well. The silver-colored theme of the laptop makes it marvelous and you can use this laptop in your office as well as home usage for gaming.

The laptop comes with Intel Core i7-9750H, which is the previous-generation Hexa-core processor with twelve threads. The RAM capacity of the laptop is 16 GB, although you can upgrade the memory later.

MSI Creator, 15M comes with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 that has 6 GB of VRAM and is considered a mid-range graphics card, as described earlier. You would still be able to get more than 60 FPS in most games on ultra settings with FHD resolution. The display of the laptop offers a 120-Hz refresh rate and it uses a 1080P IPS panel with 45% NTSC colorspace.

FAQ’s

1) What is vapor chamber technology?

Instead of using multiple heat pipes, many manufacturers use a large flat chamber that uses its entire body to cool the CPU or GPU, which is called vapor chamber technology.

2) Does a higher number of blades in a fan increase airflow?

A higher number of blades in a fan helps achieve stability and although the airflow is not much different, the reduced turbulence improves acoustics by a lot.

3) Can we change the fan speeds in gaming laptops?

Although it should be an option in all laptops, most low-end gaming laptops do not allow fan speed customization while the high-end ones allow that through software applications.

4) Can overclock increase the temperatures of the laptop?

Overclocking a component can increase the temperatures because the voltage gets increased as well, which further increases the heat output.

5) What temperatures are safe for a CPU or GPU in a laptop?

Most gaming laptops can withstand temperatures around 95 degrees and it should not be much of a problem with intense gaming sessions but going past that could be problematic in the longer run.