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First of all, before you get the coolers, there are a few things you can do to improve your laptop thermal performance: 1. If you have had this laptop for quite some time, you might want to clean its cooling components, as dust is the most common cause of poor thermal performance. 2. If the cooling fans are clean, you might want to consider undervolting. On most modern laptops, this will decrease load temperature, increase battery life and would often not reduce performance. Now onto the cooling pads with fans. Various testing show them to decrease temperature by 5-10 degrees. I have not tested these pads with fans myself, but I've been getting similar result with raised feet like this. This is done on Razer Blade Stealth 13 2018. My theory is the extra fans from the pads do not blow air directly onto internal components, so it does not provide any "cooling" function other than blowing more air into stock cooler. In this configuration, stock coolers will be the "bottleneck" for the amount of air being sucked in. The raised feet in the link is able to give more clearance underneath laptop, so it can achieve the same result as the cooling pads, without introducing additional fan noise. They're very portable too. Therefore before you invest in those bulky pads, I would suggest you to find something (for example thick books) to raise the back end of the laptop, and see if it you're satisfy with the improvement (if any). Then you can decid to get a proper raised feet or cooling pad.

Yes my PC has been running flawlessly after I swapped to a new SSHD. My guess is windows update probably caused some conflict with the driver.. but who knows. Doesn't matter now, I'm just glad it isn't a bigger problem such as malfunctioned GPU or Motherboard.

I think HDD is the problem. I found out my Desktop and Document folders are located in HDD. These 2 folders contain some programs that launches at boot. I moved them to SSD so the HDD contains only non-essential files. My PC has been running smooth for 2 days now. I'll update after maybe a week, but for now, thank you for your help.

You were right Realtek driver wasn't the issue. What kind of drive was it? System or storage? SSD or HDD? I suspected the buzz I mentioned during the freeze came from HDD too but I thought it wasn't the cause because I only use it to store music/movies... maybe I should disconnect it and see if it helps.

Hey OP, do you happen to have Realtek audio drivers installed by any chance? My wife's PC started to behave the same, and the only change I did was install that driver on her PC. Did some research online and apparently many people have experienced multiple issues with that driver. I just switched to default windows audio driver on my PC. I'll report back if this fixes the issue.

My computer still freezes even when Reliablilty Manager shows 0 events and Event Manager shows nothing at the time when PC freeze..

I just checked reliability history on my machine. 2 services has stopped working almost everyday: 1. Sound Blaster Audio Service (from Creative sound card which I removed awhile back) 2. GameManagerService (Razer Synapse 3) Most recent critical event was this morning which is roughly the time my PC froze today. I hope this is the cause of my issue. Let me see if I can fix it and I'll update here. I'll check Event Viewer later.

Just for your information I've tried stress testing both GPU and CPU and my PC passed both. GPU/ CPU clock speed and temperature graph in Afterburner shows nothing unusual during the freeze. The graph keeps on going like nothing happened.

Here's my spec: My specs: CPU: I7-7700k OS: Windows 10 64bit Motherbord: ASUS Maximus IX Formula GPU: MSI Trio RTX 2080ti RAM: HyperX Predator RGB 8GB 3333Mhz x 4 Power: BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Monitor: Acer XZ321QU 2K 144hz Acer ET221Q 1080P 60hz Storage: System: Samsung 860 Evo 2.5in 250GB Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 1TB Storage: forgot the spec but it should be irrelevant. It does seem like the only thing we have in common is windows 10, unless you consider having same brand of MB and SSD something in common. You seem more knowledgeable about troubleshooting, is there anything I can check on my end that'll help us understand more about this issue? You mentioned Event Viewer and Reliability History, should I do that as well? Also, I did notice a faint buzz just a brief moment (less than a second) before the PC comes back from freezing. But I haven't been able to figure out where it came from. I'll take down the side panel next time I use it, hopefully I can pinpoint to which component.

Hey bro, I have the exact same issue for months, and I just decided to make a thread here looking for solution, then I saw your post. I'm gonna follow ur post hopefully we can get it solved soon .

This is a 3yr old PC, which I've upgraded quite often for the first 2 years (haven't upgraded much since I received the 2080ti early last year). My last modification would be adding the 2nd monitor maybe a month or 2 before this freeze started to happen. Couple months ago, without any change to system, my screen would freeze (this will always happen), mouse not moving (sometimes mouse can move still), and music would stutters (sometimes it keeps on playing even during freeze) for around 5 seconds, then returns back to normal like nothing happened. This happens while I game but also when I'm doing light tasks such as browsing on Chrome, or sometimes while opening a folder on desktop. There's no pattern to when this would happen. Sometimes I can use the PC for whole day and all normal, sometimes it will happen about once every hour. There's no performance lost before or after freezing. CPU clock/temperature, GPU clock/temperature, and FPS in game all appear normal with no unusual fluctuation according to Afterburner HW monitor, even during the freeze period (the graphs continue on unaffected) My main suspect it's my GPU because I have aftermarket cooler, and audio seems to be unaffected sometimes during freeze. However running 3DMark will give me usual result, and I pass all stress tests. OCCT 3D shows 0 error as well during a 2 hour test. Temperature under stress tests is CPU: 80+- GPU: 75+-. Gaming temperature is way lower than that at about 65+- both. I have OC on both my CPU and GPU but it still happens when I test it at stock speed. I'm on latest BIOS & GPU driver and Windows 10 fully updated. Much appreciated if anybody can help me diagnose what's wrong. Thank you again! My specs: CPU: I7-7700k OC @ 4900Mhz with Dark Rock Pro 4 & delided Motherbord: ASUS Maximus IX Formula GPU: MSI Trio RTX 2080ti OC @ 2000Mhz with Morpheus II (2x bequiet silent wings 3) mod. RAM: HyperX Predator RGB 8GB 3333Mhz x 4 Power: BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Monitor: Acer XZ321QU 2K 144hz Acer ET221Q 1080P 60hz Storage: System: Samsung 860 Evo 2.5in 250GB Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 1TB Storage: some 3TB HHD i don't remember the spec

I'm using Dark Rock TF on my 4.9GHz 7700k (delid) at ~75degrees under load (27degrees ambient). I'd say it performs pretty well for a low profile cooler.

Dark base 700 has the same modular design and is about $100 cheaper.

Long press the color switch on your dark base (for 5 second or something) and you should be able to control case RGB with motherboard.