Razer Blade 14 desk setup

Theguywhobea · October 28, 2017

Hi, hopefully this counts as being a build-log, I mean I did put fans on a thing so it's at least ready for /r/techsupportmacgyver. If this is the wrong section I guess delete it or move it or something, you wont hurt my feelings or nothing.

So, I managed to score a mid 2016 Razer Blade 14 (6GB 970m) in a Newegg Open Box sale for just over $1000, and considering similar machines are selling on ebay in worse condition for 1200-1400 I think I lucked out.

Anyways, everyone knows these things have some cooling issues and fan noise issues, I haven't had much for cooling issues but I can't help wanting to add fans to everything. I already had this sick laptop desk mount, it's got some breathing holes so I figured why not add some fans?

I found some USB powered fans off Amazon for cheap ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IJ2J2K0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) The quality is honestly way better than I expected, their not silent but running at only a max of 5v I never really hear them

Here's how they look from the top.

Couldn't seem to get my phone to focus correctly, and yes I did clean up the cables after this.

You can see there is a decent gap for airflow underneath.

I feel like it looks pretty clean like this.

I didn't really take any baseline readings but after this I ran Heaven Benchmark for around 20mins while watching some twitch streams to put a good load on the system. CPU got to 65C, GPU got to 79C with +135 on the core and +300 on the memory. CPU was undervolted 0.165v. Fans still get extremely loud but I can't hear them too much with my window fan or air conditioner running anyway so I wasn't too bothered.

Oh yeah, ambient temps were around ~70F (21C).