Finished Looks
The Thermaltake Massive 14² Notebook Cooler is definately a nice looking and well designed cooler that will compliment any laptop aesthetically and thermally. The 140mm fans are impressive to say the least.
The design is certainly simple yet elegant enough to reside in a working environment, yet has enough flair to compliment a gaming setup as well.
The blue LEDs are not overly bright or distracting, though it is hard to appreciate the overall look when they are hidden beneath a laptop.
Our testing laptop for this cooler is a 17″ HP DV7T which basically swallowed the cooler, however remained stable even at the highest adjustment. Notice that the ergonomics are still reasonable even at the maximum setting.
Test Setup & Testing Methodology
Our testing system for notebook coolers is an HP DV7T, which is fully loaded with an Intel Sandy Bridge processor and a dedicated AMD graphics card. To ensure consistant results, all coolers were set to maximum fan speed and the ambient room temperature was kept at 24 degrees celcius +/- 1 degree. The idle temperatures were recorded after 15 minutes of idle time on the desktop and the maximum load temperatures were recorded after a run of the latest 3dMark software courtesy of Futuremark. The monitoring software used was HWMonitor courtesy of CPUID.
Now that we have the specifications and testing parameters, let us move on to the performance results.
Performance
With the exception of the System temperature during idle, the Thermaltake Massive 14² managed to best the ultra noisy stock cooler as well as the more expensive NZXT CRYO LX. The difference in temperatures for the memory were also very impressive.
During our load testing with 3dMark, the Thermaltake Massive 14² managed to beat the stock cooler as well as the much heavier NZXT cooler. Once again, the memory temperatures dropped impressively.
And there we have it readers, a solid laptop cooling solution from Thermaltake! Let us review some points and final thoughts in the conclusion of our review.
