One of the Christmas 2024 presents we opened in our family, was a aluminum Dacota Platinum laptop stand. Like the one below:

Dacota Platinum, alumiininen kannettavan tietokoneen teline — Power.fi

Very convenient! It actually seem to keep the laptop cooler, because now there is plenty of space underneath it, which at least should act as passive cooling surface area. This is a MSI intel i5 Core-based laptop, which has had its own issues with quite hot left-top corner, right next to the Tab key. Especially playing fast pace FPS games makes it quite hot.

The heat that a CPU (processor) generates, propagates inside from the laptop, mainly through forced air convection by the fan. But would imagine it doesn’t hurt to keep the laptop’s bottom well ventilated as well.

Load factor is now at 2%, and when I started a self-made simple PyGame-based game, it rises to 7%.

As per Windows 11, there is easy way to see the load, and CPU’s frequency in the shell:

Type the below command and hit Enter. You will get the results.

wmic cpu get CurrentClockSpeed, MaxClockSpeed, LoadPercentage, Name