Cooler Master CM Storm SF-17 Gaming Laptop Cooler

Observation

Using the Sf-17 was a breeze even for my smaller Lenovo T410, the broad strips of rubber were more than enough to keep my laptop in place.The airflow from the large 180mm fan worked just as I had hoped it would.

The one shortcoming found in my testing of the SF-17 was the length of the supplied USB power cable. Through contact with Cooler Master I have been informed that the length of the included USB cord will be longer, no details are available at this time as to how much longer but the prompt work from Cooler Master to fix this issue is nice to see. The the power in for the the cooler is located on the far right side of the cooler. Using my 16″ laptop I was forced to use my only USB port on the right side of my computer as the cable was not long enough to reach the USB ports on the far side of my laptop.

Last we have the test results for the cooler. In order to test the impact of the SF-17’s airflow I first tested the CPU and hard drive temperatures of the laptop without the cooler. Temperature readings were taken at idle once operating temperature was reached, as well as underload without the cooler. All temps were reported by CPUID hardware monitor,  All load testing was performed with Wprime.

After completing my first round of testing I allowed my laptop time to cool below operating temperature and then began my second round of testing, this time using the Sf-17 cooler. This round was performed exactly the same way while including the SF-17.

And here are the results…

As we can see above we seen roughly a 3-4 degree drop at idle and while under load our test results only continued to improve. The i5 within my Lenovo T410 has run warm since day one. Over the last few weeks of testing the Sf-17 I have left my laptop to idle for days at a time without issue as well was many hours under load.  As with any laptop cooler we would like to remind you that results will always vary from computer to computer.