Frzr injects frosty, sub-zero air into your gaming laptop to eke out those extra frames per second

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Line is a regular staple at CES, showing off its high-end milled-aluminium docking stations. This year, the company is back in Las Vegas with an accessory aimed squarely at the gamers among us. Line Frzr is a thermoelectric active cooling device that pre-cools the air before it goes into your gaming laptop.

Traditional laptop cooling solutions might increase airflow into the laptop, but Line’s solution takes that strategy a couple of steps further. The Line Frzr cools the air from room temperature to mid-winter frost that a freezer would be proud of, -5°F (or -15°C), before injecting the freezing cold air into the laptop. The theory is that this keeps the computer’s CPU and GPU much cooler, enabling them to run cooler, and therefore at a higher clock speed with greater performance, for longer.

The cool-looking tech is using thermoelectric cooling, but instead of bonding the Peltier elements directly to the processors (which is a well-documented awful idea), Line’s team came up with a different approach — pre-cooling the air with a pair of little cooling towers, and blasting it into the laptop from there. The design relies on the most common design architecture for gaming laptops, the company tells me. The battery lives underneath the keyboard, and the laptop is lifted up on little feet for maximum air circulation, typically with two air-thirsty fans.

“Electronic components have recommended operating temperatures; the same goes for thermal paste on CPU/GPU, and most importantly the battery,” explains Nancy de Fays, co-founder at Line, explaining why blasting the laptop with sub-zero temperature air won’t harm it. “The Line Frzr does not freeze the entire laptop: it blasts sub-zero temperature air into the laptop air intake.