ASUS G752 series VT VY VZ VL VS VW disassembly teardown repaste guide

Tools needed

• Various size philips
• Prying tool / dead credit card
• Toothpick / regular tweezer
  
• Various size flathead
• Marker / masking tape
• I HIGHLY RECOMMEND LIQUID METAL THERMAL PASTE, SUCH AS CONDUCTONAUT OR LIQUID ULTRA
• Thin Electrical tape [recommend: Scotch super 33+]
  
• Thermal pad [varying size, estimate around 0.5mm, 1mm, or 1.5mm] OR easier method -> K5 Pro Thermal material
• Rubbing alcohol and cleaning material
• Patience

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Tip

• Label every screw position
• Label longer screws to distinguish position from one another
• Be slow and careful

1. Turn laptop over, take apart all SSD, RAM, HDD.

Don't get your filthy skin oil on the top of SSD or the thermal pad, stick the SSD to the thermal pad for safekeeping.

2. Take out all screws on bottom, you can remove the rubber shield by tweezer or toothpick

3. Remove ODD, this is held on by one screw.

3 Screws hidden below the ODD tray

4. Take off speaker bar and disconnect data cable

5. Take off keyboard, pry along the edges of top cover assembly

6. Disconnect speaker data cable and eDP screen cable.

7. Disconnect wifi cable and the white connector next to it. White cable is on left of card and black cable on right of card.

8. Take off screen by removing 6 middle screw and 2 outer ones.

9. Unscrew this one from the PCH, it is not necessary to take off the other screw.

Here is a look on the PCH thermal solution, it has thermal pad.

10. Disconnect power switch board

11. Take off screws off this usb board and wiggle it out

12. Take off fan screws.

13. Label and disconnect every single screw and cable connection on motherboard

sorry no pic on this one, pretty self-explanatory

14. Wiggle motherboard out, remove screws to access chip and repaste!

CPU / GPU CORE USES THERMAL PASTE
THE OTHER COMPONENT CAN USE K5 PRO OR THERMAL PADS
I don't think it is necessary to use thermal pad or K5 pro on the other components, they're fine as is and you can put it back together no worries.

Your heatsink shape will be different according to model.

As you see, the GPU VRM is not covered on my unit. That is the only component you need to use thermal pad or K5 Pro - ONLY IF THE FACTORY PASTE DOESN'T HAVE GOOD CONTACT, OTHERWISE LEAVE AS IS.

K5 Pro applied on VRM

Good pressure on VRM and K5 Pro

Put electrical tape around the silicon, MAKE SURE ELECTRICAL TAPE DOES NOT TOUCH THE TOP OF SILICON. This will protect your vital component from the liquid metal thermal paste.

Apply a blob of liquid metal, use the included qtip or spreader with circular motion to spread the liquid metal around. YOUR OBJECTIVE IS TO EVENLY "PAINT" THE SURFACE OF THE SILICON! Use gentle pressure!

Here are some misc parts that @triturbo will find interesting.

Fan anti-dust hole, not sure how this works.

The vapor chamber over the CPU.
CPU thermal solution is only 2 heatpipe, but on top is soldered the vapor chamber, it acts as a thermal "bridge". The CPU or GPU can offload heat to either side.

Dust hole, part of anti-dust feature on fans.

Speaker bar

The power button interface is very poorly designed!

Seems like a gap, can use tape to seal and prevent hot air flowback.

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ASUS G752 series VT VY VZ VL VS VW disassembly teardown repaste guide