In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the MSI GT70 to remove the bottom case, hard drive, keyboard, palm rest, SSD, LCD screen, LCD hinge, speakers, cooling fan, graphics card, and motherboard.
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Specification i7-4800MQ GTX 880M 8G GDDR5 memory 16G memory (8G X2) 256G SSD (128G x2 mSATA RAID0) 1T 7200rpm HDD
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Unlock and remove the battery.
The laptop comes with a 9-cell battery, a capacity of 7800mAh, 87Wh.
Remove the screws securing the service cover. You can get access to the hard drive, SSD, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Remove two screws securing the hard drive module. Lift it up and remove the hard drive. MSI GT70 features a 1TB HGST hard drive.
Two spare RAM slots, GT70 has four memory slots, and other two RAM slots under the keyboard.
It features two Toshiba 128 GB SSDs.
MSI called it the Super RAID. It uses the Intel chipset and comes with RAID function, two mSATA SSDs composed of RAID0.
There is a spare slot, and you can install the third SSD.
Remove two screws securing the SSD and remove it. Toshiba mSATA SSD, using Marvell TC58NC5HA9GST chip.
Remove three screws securing the cooling fan.
Remove the cooling fan.
Remove the heat sink. The heat sink is very large.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX880M Graphics card
Remove one screw securing the graphics card and takes it away.
The card integrated 8GB GDDR5 Graphics memory.
Intel® Core™ i7-4800MQ processor (6M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz)
Remove all screws.
Remove two screws securing the LCD bezel.
Pry up and remove the LCD bezel.
Remove the shortcuts panel. Remove five screws securing the keyboard. Unlock and pull out the keyboard cable.
The keyboard has been removed.
Wireless card
Remove all screws securing the LCD hinge.
Remove the LCD screen module.
Microphone and camera
LCD hinge
MSI GT70 comes with a Chimei N173HGE-L11 screen.
Pry up and remove the palm rest.
Two Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600MHz memory
Atheros 802.11n Killer wireless card does not support 802.11AC.
Audio I / O port
Motherboard
The back of the motherboard
Bottom case
Dynaudio speakers
For more guides, check out the MSI GT70 device page.