NP9150 heatsink cleaning

I was very happy to see the link to this video, as it answered a lot of maintenance & repair questions for me.

Obviously fan/heatsink cleaning is an important maintenance item for these laptops, and there are 2 to clean.

Do the fans easily remove for access to side of the heatsink facing the fan? Obviously this would be best for not disturbing thermal paste and reducing handling of the CPU/GPU.

If not, it looks like the CPU side could be easily cleaned without having to re-do the thermal paste every time, by simply releasing the CPU from the socket & leaving it pasted to the heatsink on removal.

This doesn't appear to be possible for the GPU side, so I'm hoping the fans are easily removed with the CPU/GPU in place.

 

I remember the last time I removed the GPU fan to clean, I unscrewed 4 or 5 screws, and lift it up, it's not too bad actually.

 

Sounds good, I've just run into laptops where the fan screws are only accessible from a location that requires dismantling the whole computer, or the plastic shrouds that help the fan air go through the heatsink prevent removing the fan without removing the heatsink.

You know, stupid consumer-level laptop design. lol I really don't charge enough for dealing with that crap.

But I'm elated to keep finding intelligent design characteristics on this laptop. Only thing I'm slightly disappointed in is the RAM under the keyboard, but that's just a matter of there only being so much space, and it's not like the keyboard removal looks to be much of a pain.

 

When my laptop arrived the first thing I did was removed the RAMs from the buttom panel slots and insert those RAMs into the RAM slots under the Keyboard. I should have told them to installed them into the internal RAM slots before shipping .