In this article, I will take apart an HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 laptop. I will remove the bottom case, battery, SSD, HDD caddy, RAM, Wi-Fi card, heatsink, cooling fan, speaker and motherboard. According to the article, you can upgrade the M.2 SSD, and 2.5-inch hard drive, It is also very helpful for replacing the keyboard.
This guide will work for many different models of HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0007ca, 15-dk0010nr, 15-dk0018ca, 15-dk0020nr, 15-dk0030nr, 15-dk0041nr, 15-dk0042nr, 15-dk0045cl, 15-dk0046nr, 15-dk0051wm, 15-dk0055nr, 15-dk0055wm, 15-dk0056nr, 15-dk0067cl, 15-dk0068wm and probably some other models too.
According to the official maintenance guide, this article should fit all HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 series laptops.
The HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 features a new ID design that is as thin as 23.4mm compared to the previous generation. The weight of the Gaming laptop is only 2.25kg, which is another step in portability. The black appearance and the green HP LOGO is very deep and noble.
It uses a 15.6-inch full-HD IPS screen, which makes the body look much smarter than the bulky traditional game laptop. The narrow borders bring a broader view and immerse the gaming experience. What is even more amazing is the screen refresh rate. The 144Hz e-sports screen makes the game no longer shadow, and the picture quality is more perfect. The high color gamut of 72% is enough to make the picture stunning and realistic.
The green trimming keys, combined with the switchable LED backlight, is deeper and more mysterious in a dim game environment. The WASD keys can be recognized at a glance, and the game moves quickly. The touch of the key is very comfortable. The feedback is moderate.
On the right is the numeric keypad area. You can define shortcuts in the game, or you can bring high efficiency, and good enough for the office.
The power button is located in the upper left corner of the palm rest. It also has an LED effect to increase recognition.
Located at the back of the palm rest is a row of the diamond-shaped grille with a three-dimensional sense. This is not only the decoration area but also the place of the speaker system. Two large-sized speakers have B&O-certified sound effects, and the sound is loud and powerful. The bass effect is even more shocking, no need for professional headphones, you can listen to the sound in the game through the speakers.
The HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 has very rich ports. The left side of the fuselage includes an SD card reader, Type-C (supports video output), RJ45 jack, USB 3.1 Gen1, and standard HDMI port.
The right side of the fuselage includes the DC jack, two USB 3.1 Gen1 ports, and a headphone port. So regardless of the quantity, or performance, these ports can adapt to the latest peripheral equipment, and will not fall behind even in the next few years.
Now let’s look at the back of the fuselage, the middle part is the LCD hinges, and the two sides are the heat-dissipating outlets. The laptop has improved the air duct and the heat-dissipating module. The built-in dual fan increases the size by 22. increased the air flux of 85, increased the effective air outlet area by 1722, combined with the design of the four heat pipes and the adjustment of the position of the foot pads, which brings stronger heat dissipation performance.
The bottom of the laptop has a large area of the entrance grille, and four footpads, which not only play a role in anti-slip but also lift the fuselage to facilitate air circulation. In addition, it can be seen that the beveled design on the side of the fuselage makes the body look thinner in appearance, but only 23.4mm in thickness and 2.25kg in weight, it is very portable for the game book.
Removing the rear cover is very simple. It is fixed by 8 screws, but you need to be reminded that you must first shut down the laptop before starting to remove the screw. After opening the back cover, please disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard first. Second, the screw length specifications of each part are different, pay attention to order them in order to avoid confusion. Third, the cable port position must be kept in mind when disconnecting the cable. Fourth, when installing, after confirming that the components are intact and intact, the battery is finally connected.
After removing the rear cover, the internal parts are displayed in front of you. The first thing you can feel is that all the parts are neatly arranged and the layout is reasonable. The key is that there are not too long and bare cables, and the heat dissipation system and battery occupy most of the internal space, the blue motherboard is also HP’s iconic color scheme.
Next, we will disassemble the parts one by one, and look at the appearance and parameters in detail. I believe that you will feel the super performance of this laptop, which is inseparable from the design and materials.
The HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 comes with a 3-cell lithium battery with a rated capacity of 52.5Wh. It can be last for 4-6 hours of battery life. If it is mainly used for playing games, of course, it is connected to the power supply to ensure the strongest performance.
The HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 comes with an M.2 PCIe 512GB SSD and is also equipped with a protective cover for heat dissipation. I would like to say a few more, HP’s many laptops are very secure in terms of security, such as the protection of the hard disk, the protection of the ports, etc., such as in earthquake resistance, anti-drop, dust, anti-static, etc. It’s pretty good. So in this laptop, we can also see that many parts have very good security in the details.
The M.2 SSD has a capacity of 512GB; it supports NVMe protocol and comes from Samsung PM981, so the performance in terms of reading and writing speed is quite good.
If you think that the capacity of the SSD is still not enough, it does not matter. There is a 2.5-inch HDD reserved bay, the most intimate is to reserve the HDD caddy and HDD cable.
This notebook comes with an 8GB memory and has an expandable memory slot so you can add another 8GB or 16GB memory.
From the picture, we can see that this is an 8GB DDR4 2666 high-frequency memory from Samsung. Its performance will never let you down.
This notebook is equipped with an Intel 9560NGW wireless network card, it supports 2.4GHz / 5GHz dual-band, the maximum transmission speed of 1.73Gbps, and integrated Bluetooth version 5.0, is currently a relatively high-end wireless network card.
Next we will remove its cooling system, which uses four copper tubes, dual fans, it is very large, and almost occupies one-half of the space, as we said before, this generation of notebooks had made great optimization in heat dissipation, such as increasing fan size, effectively improving air flow and so on.
This heatsink has 4 copper tubes; the length to the fan is relatively short, which is a design that is advantageous for heat dissipation.
At this point, only the motherboard, the touchpad, and the palm rest are left. The overall appearance of the motherboard is also unobstructed, including the processor and graphics card, as well as the surrounding memory particles and power supply system.
I don’t know if you noticed it. We haven’t seen the speaker yet. It’s right, just near the LCD hinges, that is, the rear of the palmrest, under the diamond-shaped three-dimensional grid, is the speaker system.
These two speakers are big enough, or in a notebook, it is rare to see such a large size or a round speaker. It is no wonder that during the experience, you can feel a lot of volumes and low-powered sound. The speakers are certified by Danish B&O Audio.
Wipe off the thermal grease on the graphics card and processor to take a closer look. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti Max-Q graphics card, which uses 12nm technology, based on Turing architecture, has 6GB GDDR6 memory. The biggest feature is that the performance can be used at the same time and the power consumption is lower, so the need for heat dissipation is relatively low.
The HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 is powered by the Intel 9 Gen Core i5-9300H quad-core processor. The processor is based on Coffee Lake architecture, 14nm, 2.4GHz, the highest Turbo 4.1GHz, 8MB L3 cache, TDP45W, dual-channel DDR4-2666MHz memory. In fact, this i5-9300H processor is enough for most people’s needs.
Let’s take a closer look at the overall picture of the motherboard. The integration is very high, so the current motherboard looks small.
In fact, for a game laptop, HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0000 integration is good enough, the layout is very reasonable, so it is easy to disassemble, whether it is later upgraded or maintenance, most of them can be done by themselves.
Always be the first to know the latest news, follow MyFixGuide on Google News.