MSI GE70 Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the MSI GE70 to remove the battery, hard drive, SSD, optical drive, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.

Remove the five screws securing the service cover. Insert a screwdriver or pry tool into the gap of the service cover and carefully pry it open.

Under the service cover, you can access the hard drive, SSD, memory, heat sink, CPU fan, and wireless card.

The MSI GE70 comes with two 4GB memory modules, totaling 8GB of dual-channel memory.
Use your fingernails to gently separate the clips on both sides, and the memory module can be easily removed.

Two Kingston 4GB RAM modules

Remove the two screws securing the hard drive module, slide it to the right, and you can remove it.

The laptop features a Western Digital 1TB hard drive.

The GE70 has two SSDs. This is the first SSD, a SanDisk 64GB SSD.

Remove the screw securing the SSD and carefully remove it from the mSATA slot.

The laptop comes with two SanDisk 64GB SSDs. The models of the two SSDs are exactly the same.

Pull out the DVD drive.

The MSI GE70 comes with a Samsung SN-208 DVD burner.

Remove the screw securing the wireless card and disconnect the two antenna cables. You can remove the wireless card.

AzureWave wireless card

Remove the eight screws securing the heat sink.

Remove the three screws securing the cooling fan and disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard. You can remove the heat sink and cooling fan.

The fan of the MSI GE70 is manufactured by NSTECH, and its model number is PAAD06015SL.

Remove the heat sink

The heat sink of the MSI GE70 consists of three heat pipes, but the diameter of these heat pipes seems to be small.

Fortunately, its processor is not soldered to the motherboard, but is replaceable, so you can upgrade the processor.

MSI GE70 internal parts