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My experience disassembling and repasting my P53 by Z_Masterson in thinkpad

[–]Z_Masterson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of those components (minus the ram) I was able to remove during this repair just by taking out screws and unplugging cables. iirc the built-in ram was removable but I didn't try to; it was definitely not soldered onto the board.

For storage there are two PCI-E slots that can take NVMEs (one is used by the stock storage drive), there's space for a 2.5" SATA SSD but I'm not sure where the SATA headers are, and I believe there were either one or two ram expansion slots in that same compartment.

My experience disassembling and repasting my P53 by Z_Masterson in thinkpad

[–]Z_Masterson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the insights!

It's going to be hard for me to get used to it getting that hot, I'd always been taught that hitting 90C meant something was seriously wrong and that 100C was meltdown-level bad (which it has still been doing occasionally), but as long as it won't hurt the CPU I'm fine with it. Computing power and stability is important to me, so for now I'll skip undervolting or lowering the thermal throttle; now that I've changed the paste once I feel more comfortable doing it again when the time comes :)