🛠️ How to open ASUS ROG Strix G18 G815 (2025) - disassembly and upgrade options

Hello friends. Today we'll open the Asus ROGstrix G 182025. As always, you'll find everything about the laptop in our detailed text review on laptopmedia.com. From benchmark performance tests to screen quality, battery life, and much more. The link is below the video. Let's go. The laptop has a rear cover with a Q latch mechanism and two status markers. The first marker is here. Red means unlocked. To remove the cover, pull the slider, then push it to the right, and the red color should appear in this window as well. Done. The chassis includes a safety switch hidden here that prevents the laptop from powering on while the bottom panel is off. Here's a slow motion close-up of the process. The inner shielding cover holds 19 screws. We'll point them out one by one before taking it off. We start with the first screw at the top left corner. It and the one in the opposite corner are shorter. M2 5.5 mm. The remaining 17 screws are 10 mm. We use a Japanese industrial standard number one screwdriver. Here is the second short screw. Once again, here are the two short screws alongside the other 17. After removing all screws, our first task is to disconnect the ribbon cable that links this cover to the motherboard. ASUS recommends discharging the battery below 25% before opening the device. And we'll remove the battery as well. With a thin plastic tool, we start popping the cover clips. Done. The battery connector sits beneath the third fan. The third screw is shared by the fan shroud and the cover. We need to remove the other two screws to take out the fan. The battery is secured by four screws. That shared third screw is both for the battery and for the cover. Let's remove the fan screws. We disconnect the fan from the motherboard. Never pull by the wires. We lift the battery connector straight up, tugging slightly sideways so the red wires break contact first. We remove the remaining three screws holding the battery to the chassis. First one. Second one. This shared screw secures both battery and cover. And finally, the fourth. The battery is a 90Wh lithium ion unit. You can check the result of our battery life test on laptopmedia.com. The link is below the video. Don't forget to visit and see our top 100 laptops with the best battery life ranking. Here's how the Asus Ragstrix G182025 looks on the inside and a 360° view. All exhaust vents now sit behind the hinge while the sides, bottom, and even keyboard deck pull fresh air into the trian vapor chamber system using conduct extreme liquid metal on CPU and GPU. We peel back the SSD's protective sticker. Instead of a screw, there's a locking tab. We lift the drive to about 15° and pull it from the slot. The thermal pad stayed underneath. There are two PCI Express 4 NVME slots. Here are both RAM slots. They are DDR5SO DIM and support up to 64 GB officially and 96 GB or more with higher density sticks. Here is the Wi-Fi card. It's a Wi-Fi 7 2x2 module for multi- gigabit wireless speeds. It can be removed by undoing this screw, but we'll leave it in place. Here's a bonus for you. Some RGB beauty.