Inside Acer Aspire 5 (A517-52G) – disassembly and upgrade options

To get inside this notebook, you need to undo 14 Phillips-head screws. After that, pry the bottom panel, starting from the front, and remove it from the chassis.

2. Battery

Here, we see a 54.6Wh battery pack. It lasted us more than 10 hours of Web browsing or about 7 hours of video playback. The first thing you need to do is to unplug the battery connector from the motherboard. Then, undo the two Phillips-head screws holding it to the body, and take it away.

3. Memory and storage

This notebook comes with 4GB of memory soldered to the motherboard. You also get a single SODIMM slot for up to 16GB expansion. Storage-wise, there is one M.2 PCIe x4 slot. In addition to that, you get a 2.5-inch SATA drive bay with mounting accessories included.

4. Cooling system

On the other hand, the cooling looks a bit underwhelming with only a single heat pipe dealing with both the CPU and the GPU. Thankfully, the graphics memory sports a metal heat spreader.

Check out all Acer Aspire 5 (A517-52G) prices and configurations in our Specs System or read more in our In-Depth review.

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