Inside Acer Predator Triton 500 – disassembly and upgrade options

Very recently, Acer announced its new plans for the near future. However, before that, we showed you the Predator Triton 500, which is thin, light and a very capable gaming laptop. Additionally, it is perhaps the most simple looking Predator laptop on the market. However, similarly to its direct competitor – the MSI GS65 Stealth it has one major disadvantage – it is a nightmare getting inside. Especially if you don’t have any experience.

Check out all Acer Predator Triton 500 prices and configurations in our Specs System or read more in our In-depth Review.


1. Remove the bottom plate

First, we start casually with 10 Torx-head screws. Then we have to pry the bottom panel up and we can throw it away. Now, upon you there will be a pretty confusing view and at first, it looks like there is nothing much to do. Don’t let ’em fool you, though. Everything is there – it is just hidden. After we’ve removed the black protective cloth from the bottom of the motherboard, we can start unscrewing the more conventional Phillips-head screws.


2. Battery

But first, let’s start with the battery. There are only two Phillips-head screws holding it in place, and after you remove them, you just need to slide the battery a little upwards, and it goes out by itself. By the way, don’t forget to unplug it from the motherboard first so you don’t apply extra strain to the fragile cables. Here, the battery pack has an 84Wh capacity – a pretty hefty one.


3. Take out the motherboard

Now it’s finally time for the motherboard. First, make sure you’ve unplugged every connector from below and around the board itself. Additionally, you’ll need to remove the display connector as well. After that, unscrew the single screw, holding the Wi-Fi adapter and remove it as well. Now there are six more screws left – you are going to find them easily, just keep in mind that two of them are hidden beneath the display cable (around the fans). After you’ve overcome all of the obstacles placed by Acer, you are worthy of placing your look into the internals of the Acer Predator Triton 500.

And here’s how it looks without the cooling system (Thanks, Matty!):


4. Memory and storage

As you can see from the image below, there is not much free space on this motherboard. However, Acer has still put two RAM DIMMs and two M.2 NVMe slots that support RAID 0 connectivity.


5. Cooling system

Acer has put a road twist of heat pipes on its device. As of the count – there are five of them. One is designated to the VRMs and on is meant for the Graphics memory. Then there is one common for the CPU and the GPU, which covers two heatsinks. Additionally, there are one more each, for the processor and the graphics chip, bending around the designated fan. We should note that the single fan (the bigger one) is made out of metal or as they call it – Aeroblade 3D technology. Additionally, there is a software boost to the fan speeds, activated by pressing the “Turbo” key above the keyboard.

Check out all Acer Predator Triton 500 prices and configurations in our Specs System or read more in our In-depth Review.

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Benny Nigno
Benny Nigno
4 years ago

This type support ssd nvme up to 512×2 (1tb) ???

Muhamamd Ismail
Muhamamd Ismail
4 years ago
Reply to  Benny Nigno

I have installed 2 SSD on mine 1. pre installed 512GB 2. 1TB

Kevin Tran Nguyen
Kevin Tran Nguyen
4 years ago

How do u know which one is the boot os

Gael Cruz
Gael Cruz
4 years ago

Wheres the os from those ssd?

Matty
Matty
3 years ago

Hey, i dissembled mine, except i took the heat sink off aswell. if you want to use my photo you can to update the guide!
here:comment image

or here :comment image

Simeon Nikolov
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  Matty

Thank you very much 🙂

Augustus Ng
Augustus Ng
3 years ago
Reply to  Matty

Hi, may i know how do you guy remove the heatsink from the motherboard as i am trying to do repasting for my laptop. Thanks

alex
alex
3 years ago
Reply to  Matty

Hi, when you repasted could you tell me if you used pads or pasted on the chips where the blue paste originally was. Also if you padded what sized pads did you use for the little chips and then the vram chips
Thanks

Niel
Niel
3 years ago
Reply to  Matty

can I know if you replaced the thermal pads and if you do can you provide the right thickness. Thank you in advance!

Dino Spaggotto
Dino Spaggotto
3 years ago

In other words, it’s not upgradable… I can expect that memory is 2x8gb but the harddrive? It’s ridiculous that it’s also split in halfs… You aren’t uppgrading you’re replacing the whole thing, it’s not the same! And it’s much expensive that way!

Leonardo
Leonardo
3 years ago
Reply to  Dino Spaggotto

The newer versions have 1 512 ssd

Quang
Quang
3 years ago

I want to upgrade double ssd raid 0, two Sabrent 8TB ok? Thanks a lot!
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Rocket-Internal-Performance-SB-RKTQ-8TB/dp/B08957PT2K

Anna Jacobs
Anna Jacobs
2 years ago

What motherboard is this?