Title about sums it up, I left my laptop on the roof of the work truck and it went airbourne at 55mph+ hit a bridge and SURVIVED? Time to dig into this hurt ASUS and bring it back to life.
Links below:
Hard Drive enclosure a.co/d/08XeJGGi
Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme a.co/d/04OeIq40
Thermal Pads a.co/d/08H7MR4L
Laptop GU603HE-211.ZM16
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You've made it this far. I had to replace the heatsink because it was bent due to the impact with the bridge and was not making full contact with the CPU or GPU. I had attempted to straighten out the heatsink prior, but in doing so it had cracked in multiple locations, effectively rendering the vapor chamber part of the heat tubes useless. New heatsink installed, however overheating continued as I had installed a couple of thermal pads on components that did not need thermal pads, and caused the heatsink to not sit flush on either the CPU or GPU. After correcting this issue, I ended up using some leftover conductonaut extreme that I had laying around and proceeded to fully overclock and stress test the system with outstanding thermal results.