Hey Guys,
Im not sure if any of you even care for this anymore but there were a few people who asked for me to make a video about how to switch the thermal paste on the Retina MacBook Pro. So I made a video tutorial here, its two parts, disassembly and re assembly.
Please excuse any shakiness in my hands or voice this was my first video tutorial.
And for the step by step:
Step One:
Get a hold of a Pentalobe #5 Screw driver head, and a Torx #5. The Pentalobe head is for the exterior screws, the Torx is for the interior.
Step Two:
Take out the 10 screws in the bottom of the MacBook, be very careful with your Pentalobe screw driver to not strip the screws.
Step Three
Undo the Battery Connector, which is right under the "Warning" label.
Step Four
Remove the Four screws surrounding the CPU, the Four surrounding the GPU, the one silver screw to the CPU side, and the one silver screw to the GPU side under the rubber cap.
Step Five
Remove the two rubber covers on either heatsink fan grate.
Step Six
Gently remove the heatsink from the unit and clean with a paper towl or alcohol swab.
Step Seven
Put on your choice of thermal paste, only a dab on either Processor.
Step Eight
Put the Heatsink back on, put in the 10 screws you removed along with the rubber cap.
Step Nine
Re attach the rubber covers to either side of the heatsink fan grates.
Step Ten
Re attach the battery plug
Step Eleven
Put the 10 screws back into the bottom plate
Im not sure if any of you even care for this anymore but there were a few people who asked for me to make a video about how to switch the thermal paste on the Retina MacBook Pro. So I made a video tutorial here, its two parts, disassembly and re assembly.
Please excuse any shakiness in my hands or voice this was my first video tutorial.
And for the step by step:
Step One:
Get a hold of a Pentalobe #5 Screw driver head, and a Torx #5. The Pentalobe head is for the exterior screws, the Torx is for the interior.
Step Two:
Take out the 10 screws in the bottom of the MacBook, be very careful with your Pentalobe screw driver to not strip the screws.
Step Three
Undo the Battery Connector, which is right under the "Warning" label.
Step Four
Remove the Four screws surrounding the CPU, the Four surrounding the GPU, the one silver screw to the CPU side, and the one silver screw to the GPU side under the rubber cap.




Step Five
Remove the two rubber covers on either heatsink fan grate.
Step Six
Gently remove the heatsink from the unit and clean with a paper towl or alcohol swab.
Step Seven
Put on your choice of thermal paste, only a dab on either Processor.
Step Eight
Put the Heatsink back on, put in the 10 screws you removed along with the rubber cap.
Step Nine
Re attach the rubber covers to either side of the heatsink fan grates.
Step Ten
Re attach the battery plug
Step Eleven
Put the 10 screws back into the bottom plate
