Tutorial: How to Upgrade the SSD and RAM of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is one of the most interesting Gaming-Laptops out now. In this video we will show you how to upgrade its RAM and SSD.

All you need is a screw driver, DDR4-RAM with a clock speed of 3200Mhz in the SO-DIMM form factor and a PCIe-SSD.

►ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Driver Download (only necessary if you switched out the PCIe-SSD):

►►Technical Data:
► 35cm (14“) IPS-Display Full HD(1920x1080px), 120Hz Refresh Rate and 100%-sRGB
► AMD® Ryzen™ 7 4800HS CPU, 8x 1,60 GHz
► 16 GB DDR4 3200MHz Dual-Channel RAM
► Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6 VRAM
► 512 GB M.2 PCIe SSD
► Connectivity: 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with DisplayPort™ 1.4 and Power Delivery, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 1 x HDMI 2.0b, 1 x 3.5mm Headphone Jack
► Battery: Li-Ion-Battery, 4 Cells, 76 Wh
► Weight: 1,6 Kg
► Windows 10 Home 64 Bit

[igiveupfine]

ok, i REALLY liked how you listed out the technical data in the video notes. i have never seen that in any other laptop maintenance video. thank you very much for that. you got a sub out of me just for that.

[ryleaquino]

He looks like the professor from money heist

[Timzart]

The four screws on the lip of the laptop take shorter screws, except one of these corner screws (lower right as laptop is on its back) is longer than the other and it says in the manual that it is a "pop up screw" and doesn't get removed after it is loosened. I wasn't reading the manual so I was mystified by this. From reading comments, I made sure to have a new screwdriver so that if any screws were hard to get out, they wouldn't strip. So I get to the one really stuck screw and by putting moderate pressure directly down, I used pliers to turn the barrel of the screwdriver and that got it out.

Everything else went fine. I paid $42 for 8G of Crucial (Micron) RAM, whereas I noticed some of these laptop manufacturers will charge as much as $90 for them to double the RAM on a laptop that comes with only 8G.

[SectorNn]

Thanks for sharing, this requires less effort than I had anticipated.

[bryanp.]

Man It would be very nice to ADD ON storage but it is what it is

[HuyNguyen-zeeb]

Thank you mate. Clear information. Keep up your works :D

[checa]

Thank you for the tutorial, I didn't remember that I had only one slot to upgrade the ram!

[marcomeraz]

Can you upload a video showing how to disassemble the display?

[thegenxgamerguy]

Do you have any recommendations regarding the thermal pad for the SSD?

[TebTengri]

What amount of space and what besides that plastic shield are between the SSD and the case? I ordered a 970 EVO Plus and the controller gets amazingly hot. I'd like to put a thermal pad so it dumps heat into the metal case (I can just told the plastic shield back with tape). Is there anything preventing this?

[rxbemtz]

very good video bro, I only have one question, do not unplug the battery to insert the new RAM memory?
thank you very much

[driftingchimera]

What size/type screwdriver did you use to remove the screw for the SSD? The screws I have don't exactly fit the screw for my laptop so I have to look for it now :(((
Edit: my laptop is also ASUS but it's the GL503VD model

[internetpolice]

Thanks, I love when people make very clear and concise tutorial videos without over complicating things. Great job. On another note, I love this laptop, however I think that separating the RAM like this is bad practice in general on ASUS's part. I'm sure they had their reasons for doing it though.

[themannynguyen]

When we upgrade the SSD, and put a new one in... do we need to also add in new thermal pads for the new SSD during the installation?

[markschneider]

Thanks, I misunderstood a review I read, I thought I had to remove the MB to get at the ram slot. Now you may make a vid upgrading (changing) to Linux on this machine. I have the new 2021 model, very nice computer.

[yousefr]

what is better for rendering, i keep the 16gb dual channel or replace the 8gb with a 32gb one ?

[bakutn]

What is the ram density? X8 or x16? Couldn’t read the label and you didn’t flip the ram over so I couldn’t tell if there were more chips on the backside. Thanks!

[NatMG]

Is it possible to install the "Crucial P2"?
The interface is "PCIe NVMe 3.1 x4"

[DB_Oracle]

Regarding Dual Channel, you can mix RAM of 2 different sizes and they will still operate in Dual Channel. It just that lower part of higher ram will work in dual channel.
So if you get 8+16GB = 24GB, the 8GB will work in dual channel and rest 8GB of 16GB will work in single channel.
And I suggest, 24 GB (8+16) is definitely better than 16 (8+8).

[mohammedel-asfer]

What ram model did u use?
Have you been able to run the whole 40 gb at 3200 hz speed?