Asus Z99Le surgery

Today decided to look inside my old laptop. I wanted to remove all useless parts and see what can I upgrade there. Unfortunately, as I understand I can use only 2Gb RAM, and cannot upgrade to 4Gb. But I think i can put SSD inside it. There is SATA2 (SATA 3Gb/s, as it is written on my HDD), I can plug it there, or I can use micro PCI Express port. I wonder if BIOS will be able to use them. Also quite interesting if I can upgrade CPU?..

Lets see what's inside.

Top side

 

1 - DVD/ROM. Removed. It was broken anyway,

2 - video connection ports,

3 - WiFi wires :) these go from WiFi card (5) to screen. It looks like screen is an antenna also,

4 - battery,

5 - micro PCI Express WiFi card. It is connected to monitor. I think it can be replaced with SSD,

6 - 160Gb HDD. It says SATA 3Gb/s. As I understand this is SATA2, and again, this is another place where I can try to plug SSD disk.

Bottom side

1 - DVD ROM again,

2 - 2xDDR2 1Gb RAM. As i mentioned, maximum size of RAM which I can install is 2Gb, even there are RAM cells 2Gb each, and there are 2 ports,

3 - processor. I believe it is possible to replace it, I wonder if it is possible to upgrade it somehow,

4 - cooling system. It's much bigger then processor itself,

5 - battery,

6 - plugged 160Gb HDD, SATA2 (?),

7 - plugged mini PCI Express WiFi card.

Screws :)