How to Disassemble Teardown The Asus RT--AC5300 GT-AC5300 Gigabit Router For Repairs 

Now this is an excellent instructional video. No nonsense...no unnecessary blah blah blah..to the point and explains everything along the way. Some of you folks on RU-vid that think they are making instructional videos should watch this and learn HOW to make instructional videos. Thank you.

What a great video thumbs up man you explained it throughly. Helped out a lot

@Ano Nymos actually.... There's a small white dot sticker on one of those housing Philip screws, says "warrenty seal" written on it. -DAMN. I already destroyed mine with Philip screw like in video....shoulda token a picture of it! -removed sheilds throw trash(stupid insulation traps heat from escaping to heatsinks!) -stock heatsinks= good (takes 1.5mm copper plate to feel same amount freezing from finger tips-heat sucked away....smaller sizes felt warmer compared to stock heat sinks)

Thanks! Mine got a switch that wouldn't stay clicked 'on'. I disassembled and put some deoxit inside the switch and seems much better now.

Thank you for this. Helped me out a lot!

Excelente, muito obrigado pelo tutorial, deixei meu like. Abraços do Brasil

All of your questions answered about chips and antenna locations: web.archive.org/web/20190529193154/read01.com/BJ58JK.html Note that the 2.4GHz antennas are the four front-most antennas (front being where all of the status LEDs are) which also share the 5GHz band. The other four antennas are strictly for 5GHz only.

why do the areas in the heat sink look wet. Where is that coming from and why? Are the pads "melting"

U can write the gamelist support ps4 of last update? Thanks

Nice work keep doing that

What thickness are the thermal pads?

Thanks for the video. Any idea which are the two 5GHz bands.

After 22 Month (or before, it is a used device from ebay) sometimes the wifi from GT-AC5300 is dissappeared or authentification error etc.. A thermal problem? New device has arrived. But there is a ASUS warranty of 3 years. I can not open the device to pimp the cooling. Is there a security paint (at the screws...) etc.? I think there is no space for fans inside (?). My idea, 4x 80mm fan (1cm thicknes) on the 16x16cm field on the top of the device. Sucking the air through the "holes" (gaps at the side of the Slots, not a perfect design). It seems, the wifi chips are on the bottom side (antenne cables are connected at the bottom side). That's a pitty. And with fans at the bottom side, it is uncomfortable. It seems, at 3 sides of the board are space to the case. We could close the ventilation slots at the side and the whole area at the bottom without cooling elements (2) with tape or similar. Then the air flow that is sucked out of the top of the unit is forced along the heat sinks under the unit. 5V fans (~$2 from China) could powered by a USB port. But in future, I would connect a HDD/SSD and perhaps a printer. I coud use a cheap, small and passive USB-Hub. Also USB2 (for the fans and Printer, USB2 is OK). Strange: I find on Ebay no USB plugs for soldering. Something like that should be for a dollar (including shipping) to buy. I'll see if I find a broken USB cable from a smartphone or tablet. Often the small connector for the device side is defective.

And you a chucky fan too!! Bruh did we just become Best friends !!

hi is there any way to add a few more holes on the top pice of the router so mor heat can escape

Anyone know the quality of those antennas? Like would it be helpful to replace them with 18 dBi aftermarket antennas?

My power button is broken, can I fix it myself? please advise (GT-AC5300)

I putted Thermal pad from Grizzly company 1mm and its cold and quiet

Is the oil traces normal?

Those are some gaudy looking thermal pads, Id def replace them with something better

Thanks for showing the details of the board, obviously it looks as if there was some unnecessary components there as the mixture of little indian and big indian architecture of chips could have all had the same convention and we could have eliminated additional shift registrars thus reducing delays and extra computation and heat... Ok who am I kidding, why the heck is he showing us the board? I have no clue what I’m looking at.