Yeah, I always tear down any laptop I get to put Arctic Silver on the CPU/GPU to make them run cooler.

Ifixit.com is the site I used to pull mine apart... and since yours is the same as mine, I bookmarked the link -


Follow that, and be sure to sort the screws either by size or by how you pulled them out. I used a old egg carton to sort mine out.

And be careful removing the logic board... the DVI port gets caught on the case and pulling too hard could possibly snap or crack the board. If you've been in laptops before, it'll be cake.