g502vs upgrades

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Hello !

I have some questions concerning my laptop which I bought almost one year ago, and I can't find anywhere the answers :

- Thanks to speccy/aida64, I determined that my m.2 ssd was a 256go sandisk, and I'd like to know if my mb is compatible with a nvme or pcie ssd ?
- I only have one 8 go ram stick, would you advice me to buy another one to give me more room (I'm a messy user who loves to open 30 chrome tabs at once, plus some random softwares) and benefit from dual channel, or get rid of this one and buy a 16 go stick to give me the possibility to buy another one later and max the ram out ?
- I saw somewhere that the network card installed is removable, would it be worth it to change for a Killer one ?
- When I first RMA'ed it for a faulty keyboard (sticky spacebar, yay !), it came back with a new kb/motherboard and now it overheat seriously (aida64 shows up to 100 degrees (celcius) after a few minutes), I fear that they misplaced the thermal paste, I still have one year of warranty but I feel like doing the work myself, would you recommend me to use some arctic silver 5 or maybe there's a better thermal silver compound around ? (for both CPU and GPU) Also, which pads for those remaining chips ? Arctic brand aswell ?
- The display on this one is a LG Philips LP156WF6-SPB6, which is rated for 60 hz (g-sync), I can't seem to overclock the refresh rate to anything more than 65 hertz, I saw on many thread that most of rog laptops can go up to 80-100 pretty stable, is there any issue I'm not aware of or it's simply this display that can't be overclocked (if it's the right word) ?
- Concerning the well known issue of the computer drawing more power than the power brick can deliver, is there any other one around I can buy which would deliver like 240 watts or something ? To avoid the battery wear.

Thanks for taking a look at my thread. I hope someone went throught the same questions/problems and is able to answer me !

Have a nice day/evenning !

EDIT : I forgot to ask, as this laptop seems to push air from the back, is there any cooling pad (with some usb ports would be a plus) avalaible that could help it ? With a repaste, some undervolting and the pad, I'd love to achieve some cool temps !
 
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