Upgrading an HP ProBook 6570b

[NonSequitur777]

@Paul_Tikkanen,

You mentioned, quote: "I have yet to have a Wi-Fi adapter achieve the same download speed as its advertised max throughput."

Which motivated me to seek and apply some further Wi-Fi optimizations -and I'll be d@mned (figuratively speaking) -I got the Intel 7260HMW card to work at its top (866/866) theoretical speeds:

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Glad you got everything maxed out.

Yes, I have known about using the W8.1 JMicron SD card driver since W10 came out in 2015.

Sorry the XP manual install for the 3D driveguard didn't work for you.

[NonSequitur777 · Accepted solution]

Dear Forum,

Last but not least, I replaced the Internal 8x SATA Super-Multi CD/DVD±RW Rewritable Drive (p/n: 690408-001 "SPS-ODD DVD SMDL 12.7mm B SERIES") with a secondary drive caddy adapter bay like what this eBay purchase option shows.  I installed a 500GB Samsung 850 EVO as a secondary drive.

Ran a Userbenchmark test: HP ProBook 6570b Performance Results - UserBenchmark, which shows that the Intel Core i7-3632QM is running very well ("Performing way above expectations (89th percentile"), and both drives, the 500GB Samsung 870 EVO ("87.7% Excellent") and the just installed 500GB Samsung 850 EVO ("91.2% Outstanding") is also running well.  In the Userbenchmark performance hierarchy, this laptop should easily be ranked in the top 10 for the HP ProBook 6570b laptops, but for reasons unknown it does not.  Not losing sleep over it. 

The extended 9-cell battery is giving this laptop about 5 hours of uninterrupted video playback, probably more with just browsing and office work.

And this concludes this particular upgrade project -worked out well indeed!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777