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OMEN by HP Obelisk Desktop 875-0034

Here are the specs for my computer (my question will be at the end)

Serial # 2Mo946****  
Product # 4NN43AA#ABA
Omen by HP Obelisk Desktop PC - 875-0034 ATX mini case Height 43.31 cm (17.05inches), Width 16.51 cm (6.5 inches) Depth 35.71 cm (14.06inches)
Motherboard: Version 00 Edoras SSid:84FD   socket 1151
Chipset: H370
500 Watt power supply
Ram maxCapacity 33554432
Dual channel (1 DIMM per channel) memory architecture
Two DDR4 UDIMM (288-pin) sockets
Supports PC4-21300 (DDR4-2666)
Supports 2  8GB or 16GB DDR4 UDIMMs (2-16GB DDR4 2666 DIMS installed 32GB total)
Supports up to 4 GB on 32-bit systems
 
PCIE x 4 31GB/S Supports up to 32 GB (unbuffered) on 64-bit computers.
Ram PC4-21300 MB/s type DDR 2666
Supports 2 DDR4 UDIMM 8 or 16 GB 288 pin sockets (2-16GB DDR4 2666 UDIMS installed)
 
CPU (Installed Intel Core i7-9700 3 GHz Base frequency, 4.7 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, Octa core (Coffee Lake-R)
Other processors that will fit Obelisk 875-0034: 
Engineering Sample QS Intel i9-9900 (not approved by Intel but will work)(May not have full funtionality as full version)
Intel Core i9-9900 3.1 GHz Base frequency, 5 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 16 MB cache, Octa core (Coffee Lake-R)
65 W
Intel Core i7-9700 3 GHz Base frequency, 4.7 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, Octa core (Coffee Lake-R)
65 W
Intel Core i7-9700F 3 GHz Base frequency, 4.7 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, Octa core (Coffee Lake-R)
Turbo boost technology is built into the chip and requires NO software.
 
Expansion slots:
One PCIe x16 socket (for discrete graphic card)(Installed NVidia GeForce GTX 1660-Ti Dedicated Video Memory 6144MB)
One M.2 socket 1, key A socket 1/key A type M.2 slot and it is occupied by your Wifi/BT card 
    (Key A, Notched Pins 8–15, Provided Interfaces 2 of PCIe ×1, USB 2.0, I2C and DP ×4) Near field communications, Wi-Gig (some say A+E key?)
One M.2 socket 3, key M for SSD (PCIe x4) 2280 form factor(Installed Corsair Force Series MP600 1TB Gen4 PCIe X4 NVMe M.2 SSD, Up to 4,950 MB/s (CSSD-F1000GBMP600))  (best for 2023 is Samsung V-NAND 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVME m.2 SSD)
 
I/O ports:
omen obelisk 875-0034 currently has WIFI and bluetooth installed in M.2 socket 1 (A Key)
USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 2: 1 Super Speed(original half open rectangle with 10 ss writen above it) it's the one above the other 4 usb slots on back it's 10Gbit/s)
USB Type-C 3.1 Gen 2: 1  (mini rounded corners 10gbts/sec) just below the Type A SS rectangled one on back
USB Type-A 3.1 Gen 1: 4 (original half open rectangle Bottom 4 slots 5Gbit/s)
USB type-A 3.1 Gen 1: 2 on front top (original half open rectangles)
RJ-45 (Ethernet)  
Audio: Line in (microphone)
Audio-out jack
Audio-in jack
 
TDP: up to 65 W
Socket type: LGA1151
Product number: 4NN43AA#ABA
Serial number: 2MO946****
 
So from what i've read I can upgrade my cpu to an Intel Core i9-9900.
But i have read on one forum that my bios will not offer this option to select the Intel Core I9-9900. Is this true?
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Hi:

 

The processor upgrade specs on your PCs support page indicates that you can:

 

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