CPU/Motherboard upgrade options for hp pavillion 15-aw065sa

[Kev181]

Hi guys. I would appreciate it if someone could let me know if there are any options to upgrade the motherboard and CPU in my current laptop. It is running a dual core processor A9 and it has become slower since upgrading to windows 11. I have already put in an SSD while on windows 10 and it made a huge difference. Financially I cannot buy a new laptop so upgrading the motherboard and CPU is my only option. Any advice, product numbers or codes would be extremely appreciated.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Personally, I wouldn't bother with trying to upgrade the motherboard because none of the processors offered in the model series support W11.

Chapter 3 of the service manual has the list of supported motherboards.

HP Pavilion Notebook PC Maintenance and Service Guide

When all is said and done; I would not be surprised if you spent as much money as buying a newer notebook that fully supports W11, and that is assuming you could find the parts you need for the upgrade.

My advice would be to double the memory to 2 x 8 GB and see if that helps any.   It should.

Buy two of these...

Crucial 8GB DDR4-2400 SODIMM | CT8G4SFS824A | Crucial UK

[Kev181]

Hi Paul, thank you so much for the reply and the advice. I had been thinking of upping the memory but was hesitant because of price thinking I may have to upgrade the mobo and cpu. The CPU usage is at close to 100% when browser open (Firefox). Ram utilization only 3.5gb of 8 installed. I'll go ahead and pull the trigger on new RAM. Hopefully it will help.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Hopefully the memory upgrade will help.

I'm running W11 on a HP 255 G7 with a weak AMD A4 processor a SSD and 8 GB of memory.

It is pretty slow, but it didn't seem to be any faster on W10 either.

[Kev181]

Hi Paul,

I found a 2nd hand motherboard with the a12 processor quad core. It would be a major improvement as my dual core a9 hits full usage with browser activity very easily. The cost in the difference between replacing like for like and the upgrade is €20. Buying a windows 11 laptop in Ireland to replace my own would be north of €450. A used 1 around €300.

To switch out the mobo for a second hand 1 and new ram I can do for around €100. New RAM arrives tomorrow. I went for 2133mhz at c15. The tohers were 2400 @ c17 and up. The max it can run is 2133mhz so the CPU would only be down clocking it anyway. As for windows 11, I've done a lot of research on it including checking the list of "approved" cpu's for installation. You can install on a lot more than listed. You can also strip it down to the minimum using apps like Revo or debloating by yourself or using a script. The main concern in the future with 11 surrounds security although that was blown out of the water in the past couple of weeks with a major vulnerability in TPM 2.0 being discovered.

Anyway, thanks for the support and advice. I truly appreciate it.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Regarding W11, I have upgraded no less than 15 unsupported PC's to W11 using the method I described in the link below, so I agree that the W11 security thing was kind of a weak excuse for having such stringent hardware cutoffs to install it.

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

Two of the PC's I upgraded were made in 2008.

Moreso, I think Microsoft learned a lesson when they opened up the floodgates to any PC running W7 to be upgraded to W10, and then had to provide operating system support for millions of PC's.

By eliminating so many PC's from being upgraded to W11, that lowered their obligation to support so many PCs again.

The PC's I have upgraded to W11 all run a little better than they did on W10.

Good luck with your notebook's motherboard upgrade project.