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‎09-19-2020 02:20 PM - edited ‎09-19-2020 02:37 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion - 14-al111la
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have a HP Pavilion 14-al111la laptop that has an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX which is pretty mediocre in my opinion, but the laptop's processor and ram is enough for me so I don't really want to change the laptop itself.

I've been wondering if I can change the graphic's card to a GTX 1050 or GTX 1060. Does it even fit? Is it compatible? And in the case that those aren't compatible, are there better options that can be compatible with my laptop that are equivalent to the graphic cards that I mentioned?

Extra info:

Processor: Intel Core i7-75000U 2.70 GHz - 3.5 GHz  (4 Cores)
RAM: 16 GB

Thank you so much!

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‎09-19-2020 03:19 PM

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@Dagg966 

 

No you can't, because it is one part of the System Board, you have to buy new System Board (if available) that means you have to buy new

 

(a) Motherboard,

(b) CPU / Processor,

(c) dGPU if available,

(d) New Windows license (you can't reuse old license)


Because all 4 above components are on one piece of hardware called system board.

 

And with labor cost, total cost would be very close to buying new machine.

 

Regards.

BH
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‎09-19-2020 03:19 PM

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@Dagg966 

 

No you can't, because it is one part of the System Board, you have to buy new System Board (if available) that means you have to buy new

 

(a) Motherboard,

(b) CPU / Processor,

(c) dGPU if available,

(d) New Windows license (you can't reuse old license)


Because all 4 above components are on one piece of hardware called system board.

 

And with labor cost, total cost would be very close to buying new machine.

 

Regards.

BH
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