HP OMEN 16-wf1072ng RAM & SSD Upgrade

[Starforger]

Dear community,

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

I recently acquired the HP OMEN 16-wf1072ng laptop (in Europe, Austria). Out of the box, it comes with a 1 TB hard drive (1 TB PCIe® Gen4 NVMe™ Performance M.2 SSD) and 16 GB of RAM in total (16 GB DDR5-5600 MHz RAM (2x 8 GB)).

It also comes with an Intel® Core™ i7-14700HX processor.

I now want to upgrade the RAM and the SSD.

In order to do so and find out what the maximum specs I can upgrade to are, I contacted HP Support. They sent me a Maintenance and Service Guide (https://kaas.hpcloud.hp.com/pdf-public/pdf_7768944_en-US-1.pdf) and referred me to page 9 of the PDF document where it says that I can only upgrade to 32 GB of RAM (2*16) and only have 1 SSD Slot. 

After further inquiry (noting that the M&S guide did not mention the 14th Generation of Intel), I sent them the link to a German website specialized in selling hardware-compatible RAM upgrades, where it specifically says that my model can be upgraded to 96 GB of RAM in total (https://www.speicher.de/arbeitsspeicher-48gb-ddr5-hp-omen-16-wf1072ng-ram-so-dimm-sp526361.html?c=38...)

I even called the German website to ask them where they got that information from and they said that Intel's 14th-Gen processors are generally capable of up to 192 GB RAM in Total (4*48 GB in case of 4 sockets, so because my OMEN has 2 that's likely how they came up with 96)

After I asked HP about this discrepancy, they looked at this website and then basically copy-pasted the 96 GB info from there to let me know that the 32 GBs they mentioned before are not the limit after all.

Then, after further inquiry, they let me know that my Laptop has 2 SSD slots and can be upgraded to a maximum of 2 TB in total, a maximum of 1TB per slot.

So, my faith in HP support's accuracy currently being a bit shaky, my 2 main questions are the following:

• RAM upgrade: Based on the information in this post, would you also agree with the German website's assessment that my specific OMEN model can be upgraded to 96 GB of RAM?
• Storage upgrade: Do you find the maximum of 2TB SSD for 2 slots accurate or do you think I could go for 2* 2TB? And in any case, which SSDs would be compatible? I did not find my exact OMEN Model on the Crucial homepage, just for "HP OMEN 16-WF0000", which actually might include my model and ALL WF models of any kind: https://www.crucial.de/compatible-upgrade-for/hp-compaq/hp-omen-16-wf0000 

Thank you VERY MUCH in advance for your guidance, I do not know a lot about hardware upgrades.

For reference, here is the link to my laptop model on the official HP homepage, with product specifications already pre-selected: https://www.hp.com/at-de/products/laptops/product-details/product-specifications/2102119743

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Usually, the service manual mentions only the specs it can be purchased with

You can upgrade to 64GB (2 x 32GB) 

I do not think you can find larger RAM modules anyway.

There is no limit to the capacity of the M2 SSDs. 

You can find max RAM supported by motherboard

type cmd in search and open as Command Promptadministrator 

type wmic memphysical get maxcapacityEx 

divide the number by 1048576 to get the solution in GB

Hope it helps,

David

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[Starforger]

Hi David!

Thanks so much for the answer 😊

The maximum RAM according to your command is indeed 64 GB.

Noob question, why does the SSD Storage have no limit? 🙂

[iomare]

You're welcome @Starforger 

What is available in the service manual is what you can customize at purchase.

The slot accepts the SSD and there is no realistic limit from OS. So should work fine.

I see older models customized and sold on Amazon with 4TB drives and 64 GB RAM

https://www.amazon.com/HP-14-Core-i7-13700HX-Thunderbolt-Four-Zone/dp/B0C8RPWBB5?th=1

Hope it helps,

David

[iomare]

Hi,

Just to add

you are looking for a 4th gen M2 PCIe NVMe SSD

something like

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Internal-Gaming-Desktop-Compatible/dp/B0CK2TC9XQ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid...

or this

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Internal-Gaming-MZ-V8P2T0B-AM/dp/B08RK2SR23/ref=sr_1_6?crid=XJU191OEY...

And here some compatible RAM

https://it.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/hp-compaq/hp-omen-16-wf0000#memory

Nice machine you have 😀

[Starforger]

Thanks so much 😃

I was eyeing the WD Blue SN 580 NVMe SSD (https://www.westerndigital.com/de-de/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-sn580-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T3B0E)

and

Kingston DDR5-5600 (https://www.mylemon.at/artikel/kingston/kf556s40ibk2_64/64gb-ddr5-5600mt-s-cl40.html)

Any thoughts?

You were very helpful today, thank you a lot 🙂

[iomare]

Yes. They both look good. 

Looked at the spec sheets and they have the correct settings, so should work fine.

All the best,

David