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‎02-18-2019 01:43 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion 17-e146us
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I currently have this laptop which has the i3-4000m processor installed. The TDP of the processor is 37w which means that the best possible CPU for the laptop is either the i7-4702mq or the i7-4712mq. The problem with choosing one of these processors is the chance it might not work if they aren't supported by the BIOS. I have looked online and many, many people have done this upgrade and about 50% have succeded in their attempt. My assumption as to why the rest did not succed in the upgrade was from insufficient BIOS support and I expect these systems only support three CPUs [i3-4000m, i5-4200m, and the i7-4600m]. Not only am I planing on upgrading the CPU but I also have an extra SSD I'm currently not using and about 100 sticks of DDR3 ram in a box in the garage. Planning to go up to 16gb if possible but I am unable to find a list of supported ram modules for this laptop either. If anyone has a list of supported CPUs and ram that would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has done this upgrade in the past with success if you could please let me know what processor you selected and why that would also be appreciated.

Here's a Speccy snapshot of the computer:

Summary
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i3 4000M @ 2.40GHz 51 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 1977 (U3E1)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HP)
Storage
698GB TOSHIBA MQ01ABD075 (SATA ) 42 °C
Optical Drives
hp DVD-RAM UJ8DB
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

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‎02-18-2019 01:59 PM

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@TIMREED56 

 

Your machine currently has  6GB DDR3L SDRAM (2 DIMM) that means 1 slot has 4GB and 1 slot has 2GB. You can upgrade to 16GB using the following compatible RAM (guaranteed by Crucial):

 

      https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP---Compaq/pavilion-17-e146us

 

For CPU, please see the list on page 2 of the following manual

 

      http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04069163.pdf

 

You need right part on page 85 and latest BIOS on the following link

 

     https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC-series/5401229/model/687...

 

Regards.

BH
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