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‎01-20-2023 08:46 AM

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I bought this laptop and seems to be nice but sluggish  (pentium gold 7505,ram 4GB ,128GB ssd NVMe)

increasing /upgrading the performance will probably worth to keep it 

anyone knows if this can be upgraded with   a better CPU , RAM (now has only 4 ) 

(motherboard is HP 88BA) 

Im thinking to upgrade this with the i5 -8520 U and 16GB/ram 

would that be possible or i need to upgrade also the  motherboard ?

any help is highly appreciated 

Thanks 

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‎01-20-2023 08:57 AM

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When I see that a notebook has a Pentium gold 7505 processor I know it is an entry level notebook.  

 

No matter what you do to upgrade it will always be perceptibly slower that anything but  a Chromebook. 

 

It can't be upgraded to a better processor because it does not have a socketed processor. The processor is integrated into, or soldered into the system board.

Upgrading the system board is also not viable since the ports and headers on a different system board will not be in the same position as the original.  That means that a different system board will not fit into the current notebook's enclosure.

 

The next time you look at notebook purchasing and want a minimum of good performance, consider nothing less that a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 with 8 GB of installed memory.

 

 


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‎01-22-2023 04:49 AM

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Thank you and really appreciated it...

You are right the CPU is soldered  and cannot be  upgraded if you don't upgrade also the motherboard 

However, I was able to push some extra RAM (single 8 GB) and now it works like a charm, but not expecting to play games too while its quite limited, to be honest as you said 

some speed-up has been noticed and considerably well, and well enough to keep the laptop for usual tasks 

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