Hardware upgrade

[ShivaNelluri]

My laptop is Hp pavilion 15-cc134tx with i7 8th generation and Nvidia Geforce 940MX 4GB and 8GB Ram.I have purchased my laptop 1 year back. I've been using it rigorously,for gaming,CAD,programming,watching movies,browsing. Today it's harddrive failed, which is 2TB HDD. Thank god,it's under warranty,ahead of 12 days expiry.The service center technician recommended me to install 256gb ssd. That's good. I want to upgrade my GPU as well.does it have any GPU upgrades or,should i have to buy external.Many laptop have CPU, GPU paired. If available recommend me the compatible GPU's. 

[banhien]

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@ShivaNelluri wrote:

... That's good. I want to upgrade my GPU as well.does it have any GPU upgrades or,should i have to buy external.Many laptop have CPU, GPU paired. If available recommend me the compatible GPU's. 

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@ShivaNelluri 

No, you can't upgrade CPU and GPU the simple way because they are soldered to ths system board. You have to buy a whole new system board (if available). You have to pay for new

  (a) Motherboard,

  (b) CPU / Processor

  (c) eGPU

  (d) New Windows license

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

Regards.

[Rooki3]

According to your manual (http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05493762), your laptop has an M.2 NVME Slot.

Theoretically you could use it to connect an eGPU in it, with one of these (preferably the ADT-Link
R43SG), and achieve almost Desktop like performance.

https://egpu.io/external-gpu-buyers-guide-2019/#m2-interface

Here is a successful example.

https://egpu.io/forums/builds/2016-15-6-dell-latitude-e5570-r7-m370-gtx-1070-32gbps-m2-adt-r3g-win10...

But there is a big possibility that Bios will not recognize it, cause of the known whitelist issue with the HP Bios.

And HP Bios are RSA signed and cannot be modded.

So, even if laptop is yours, you don't really own it.

HP has the final say and will decide what you can and what you can't do with it.

If you are determined to proceed, you can buy one of these cheap adapters and pair it with an old gpu, to test if it can work.

https://egpu.io/forums/expresscard-mpcie-m-2-adapters/us7-50-generic-mpcie-egpu-adapter/