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‎07-23-2020 06:51 AM

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My laptop is struggling with almost everything. So I am looking for some help in upgrading at least ram and ssd. I dont know what else can I upgrade to improve gaming performance.The laptop runs quite hot even on a table with cooling pad. I want to upgrade it to the most possible ram and ssd and other stuff as it is getting irritating.

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‎07-23-2020 08:55 AM - edited ‎07-23-2020 09:01 AM

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You may want to start by going to the support site and see what is in your "free" suggestions, here is a link to the online Support Page where you can download the specs and Maintenance & Service manuals for your system!

 

https://support.hp.com/ca-en/product/hp-pavilion-gaming-15-cx0000-laptop-pc/20284020/model/25257404/... 

Hope this helps!

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‎07-23-2020 09:49 AM

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Are these your specs?

 

https://support.hp.com/ca-en/product/hp-pavilion-gaming-15-cx0000-laptop-pc/20284020/model/25257404/...

 

You already have a 128 gig NVME M.2 SSD and that is the fastest storage available. Upgrading from 8 gb to 16 gb would help perhaps a little. You do have the lowest level i5 processor on that series but it still should perform pretty well and you have a solid video card. Something else is going on here. 

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‎07-23-2020 10:02 AM

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Yeah those are my specs. I feel my laptop is not performing at its full potential specially during gaming. Can I upgrade my SSD to 1 TB? And maybe ram to 32 GB? I heard some people did it and it worked perfectly. I dont know what more can I do to improve performance.

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‎07-23-2020 01:03 PM

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Sure you can do that and it will work but it will not help gaming much, if any. Gaming is done in the GPU and to a lesser extent the CPU. 8 gigs should be enough for gaming and 16 should certainly be plenty. No added benefit going to 32 gigs. And just putting in a larger SSD won't make it any faster either. 

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