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‎07-27-2025 12:20 PM

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HP GAMING LAP TOP GEN 8 COFFEE LAKE MOBO HP 8478 UPGRADE TO NVME SSD?

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‎07-27-2025 01:42 PM - edited ‎07-27-2025 01:42 PM

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Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

 

HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop Maintenance and Service GuideIMPORTANT! This document is intended for HP a...

 

It does support NVMe SSD's according to chapter 1, page 2 of the service manual.

 

The drive capacities listed in the manual are just what HP offered in the model series, not the maximum capacity supported, so if you wanted to install a larger capacity NVMe SSD than 256 GB, that should be fine.

 

The M.2 slot is PCIe Gen 3.0, so if you buy a Gen 4.0 SSD, it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

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