Replacement motherboard

[Salivating11ama]

I have had this laptop since starting college, it's been great thus far and I've already upgraded to an m.2 ssd and 16gb of ram, but I'm hoping to get a little more out of it. I noticed the motherboard has the gpu socket, so basically I'm wondering if they used the same motherboard (but shipped with a gpu) in any other laptops because I'd like to swap it in for some extra power.

[banhien]

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@Salivating11ama wrote:

...  it's been great thus far and I've already upgraded to an m.2 ssd and 16gb of ram, but I'm hoping to get a little more out of it. I noticed the motherboard has the gpu socket,

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@Salivating11ama 

How do you know it has a GPU socket ? You have to buy a whole new System board (if available) which contains

1. Motherboard
2. CPU
3. dGPU if any
4. Windows license

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

If you wish, you can use System boards of the series from a list on page 49 of the following manual

                  http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06146792.pdf

Regards.