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‎11-11-2016 11:52 PM

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Product: Pavilion sleekbook 15-b146sa
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
Hi,

I have been looking for ways to upgrade my laptop. I undrestand I cant upgrade my graphics/video card am I correct?

I have been deep searching and contacting HP assistant ( unhelpful assistant ) to see other ways to upgrade things up, I now I can upgrade the Memory RAM and hard drive.

On Mr memory website and Crucial it said I can upgrade up to 16GB of memory RAM but when I check HP product info it says up to 8GB? ( thats half ) I'm confused? Is it true? Why? Also I have to check how much it supports each slot? I'm looking into getting Samsung original ram 8GB ( 1 x 8GB ), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3L-12800, 1600MHz, can I get 2? Will it work fine?

Now regarding on the hard drive, I am really hesitant to buy an SSD because of what i read about cloning etc, I'm not too wiz and dont want to risk it plus I dont know if my machine would support such beast?
I am looking into getting Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA 2.5" Laptop Hard drive HDD 5400 RPM WD10JPVXRe what do you think? Is it good? Should I go ahead with confidence?

Product: Hp Pavilion Sleekbook 15-b146sa
OS Windows 10 PRO
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‎11-12-2016 08:05 AM

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The Manual and all other sources I see from HP says 8 gigs maximum. But the chipset and processor theoretically will allow 16 gigs of DDR3L-1600. The upgrade from 8 gigs to 16 gigs is rarely as helpful as people think it will be unless you do something like heavy video or photo editing. If you have 8 gigs now I would leave well enough alone. 

 

Frankly, your only hope for performance improvement is a solid state drive. Your laptop absolutely will take to it like a duck to water. You will wonder why you did not do it sooner.

 

 Installing a very slow 5400 rpm spinner drive will not improve speed in any way and might actually go in the opposite direction. You do not have to clone the old system to the new SSD and in fact your best bet is a clean install. Once you have had Windows 10 on it you can simply reinstall Windows 10 and it will automatically reactivate. 

 

Manual

 

See p. 47 for "how-to" on the hard drive. 

 

Yes, no upgrade to video or processor is possible. 

 

Post back with any more questions. 

 

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‎11-12-2016 08:05 AM

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The Manual and all other sources I see from HP says 8 gigs maximum. But the chipset and processor theoretically will allow 16 gigs of DDR3L-1600. The upgrade from 8 gigs to 16 gigs is rarely as helpful as people think it will be unless you do something like heavy video or photo editing. If you have 8 gigs now I would leave well enough alone. 

 

Frankly, your only hope for performance improvement is a solid state drive. Your laptop absolutely will take to it like a duck to water. You will wonder why you did not do it sooner.

 

 Installing a very slow 5400 rpm spinner drive will not improve speed in any way and might actually go in the opposite direction. You do not have to clone the old system to the new SSD and in fact your best bet is a clean install. Once you have had Windows 10 on it you can simply reinstall Windows 10 and it will automatically reactivate. 

 

Manual

 

See p. 47 for "how-to" on the hard drive. 

 

Yes, no upgrade to video or processor is possible. 

 

Post back with any more questions. 

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

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‎11-12-2016 08:34 AM

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Hi and thank you for your prompt answer.

Sorry I didnt clarify, yes I do gaming/video editing/uploading to youtube.

So it can handle 16Gb? Is that samsung Ram any good? What type/brand of SSD do you recommend for my laptop

Does the SSD install the same as HHD just plug it and thats it? Then clean install win10 again?

Thanks in advance
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‎11-12-2016 08:37 AM

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Oh and the thing about the RAM Slots? How much each slot can handle?
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‎11-12-2016 01:30 PM

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Officially it cannot take 16 gigs. You try that at your risk. So the max in each slot is officially 4 gigs but other machines with similar hadware can take 16 gigs or 8 in each slot. Some chance it would work; no promise. Yes, the SSD would install and load Windows just like a hard drive. Windows 10 will know it is an SSD and configure it accordingly. Nothing to adjust in the BIOS. 

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