g7-1328dx CPU upgrade

[JSikora1]

Hello, I am trying to find out what the fastest cpu that would work on a couple of laptops that I am looking to speed up. The first one is a g7-1328dx product A7A44UA#ABA 

I also am trying to figure out why the maximum ram according to HP says 8GB yet other sites have 16GB? I put 16 in several of these g-7 laptops various models and it works fine for the ones that I have tried.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

HP retired support for the model series since it is more than 10 years old, so there is no info available from HP.

I found this manual which was the closest one I could find that shows a list of similar AMD processors to the A6-3420M

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Looks like the A8-3500M would be the best you can do.

Memory:  Some of the g7 intel models with 2nd generation core processors should support 16 GB of memory.

From what I know the AMD processors only supported 2 x 4 GB of memory.

However, you can do this to see how much memory your notebook can support:

1. In the search box, search for cmd and click Run as administrator.

This will open the command prompt.

2. Once command prompt is opened, type wmic memphysical get maxcapacityEx and hit enter.

There, it will show the maximum RAM capacity your PC's motherboard can support.

The capacity is shown as Kilobytes, so you have to convert it to Gigabytes by dividing the number provided in the report by 1,048,576.