need some help about pavilion dv7 7047 cl

[k-han]

Hello everyone.

I have a (pavilion dv7-7047 cl) I’ve upgraded the ram up to 16 GB and added another hard drive (1T SSHD). Now it has total capacity of 2T and I want to buy an m-SATA drive and an SSD.

Despite some websites offered me SSDs up to 2T of capacity, in the “part number PDF” that I have there is an information about 32 GB for m-SATA drive, 160 GB for SSD and 1TB for HDD.

Now I’m confused a little and need your help because I want to know about the maximum capacity that I can choose for my laptop?

(I’d like to replace the BD-Rom with a caddy so I can have 2 HDDs and one SSD for the main slot)

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I want to upgrade the CPU too and to know if “Core i7-3820QM (681284-001)” is my limit or not?

Should I update the bios for replacing it with “Core i7-3610QM”?

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And the last question is:

Can I use “655795-001” if I want to have Bluetooth on my laptop?

Thank you for your help.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You have maxxed the memory. There are two SATA bays and you have a drive in each. There is a slot for an mSATA mSSD but if you are to use an SSD as the boot drive, you do not need the mSSD. It can only be used as an accelerator cache working with a hard drive. It will not work with an SSD and is actually slower than a current model SATA SSD so would do you no good. If you just wanted storage I guess you could use it for that and get a larger capacity mSSD but with two SATA bays that hardly seems needed. Put your slowest drive in the optical caddy as that interface is slower and you do not want to put an SSD in the optical bay. Optical drive is 12.7mm so you need a caddy like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Padarsey-Universal-Adapter-Enclosures-ThinkPad/dp/B07MDK6C5Z/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?...

You can swap over the existing face plate to make the installation look better. 

You can install a 2 TB SSD as the main drive. The Manual does not define what it is possible to install just the options HP offered at the time. 

Yes you can install this:

Atheros 9485GN 802.11b/g/n 1×1 WiFi and 3012 Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter 655795-001

https://www.amazon.com/Qualcomm-Atheros-AR9485-PCI-Express-654825-001/dp/B00TYMQN5Q/ref=sr_1_2?dchil...

You are near the top on the CPU. Yes the i7-3820QM would work but not really enough of an upgrade to justify, I think. Can't go any higher than that.

Always a good idea to upgrade the BIOS before installing a new CPU but not technically necessary. 

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if this is the info you needed.