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Happy to provide information but understand many people start out down this road and when they find out what it costs and the limited real upgrade potential they just buy a new laptop.
Here is the Service Manual, which will answer all your questions if you know how to decipher it.
Processor is soldered on as you seem to understand. Motherboards for this series have up to an i7-4500U CPU soldered on.
This would be your best motherboard and would also include a switchabe discrete video chip which would be the Intel 4400M and nVidia GeForce 740M 2 gig. At this date, 5+ years from the introduction of this system, it is largely obsolete for current gaming but would run mid-level games from the same time period with effects lowered.
Intel Core i7-4500U 1.8-GHz (2 GB DC BGA 15 W) for use with Windows Standard
737986-501
HP no longer has this board in stock so you would have to find one in the 3rd party market such as on eBay:
This motherboard still costs $200-300 since it is the top of the line for this model series and includes the high end processor.
There is no M.2 slot and it does not have USB-C Thunderbolt 3 or other modern features. It could be maxxed out at 2 x 8 gigs of DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM (ignore the Manual where it says 12 is the max; actually 16).
8 GB memory module PC3L 12800 1600Mhz SHARED
693374-001
Another $95 for a pair of those:
You could install a 2.5 inch SATA-3 SSD like this:
Another $100 there so now we are at about $450 assuming you can do all the labor. Labor for motherboard install, reload Windows, etc. might be another $150-200.
And when you are done, you have a laptop that was top of the line 5 years ago. And you still have that 1366 x 768 screen which really keeps it from being top of the line for any era. You could have a new laptop that performs much much better for a few hundred more if you catch a good sale.
Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed.
HP Recommended
Happy to provide information but understand many people start out down this road and when they find out what it costs and the limited real upgrade potential they just buy a new laptop.
Here is the Service Manual, which will answer all your questions if you know how to decipher it.
Processor is soldered on as you seem to understand. Motherboards for this series have up to an i7-4500U CPU soldered on.
This would be your best motherboard and would also include a switchabe discrete video chip which would be the Intel 4400M and nVidia GeForce 740M 2 gig. At this date, 5+ years from the introduction of this system, it is largely obsolete for current gaming but would run mid-level games from the same time period with effects lowered.
Intel Core i7-4500U 1.8-GHz (2 GB DC BGA 15 W) for use with Windows Standard
737986-501
HP no longer has this board in stock so you would have to find one in the 3rd party market such as on eBay:
This motherboard still costs $200-300 since it is the top of the line for this model series and includes the high end processor.
There is no M.2 slot and it does not have USB-C Thunderbolt 3 or other modern features. It could be maxxed out at 2 x 8 gigs of DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM (ignore the Manual where it says 12 is the max; actually 16).
8 GB memory module PC3L 12800 1600Mhz SHARED
693374-001
Another $95 for a pair of those:
You could install a 2.5 inch SATA-3 SSD like this:
Another $100 there so now we are at about $450 assuming you can do all the labor. Labor for motherboard install, reload Windows, etc. might be another $150-200.
And when you are done, you have a laptop that was top of the line 5 years ago. And you still have that 1366 x 768 screen which really keeps it from being top of the line for any era. You could have a new laptop that performs much much better for a few hundred more if you catch a good sale.
Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed.
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