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‎04-13-2019 12:11 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion g7-2003er
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello, everyone.

 

I'm want to upgrade CPU on my notebook Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz which is 2 cores 4 threads to the 4 cores 8 threads CPU, or just something relativily fresh. I've tried to look out in this forum about CPU upgrade, So I've download user's guide from HP website as many experts adviced and look out for compatible processors (https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-g7-2000-notebook-pc-series/5226249/model/5251388/ma...). Unfortunately in my user's guide documents I did not find out any information about CPU compatibility. 

 

This is what CPU-Z outputs me:

 

cpuz2.pngcpuz1.png

 

 

So when I'm googled information about my socket (which is what I'm think must to do) I've got this page:

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20G2%20(rPGA988B).html

 

But it says "please make sure that the CPU is compatible with the motherboard.

 

So  how can I will know that? Would help me? Do I need to email directly to the HP's technical support?

 

 

P/S. Also, do you think is worth it to upgrade faster processor with 4 cores / 8 threads or something else but faster, for Windows 10  for home office applications and home multimedia (movies, youtube etc). Without games.

 

Or, in my case, just upgrade to one thing which is SSD would be fine for me?

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