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Can I upgrade my laptop processor

Girish_rish

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Jun 8, 2017
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My laptop is a HP notebook 15
It has 4 core AMD A8 processor with 4 gb of DDR 3 RAM in it. Also I would like to increase the RAM can that be done?Can I upgrade it?
 
Solution
CPU - most of quad core hp 15 that I've seen have had the A8-7410. If yours has this you are out of luck. It is BGA (soldered to motherboard) and ... I believe it is the top processor in its family.

Ram - 'officially' the hp 15 supports 8 gb of ram. That is also said about the hp g6 but I know the g6 is ok with 16 - not sure if this is true for the hp 15.
Without the model of the laptop we can't get the needed information to answer your question. The HP notebook 15 is a series that has many configurations.
 
CPU - most of quad core hp 15 that I've seen have had the A8-7410. If yours has this you are out of luck. It is BGA (soldered to motherboard) and ... I believe it is the top processor in its family.

Ram - 'officially' the hp 15 supports 8 gb of ram. That is also said about the hp g6 but I know the g6 is ok with 16 - not sure if this is true for the hp 15.
 
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