While overclocking is possible on select HP systems, overclocking is not supported by HP. An unlocked processor installed in the system enables the user to overclock the system if desired, but overclocking is not supported by HP. The overclocking capability is limited by the BIOS. If you upgrade to a Core 2 Duo Quad QX9300 according to the manual it has higher power consumption. I apologize for the Inconvenience.īased on Intel chipset specifications these are compatible for this model. I see you are looking to upgrade the CPU on the HP Pavilion Notebook. Welcome to the HP Support Community! I'd like to help! Thanks for the attention (and forgive me the wall of TheSpartan, A quad core would be a great addition I believe but my experience with these old Quad Cores is pratically none, specially given today's requirements and my own requirements for lower power consumption since I do not know if they are consume little if at idle / under light load. My idea was to use the dv7 2150ep for web browsing and low level gaming / low level work specially taking power consumption in consideration to lower the costs of running it. Money is not really a question (but power consumption could be).Īdditional Info: Already have all the RAM I could get and SSD for the boot+secondary drive on both laptops. Things have changed +10 years later, but I am not sure if these old Quad Cores are efficient enough at processing things today. I would like to mention that I also bought the T9800 since it was very cheap and since it uses the same 35w as the P8700, but I haven't installed it yet.Ģnd Question: Supposing I add the QX9300, does the HP bios support overclocking/underclocking? Right now it doesn't, but i was wondering if anything would change (in terms of options on the BIOS) if I replaced the CPU with an Unlocked/Xtreme one.ģrd Question: More like a personal opinion than a technical question, but what would you do? Back when I bought this laptop I prefered higher clock speed for the CPU than multi cores since most processes used 2 cores at most. The manual states the Intel Core i7-820QM, but the difference is so little that I am unsure if it is worth the investment / risk of opening the laptop.Ĭurrent CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHzġst Question: Can I upgrade to a Core 2 Duo Quad QX9300? Accordingly to the manual the Quad Q9100 is supported but I am not really interested on that one due to lower base clock (and higher power consumption to what I already have!). Question: Is there a list of possible CPU upgrades for this product? If so please give me that list and any possible suggestion specially regarding performance. I would like to upgrade the CPU of 2 HP pavilion dv7 I posess.Ĭurrent CPU: Intel Core i7 720QM 1.60GHz Greeting, it is my first post in these forums! Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.

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