Hardware upgrades for HP G7 notebook

So I ran the Windows Experience Index for my system and received a 4.6 based on the Display Adapter Type -AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6520G . Is there a way to upgrade this myself?

Hi:
Not without replacing the entire motherboard.
The only things that can generally be upgraded in notebooks is memory and hard drives.

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Hi I want upgrade my memory from 1Gb to 4Gb (x2 slices of 2Gb).
pc spec:-
s/w MS XP pro sp3.
Original mem
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hi yan_c,
Welcome to the Lenovo Community.
Have you tried to check the timings of the 2x2GB RAM if they are identical to the original 1GB RAM? You can use CPU-Z to check the timings of the 1GB RAM inside of Windows. As for the 2x2GB RAM, the timings should be in the packaging material.
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It's possible that the Memory Reference Code under the BIOS can't initiate the RAM if it has different timings. Flashing the BIOS would be the second step in this scenario.
Hope this helps.
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Hardware Upgrades for Shorter rendering times?

Hello,
Im a visual artist looking for any help in hardware reccomendations.
Im trying to render a single image sized at 36 x 49 inches at 300dpi (image is 255.6m)
estimated render time is 14 days 3 hours 26 min
Any tips would be hugely appreciated! Im looking to upgrade asap.
This is my current Hardware :
Macbook Pro Retina display early 2013
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
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yauwing2 wrote:
If you want to do this often in PhotoShop, you may need to upgrade to a Mac Pro with 12 Core CPU, d700 graphic option and 64GB RAM
That's not enough. The Mac Pro has unprecedented memory bandwidth, but from only one processor package. That's a severe limitation in my book.
I suggest instead you consider a dual-Xeon workstation configuration. Apple doesn't offer that kind of compute power (yet) in the new cylindrical design.
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I also noticed that the newest Intel Xeons have more QPI links - meaning one might expect to see 4 package designs built around, say, the 15 core E7-4890V2 within the next couple of years.
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Lack of DIY hardware upgrades for retina MacBook Pro

Can any hard-core Apple Fanboys testify that somehow built in ram on new retina MacBook Pro's is more stable than replaceable RAM modules which have come with previous models? I understand Apple's decision to move to built-in ram to make the overall computer smaller but it worries me a little not being able to replace or upgrade the RAM whenever I want to or whenever I need to. So I'm wondering if anybody can testify that built-in ram is better.

I would love it if they didn't phase it out. I just think its common sense. No one hear can say they understand apple more than the next forum member. I simply was asking if anyone here had any better technical knowledge than myself and knew for a fact that built in ram was or was not any better than sodimm. Ram
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I purchased my laptop in June of this year. A few months ago I also purchased a HDTV. I would like to add a HDMI card if possible, to the laptop so I can get on-line NETFLIX in HD. There is a tab that can be knocked out on the side of the laptop next to the ctrl key. Right now I am using the RGB (VGA) port along with the headphones port. The quality is acceptable, however HD quality would be better. Is adding a HDMI card a simple application with reasonable costs? I wish I would have known better in June about being able to access NETFLIX via the Internet. I would then have purchased a laptop with the HDMI outlet installed already. I noticed where I purchased the laptop that there is only a $20.00 difference with the HDMI port installed within. I recently stopped by the appliance store(chain) I got the computer at. The salesman told me to buy another new one with the port in it already. Easy for him to say. I told him I know more about computers than their sales staff, and I am only a step or two above a novice. In addition, I have never worked on a laptop, however I have installed boards on towers. So I am wondering to if the application of a HDMI card is a simple as installing a card on a tower or would you suggest I just take the laptop to a computer service tech?
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Hi,
As far as I'm aware there are no express cards ( for the slot next to the ctrl key ) that can give you this option and I would realistically say this facility would not be able to be added to the Motherboard. Sorry for the bad news.
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Feeling a bit left out in 2 years since I bought my Mac Pro with no real hardware upgrades for my Mac Pro.
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Windows 7 driver download page for your model:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-2000-2b00-Notebook-PC-series/5296210/model/530508...
Remember, when you buy a new laptop they do not give you recovery disks. That has been true for many years. However, there is a Recovery manager that will let you make those disks and if you do that and store them in a safe place you are always able to recover your system. Windows itself also now has very good backup tools including the ability to make a complete system image of the computer in its current state (not factory condition) so there is no real reason you cannot be fully protected against a hard drive crash.
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CQ60 Notebook PC, hardware upgrade

Greetings,
I'm new around here and needed some info about upgrading my hardware. First of all, I wanted to know if its possible to upgrade hardware like, i.e. Graphic Card, motherboard, memory, etc.?! I also wanted to know if its possible to change the memory of the onboard graphic card, since I tried but the BIOS won't even show a option to change it, I also upgraded my BIOS to a recent one but still no luck.
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The hardware maintenance manual is a valuable tool in determining what processor / mainboard limitation your system has. It should be easily found by searching under the CQ60 or G60 models.
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what hardware upgrades can i do on my pavilion dv6700? such as ram, cpu, hard drive, etc?

Hi,
As you already mentioned above, 2 items you can upgrade for your machine:
1. CPU: Please refer to the following book to find out processors supported from day 1:
h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295877.pdf
2. RAM & HDD: Please check this:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/HP-pavillion-dv6700-hard-drive-and-RAM/td-p/95023
Probably spending a bit more money for a new machine is much better than upgrading the old machine.
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Upgrade Tiger to Snow Leopard...... hardware upgrades?

Hope I'm putting this in the right location.
I'm currently running my MacBook in it's original configuration, as follows..
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
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Number Of Processors: 1
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So I'm just wondering are there any preparatory hardware upgrades I should be considering?
I only have the original 1GB of RAM...... I see from the apple store that I need to identify which generation my machine is...... from the above I thought it looks like Gen 2- is this correct?
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To answer your final question first you can upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 with no problems. Any program that runs under 10.4 will run under 10.6. You can install and run 10.6 with what you have in the MacBook right now. 1gb of RAM and the 80gb hard drive. I recently upgraded an older MacBook (1,1) with the same configuration. The generation of your machine simply tells you how much RAM you can use. 1,1 can use 2gb of RAM, 2,1 can use 3gb, 3,1 can use 4gb. Here's EveryMac.com's page on your MacBook http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/stats/macbook-core-2-duo-2.0-white -13-specs.html
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For RAM check DealRam.com http://dealnews.com/memory/prices/systems/Apple-Mac-Book-PC2-5300-DDR2-SODIMMS/4 3938/2GB.html or OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/
Your MacBook can hold two 2gb chips but can only use 3gb. I've got my 2,1 with one 1gb and one 2gb and don't notice any slowdown.
For hard drives try Newegg.com http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Dr ives or OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
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Which hardware upgrade to solve The Unbearable Slowness of Lightroom 3?

Hello,
I’m not going to start another thread about the slowness of Lightroom 3 because I also encounter most of the problems mentioned in the forums since upgrading to LR3: very slow response when using Adjustment Brush (which was already really slow on my machine when using LR2), loading images in Develope Module could take up to 30 seconds, browsing through the images takes forever, etc. I read lots of threads and tried several solutions but nothing works. There is no fun in post-processing images anymore.
I’m planning to upgrade my 4y old hardware very soon. Currently I’m using an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz, 4GB DDR2-800 RAM, Windows XP 32-bit, Nvidia 8800GT with 1GB RAM, WD Velociraptor (for OS, LR Catalogs, LR Cache).
I’m worried that my upgrade to faster hardware won’t solve my performance issues. I called a colleague-photographer last week who bought a MacPro dual quad-core 2.26Ghz and 8GB RAM in December last year and claims that his LR catalog with 150K images works very fast and smooth. On the other side, I have read several contradictory stories on the Adobe Forums where fast configurations also suffer performance issues, but where also normal configurations work more than fast enough. It remains vague what causes Lightroom to slow down. Probably multiple factors?
According to your experiences, which hardware upgrade will give Lightroom 3 the highest performance boost in comparison with my current system?
- Custom pc upgrade Win7 64-bit, Intel i7-930 2.8Ghz quad-core, 9 or 12GB DDR3-1600 RAM
- Custom pc upgrade Win7 64-bit, Intel i7-980 (or i7-970) six-core, 9 or 12GB DDR3-1600 RAM
- MacPro with dual quad-core 2.4Ghz, 8 or 10GB DDR3-1066 RAM
- MacPro single six-core 3.33Ghz, 8 or 10GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Is my videocard of any importance? I mean, do I choose Nvidia or ATI?
Thanks!

ambienttroutmask wrote:
Using an on board graphics card will just not drive monitors correctly at high resolutions and also will use the computers RAM. If you are running LR on a single low resolution monitor then on board graphics cards may be fine...but otherwise a separate card is absolutely a requirement.
I have no doubt that the above quote was meant to be helpful, but a separate (discrete) card is absolutely NOT a requirement for anyone specing a new machine for Lightroom.
Lightroom does not currently use graphics card/chips to do any image rendering. Things like demosaicing, noise reduction, sharpening and lens/perspective correction happen exactly at the same speed with integrated graphics as they do with $500 graphics cards. And displaying an image on high or low resolution monitors is handled by a low-level component know as a RAMDAC - which is independent of whether you have integrated or discrete graphics.
My dual core deskside and notebook computers running Win 7-64 are each capable of delivering about the same Lightroom performance. But in practice, I find that my deskside is much better for rendering because my new notebook only uses Turbo Boost to run at 3 GHz for a minute or two, before it throttles back because of heat (notebook CPU fans are much smaller than desktop/deskside fans). A discrete card would only excerbate the heat problem on my notebook and wouldn't add anything but cost for Lightroom on my 8GB deskside.
Some details for folks interested in the technical bits:
I have two systems that I use Lightroom on. Both have intel dual cores, have integrated graphics and run Win7-64. The older deskside has a 3 GHz e8400 with integrated graphics implemented on a separate chip, 8GB of memory and 4 internal disk drives. The newer notebook has a 2.4 to 2.9 GHz i5-520M with 4GB of memory, graphics embeded in the CPU chip and two internal disk drives. There is no Lightroom use case that would benefit buy "upgrading" either of these two machines to use a separate graphics card - except one. If I were routinely processing images much larger than almost all photographers create, a discreet card could help expand memory. But if memory is the constraint, it makes much more sense to add it directly to the base machine that it does to spend more money on a separate graphics card.
Dan

Dv7-4137so Hardware upgrade

Hello,
I'm looking to upgrade some hardware components in my notebook.
I would like to know what my options within cpu and memory upgrades are.
Also, is there a guide for dismantling my notebook for dust removal and further dissasembly?
In advance, thank you!
Thomas
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Hi,
The 3rd manual (4.02MB) of the following link is the book you need:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv7-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/4247665/model/4...
It will tell you upgradable CPU, RAM and how to open and shut the machine physically.
Regards.
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