Upgrading my hp to a gaming laptop

Hi i was trying to make my HP Pavilion dv6-6c12ed Entertainment Notebook PC to be a better gaming laptop and i wanted to make some upgrades.so i needed some info on what to upgrade but note that i wont afford to get a whole new motherboard but still u should tell me if i have to but at this time i dont think i can upgrade those kind of stuff.i will take any info that i can to make my laptop a better gaming laptop and by the way is my laptop a good gaming laptops,i am a high game player and lover and i play a lot of new and recent games.most new games that come out i would like to play them all like even watch dogs and the ones upcoming.this is why i am looking to upgrade.here is all the specifications about my laptop here is a link to my laptops info the changes i made to it is now its windows 8.1 64bit and i am using bit defender 2015 with a 6 month activation left rather than norton internet security.thank u for ur time.and please help me to make my hp a better gaming laptop
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No you cannot swap processors with your friend. Based on your questions even if you could swap it would not be a good thing to try and your processors are very close in power. Where his laptop is better than yours is the video. The video memory is not that important it is the speed of the graphics engine. On the Radeon graphics card the higher the number the better. 7670 is better than 7400. Neither is a great gamer but his is better than yours by a fair margin. An even swap of his laptop for yours would not be cheating him. Yours is a higher end laptop generally just not for gaming. His laptop is not upgradeable either. No video card change is possible in either laptop for an amount of money less than a new laptop.
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