pixelado_92

I'm crossing my fingers for more miniPCs to ship with good MXM cards (for harvesting them later, lol), now that the standard is kind of dead on laptops.

Interesting. There's no such thing as dual-pipe CPU heatsinks for the Zbook 15 so I guess mine is fine. Oh, is that an advanced docking station you got there? I only have the simple 2012 one. Can you put an optical drive or HDD caddy on yours?

I never thought of such mod haha. HRR is most often used for playing games, right? Personally, most of the time I spend playing games I do at home, on my desk, using a monitor. I would be more interested in knowing whether these systems can take a more recent RTX card.

Nice, my zbook 15 only pulls 2600 points in its current condition.

Ok it seems I'll have to pay a local tech shop to test their 4700MQ on my Zbook. If the 4700MQ boots up and works fine, I see no reason why a 4800MQ or even a 4900MQ wouldn't. I'll report back when I get the chance to test this. Thanks for your insightful replies!

Nice one! So you managed to upgrade from a dual-core CPU to a quad-core one, eh? Is that even allowed in HP-land? haha I want to do the same to my Zbook 15 G1 but I'm not sure if its motherboard would take it. I bought my zbook back in 2018 from a dishonest seller who published a 4800MQ/K2100M model and shipped a 4600M/K610M (a.k.a. one of the shittiest configs) instead. Help me out here if you got any clues! Thanks in advance!

tl;dr: Has anyone tested upgrading a dual-core Zbook 15 G1 to a quad-core CPU? ################################ So, as the tittle goes, I currently own a Dual-Core Zbook 15 G1 which came factory-equiped with a Core i7-4600M CPU (2c4t). I'm currently planning to upgrade it with a 4800MQ or a 4900MQ (both 4c8t) if possible. Here's the thing, though: The service manual for this particular model lists different system board assemblies for dual-core (SPS: 734303-XXX) and quad-core (SPS: 734304-XXX) computers. A quick visual inspection of pictures found online tells me the only obvious difference is the lack of the two additional RAM slots under the keyboard[1], which I guess makes sense as a dual-core CPU would probably not be able to "see" the two extra DIMMs. I could buy the desired CPUs off Ebay but most sellers won't accept returns in case of incompatibility, as that's the buyer's fault. It would be a shame to spend close to $100 in a CPU only to find it the computer isn't up for it! I have looked hard in the local market but the best I could find is a Core i7-4710MQ, which is a bit slower than the 4800MQ and it lacks VT-d[2]. They're also asking about $150 for it so yeah, it's overpriced. So, here's the big question: Has anyone been able to perform a dual-core to quad-core upgrade on this particular system? Or something similar? I guess there's been people would have tried to upgrade their dual-core Sandy Bride/Ivy Bridde EliteBooks to quad-core CPUs as well haha. I've read about people successfully upgrading their dual-core mobile workstations but they were from different brands, most often Lenovo ThinkPads. Thanks in advance for your time! Regards. PD: this post was copy-pasted from the one I made in HPs official forums. ====================================== [1] Which I fully expected to get when I purchased this machine in used condition, **bleep** dishonest sellers! [2] Which I plan to use for GPU pass-through under Linux.

Damn! Nice upgrade! I wish I had a 17-incher just for the additional headroom haha. Share some benches please! Passmark, 3DMark, anything!