HP Zbook 16 G9 Fury - new adventure!

[GuitarG]

Hi there!

As I am slowly closing my old project, there is a new one as soon as I bought replacement for ol' trusty rusty 8570w. With a nice price tag, I though "why not". 

 

It has 12th gen i7 HX CPU, A3000 gpu, lovely vapor chamber, 32GB of ram and a lot of potential.

There are some things I don't like and some I do. As for now I wanted to :

-Change keyboard Done!
-Upgrade IPS LCD to OLED 120HZ 2K

-Upgrade power supply to at least 280W or even 330W (I use puny 200W)

-Make chassis sturdier and coolder? (I mean less hot furnance, more ice freezer)
-Upgrade speakers
-Upgrade GPU - A3000 to at least A3500 or higher

-Newer motherboard? (If I win lottery, haha)

 

I tried using chinesium big HP charger to smaller HP charger (as I have 280W left from 8570w), but failed. So I don't recommend them, laptop don't recognize those. And original 200W is burning itself slowly to death.
 

Already bought cable with enough DP lanes for 4K ! Part number on photo. Now I have to save money for buying that sweet, sweet 120HZ OLED from Samsung.. 

 

Case is good, generally speaking, but I hate plastic bottom plate. I plan to try CNC that in aluminium.. maybe.
 And I have yet to think about modding palmrest to less of that of hot plate :F (no ideas for now)

 

Before I bought that COMPUTOR (think of aliens voice in muppets, haha) I used for 2 weeks MBP 16" with M1. I disliked some things about that bitten apple, but it's ice like coldness and very good sounding (for laptop) speakers got me shocked. Inspired me so much, that I will try to replicate that characteristic.

About things I despise (and I may be too lazy to do something about) is power button right on keyboard. Yuck! 
Quality is something to be desired, ex. DuraKeys on older HP are very hard to leave finger print on them, here it's much easier to leave grease (maybe because high temperature ?). Finish on older palmrest is better, too (same reasons as keyboard). Motherboard is more fragile, too. Those puny connectors and locks.. I can't count times I dissasembled old girl (about milion times, no kidding) and nothing brittled or got damaged. Here I was disconnecting LCD cable (for palmrest swap) and while connecting it back it's plastic locking tab almost flied itself to Moon. And I was careful about it. Keyboard is harder to swap, but at least it's screwed on, not riveted.

Anything else comes to mind I will share here. Let the fun begin ..

Now!