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HP 8770W

jhelton48

jhelton48

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Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
HP 8770W

i7 3630QM
8GB Memory
AMD M4000 1GB video
Backlit keyboard
BD rom drive

Will be upgrading it to

Nvidia GTX 970M 6GB
16GB Memory
24OGB Lexar SSD
Ordered Nvidia heatsink

Work in progress
 
Toothless

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Sooo is this a build log? Might want it moved to the proper forum.
 
jhelton48

jhelton48

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Location
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System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
Not really. Just posting it. Thank you

This is my HP 8740W that i did last year.
 

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jhelton48

jhelton48

Joined
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Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
Toothless here is your build!

Everything that i took out of the laptop. Cleaned the cpu heatsink because it was nasty. The heatsink fan was nasty also. So i had to clean it also. Memory was 8gb so that is out also. AMD heatsink and video card will be replaced.
 

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jhelton48

jhelton48

Joined
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Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
Now putting in the good.

16gb Samsung memory
Nvidia GTX 970M
Nvidia K4000 heatsink and clean fan
i7 3630QM left it in

Put in a 160gb hdd to verify working

Have ordered 16gb more memory
Ordered 2 Samsund EVO 500gb SSD's
Will post pictures when finished

Thank you
 

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jhelton48

jhelton48

Joined
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Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
16gb more memory
Samsung EVO 500gb x2

Windows Experiense Index
 

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jhelton48

jhelton48

Joined
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Messages
21 (0.02/day)
Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
Upgraded

i7 3740Q
HDD Caddy with 1tb hdd

Windows Experiense Index

Done!

Toothless​

 

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jhelton48

jhelton48

Joined
Dec 15, 2021
Messages
21 (0.02/day)
Location
Georgia, USA
System Specs
System Name HP 8740W
Processor i7 820QM
Memory 16GB
Video Card(s) Nvidia GTX 970M
Storage Primary - PNY 500GB SSD Secondary - PNY 1TB SSD
Display(s) Internal display plus 2 LA2205WG Monitors
Upgraded to Windows 10 Pro
 

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