The notebooks feature a magnesium alloy chassis, anodized aluminum lid and palm rests, spill-resistant keyboards, active hard-drive protection and dual pointing devices ( touchpad and pointing stick). Yes, it gets that hot.The HP EliteBook line is engineered to meet military MIL-STD-810 standards for reliability and performance under extreme conditions, namely for temperature, altitude, humidity, dust, shock and vibration. Last thing you want is thermal throttling or even shutdowns. The heat that is generated from the high end Quad Core cpus will barely be cooled by the 8470P's single pipe cooling system.
You would gain native Intel USB 3.0, an upgrade on CPU technology (and GPU a little.and a bit more if you pick the AMD GPU variant) a bump in memory speed to 1600Mhz and the removal of the WiFi Bios whitelist so that you can use any WiFi card you like.Ī word to the wise though, if you are going to get a high end Core i7 Quad CPU, don't get the AMD Radeon mainboard variant. If you already have a working 8460p, you would want to weigh out the differences. The 8460p and the 8470p mainboard's are the same size and layout, with the exception of the express card/power LED connector and the display connector to the mainboard. Let me know if you have any questions, or if you would like some pictures, hope this helps.Ĭlick to expand.If you don't use the Smart Card, you don't necessarily need it installed on the machine. I would sell it on NBR, but I need to reach 100 post. I still have some leftover parts from the 8460p, like the CPU, ram and mainboard/others. it was not an easy task but I don't see any other way of upgrading it unless I get larger capacity SSD's.
I have Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 running on dual boot perfectly fine. The 8460p has a bios whitelist for Wireless cards, and the 8470p does not. Swapped the old Broadcom BCM43224HMS Wi-Fi 801.11n wireless card (The only one compatible with macOS that is not blacklisted by the BIOS) to the BCM94352HMB 802.11AC version. Swapped the HD+ cable from the 8460p version to the 8470p version. Swapped the express card card to get the touchpad, express card and the Power/HDD/AC/Wi-Fi LED's to work. Doing this made me realize that the express card adapter from the 8460p is NOT compatible with the 8470P board.
Swapped the original top bezel to get the ability to use the fingerprint reader. I can always use an eGPU to get more horsepower, but this laptop is not purposed for gaming. I will be using the i7-3820QM so that sucker will generate a lot of heat. I used the Intel version (non AMD GPU version) of the board due to concerns of heat. Swapped the mainboard from the 8460p to 8470p. Here are the things I had to swap to get it to work.:
you would think that they would use the same layout between boards if they are using the same chassis.NOPE. I had to purchase other parts to complete the swap. BT will not work from the card since the machine already has built in adapter)ġ600x900 HD+ 14" display (using available HD+ cable *for* the 8470p.standard cable for the 8470p or the HD+ cable from the 8460p will NOT work) Intel Core i7-3820QM Quad Core CPU w/8MB 元 Cache 2.7Ghz-3.6Ghz (45W TDP)Ģx 250GB Samsung Evo SATA III 2.5" drives (one in main caddy bay for Windows 10, second in Optical drive via ODD Drive caddy for macOS)īroadcom BCM94352HMB Wireless-AC Mini PCI-E card (AC runs 867Mbps. You will NEED to buy a few extra things to get the swap to work correctly.
Let me tell you.it was NOT a direct swap. I had an 8460p that I wanted native USB 3.0 for macOS High Sierra and the biometric fingerprint reader, so I swapped out the board and other things so it's essentially an 8470p in an 8460p shell. Hey everyone, just wanted to share my experience with this conversion.