Question Swapping a K1100M for K5100M?

[Pankaikz]

I have an HP Omen Pro 15 with a K1100M. Can I swap it for another Kx100M card? They made up to a K5100M as far as I know. Because of what I payed for the laptop a few years ago, I wouldn't mind spending a few hundred dollars on a better GPU. Frankly, it works fine as is. I just do CAD on it and do the majority of the heavy lifting with cloud based programs when I can. Would be nice to have more GPU for when my internet connection is acting up, though. The CAD/CAM I do isn't anything really crazy, but faster would be better. I imagine that a K1100M produces less heat than a K5100M, but I'm wondering if they used the same GPU cooler on this as on the higher performance GPUs in the same laptop. Also, I really don't know what other GPUs were an option for this laptop, since I got it used. Maybe the top tier for this laptop was a K3100M or something. No clue.

 

[Lutfij]

This is the motherboard you should be having. You should be able to see that the GPU is actually soldered onto the motherboard and there are no slots with which you can replace said GPU to a latter gen, so the answer is no, you can't upgrade the GPU.

 

[Pankaikz]

As far as I know, the GPU is actually replaceable on this motherboard. Slots in sorta like the RAM.

I haven't opened this laptop up, yet, but all of the K1100M's and K5100M's that I've seen for sale, have an interface on them like the card in the images I attached. One image shows a K1100M and the other a K5100M.

I was more curious at to whether the Omen Pro 15 has enough cooling capacity and if it could supply enough power to the K5100M. For what it's worth, I saw an Omen Pro 15 for sale "working but just for parts" on Ebay with a GTX 960... so... apparently that's a thing.