You can however get a great boost on Trinity AMD APUs by installing a pair of RAM sticks.
Crucial.com has that.
You can boost overall performance with a SSD.
As to changing the OS, if you read up on that, please don't. Most folk are not ready for what happens next. And no one I know will write a step by step today.
Bob
I'm a beginner when it comes to upgrading laptops/computers and knowing differences in power and speed. I have an hp pavilion laptop with a AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 graphics @ 2.00 GHZ, 4GB of RAM and a 64 bit operating system. So i just want to know what kind of processor and RAM to get and suggestions on where to buy them for decent gaming. I don't need the best just something that is good for like DayZ and games alike thanks.

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