The amount of VRAM in the discrete graphics, maybe. The rest is not impressive at all. Max amount of RAM, for instance, is pretty standard for the time. Even for machines from 1-2 yr before.
@@BilisNegra this is more of an entertainment laptop from that era, 512mb of vram really doesn't mean much, the nvidia 512mb 210m is better than this chip, which was considered low end discrete graphics in 09. If you were looking for a gaming laptop from this time, you really have to look at the 9600m+ equipped laptops. I have a XPS M1730 which was pretty much the bees knees portable of 2009, with SLI 9800mGT's. My 6800 ultra spec'd XPS m170 from 2005 would probably perform about as good as this in the games he tried. Much more than 4GB RAM wasn't particularly essential as websites weren't so heavy on the javascript, and html 5 didn't exist yet.
@@Garrettdx1988 when people act like a high end machine of the day isn’t high end bc they have something even more high end 🙄 it’s almost like there’s still a hierarchy even within each roughly grouped tier??? Who knew!
1:38 PLEASE listen to this man when he says this! I bought a cooler master pc with an intel core 2 quad off someone on OfferUp and it looked clean both inside and out. A week passed and I started itching my feet a whole lot. I didn’t think much of it. So one more week passed and my whole family started having itchy feet as well. I started investigating and I saw an infestation of bedbugs on the bottom of my bed frame! I remembered about the computer because this started happening after I bought it and because it was next to my bed. I opened the front dust vent and saw a lot of hatched bed bug eggs... we literally had to through out all of our furniture and clothes and fumigate the house to get rid of them. Always clean second hand items!!! Deep inside and out!!!
Yea does days, ( i am from Windows xp era ) but this laptop is totally same (except specs ) as I was having if ur curious it's laptop from 2006. Does days were amazing.
@@creepysmilingcarl9742 Dude modern Windows is so much better, the fact alone that all drivers are basically installed via Windows Update instead of searching drivers on manufacturer site that most often forces bloatware down your throat if you're not careful
Quick advice, it looks like Ubuntu was having a graphics issue, maybe try booting into the Graphics Safe mode and heading into 'Additional Drivers' and seeing if there is one for your graphics in the Laptop
I probably think that he picked a wrong version. I guess the laptop runs on 32bit, while he tried installing a 64bit version (he said the laptop runs on a max. 4GB RAM, max. for 32bit)
@@shadowhuntergmd7059 *certain mobile core 2 duo capable motherboard chipsets There are many Core 2 duo laptops that are able to carry 6 or even 8 GB of ram.
I've got a Vaio desktop replacement machine from 03 with Pentium 4 and it actually runs really cool with a quiet fan speed. I don't think all 2000s machines were that bad.
@Anand Raj It's definitely a Pentium 4, it reports as a Pentium 4 Mobile 3.06ghz. I'm not sure what generation it is though, but I suspect it's Northwood.
This is not exactly true. For example, I have a Dell Latitude D630 from 2007 with a Core 2 Duo that runs at a temperature of around 60 degrees. It never gets hot.
@@memenest468 he was an amazing youtuber who was funny and made great videos but he got caught in 4K (chat logs + video evidence) when trying to meet with a 13 year old. Sad he had to go out that way
Thanks for this throwback! This was my first personal PC back in the day. I started having overheating issues because I didn’t have the technical skills to change the thermal paste. I didn’t even know the CPU was upgradable. Kinda wish I kept it now!
i always watch and wait for the Eucalyptus oil in action.. hehe.. i love all of your content sir. I recently resurrected: 1 dual core Compaq presario.. 1 Eee PC and 1 HP mini.. :) Thanks for inspiring us.
Protip: For old hardened thermal paste I recommend using some wd-40 and leaving it for a bit to soak in. It does a pretty good job at dissolving that crap
I was using an HP G60 as my main laptop (that I took into school) for 9 months until about 1.5 years ago. It was very heavy but it worked and still does!
When Vista came out, I worked at a computer store where one of the services we offered was downgrading back to WinXP. Never had too many issues, except for the odd driver.
My very first laptop was an Asus of similar vintage, perhaps a year or two earlier since mine came with XP (with a voucher for Vista upgrade when released) and a Core Duo (32-bit) and GeForce 7000-series GPU. Saved the money from two birthdays and a Christmas over a year to buy it and be one of the very few students in my highschool with their own laptop. Sure wish I still had it, would bring back a lot of memories. Unfortunately it got a drink spilled on it around 2011, and whilst removing the drive so that I could transfer its contents to another computer, I dropped it. Lost years of collected music, schoolwork, and photos but learned a valuable lesson in keeping regular up-to-date backups.
I have a similar old asus gaming laptop , the heatsink fans were absolutely plugged with dust. I never bothered putting the keyboard and screen back together because the screen was broken . This thing has some pretty impressive specs for a old laptop. The model number is G73JH . Has an old i7 1.6gz that has a factory overclock button to I think nearly 3gz and a radeon 5850 gpu .I like it cause its old an obsolete but still works even though its had a super rough life
Linux was most likely freezing and stuck on a black screen because of a graphics driver issue. You might be able to boot into safe mode or into another menu that allows you to select a graphics driver for your laptop on startup in case the default one doesn't work properly.
2008 was a rough time for Linux on laptops. Lots of hardware was non-standard, diverging from the specs disclosed by the manufacturer. It was basically a crapshoot as to whether a Linux distro would install on anything but a Thinkpad back then. I got lucky, and the Acer I had about that time was very well supported, but it was a very middle of the road machine when it came out. Gaming laptops and other high end machines were the most guilty of the weirdly specced hardware issue.
yes, another laptop restoration video! Cant wait for more, good times when i was playing minecraft in a 2007 laptop, my father had a fujitsu with some type of core 2 duo and had a 256mb gpu oh and 3gb of ram.
OH MY GOD I HAVE A SIMILAR ASUS LAPTOP WHICH WAS ALSO MADE IN 2008!! it was one of the less powerful models that were more "casual" with a pentium dual core and an nvidia 8800 something geforce (and 2gigs of ram, wow!) which ran on windows xp... it has a bulgarian keyboard as iirc it was only sold in eastern europe... but the build quality and such was very similar to this one! thank you so much for this video, even if that laptop is in my closet right now, i'm now using a 2020 asus g14 zephyrus which i'll consider is its grandchild.
It’s amazing that back in the day a single heat pipe can handle the cooling for a higher-end spec CPU and GPU, we’ve definitely crammed far more power into laptops nowadays
Hey Psivewri, for your next video, I reckon you should do a review on an old Ibook Clamshell, those are vintage computers with a reputation for their style. If you happen to find one, I recommend you buy replacement parts for it as the Clamshells commonly have issues.
The Title „Gaming Laptop“ would have been quite optimistic in 2008... considering its poor HD 3470 inside. Even then this was rather mid- to lower end GPU.
Great content!!!!!May i say one thing?, You should not replace pads with thermal paste, the contact might be not so great and over time you will get air pockets. :) Pads are there for a reason:) But this laptop should be fine:) Great retro laptop!:)
I'd love to see what @Psivewri would think of a serious gaming laptop from that era- a Dell XPS M1730. It's a monstrous beast with dual Nvidia GTX 8700s which can be linked with SLI. (I actually have three, one with a dual 9700.) It's basically the bastard love child of an Inspiron 9400 and an Alienware m17. Seriously big and heavy, however.
Nice review of that old 2008 gaming laptop! :) I like the fact that all main components are easily accessible, and that the CPU can be upgraded. That reminds me, I have an old Packard Bell laptop that I might upgrade the Core 2 Duo CPU on. I think it only supports 2GB DDR2 though, which is what I have installed. Also, if using it on the internet, you might want to upgrade the wireless card. Many wireless cards from the Core 2 era were old 802.11g cards which don't provide good speeds. You're better off using an 802.11n or 802.11ac card. :)
I make the same treatment to an asus f9s 12". Geforce 8400g. It is still a solid machine. Suport cpu up to t9500. Ssd+ 4gb. Starcraft 2, even gears of war, bioshock and mass effect runs acceptable.
Nathan! Good to see a video from you again, you were missed! Linux not working, giving up on it and installing Windows instead. That's my Linux experience ;). Wondering why you 're not running Windows 10 on that laptop. Should be fine with 4gb of ram and an SSD. I swapped my Dell E7440 for a Macbook Air M1 and needed 'a laptop 'for Windows, in case I had to help people out on location (also because I know Windows way better) and I got a dell E4300. 4gb of ram, ssd and a P9400 core2duo. Runs WIn10 like a charm.
Its always good to try to flash a later bios when upgrading from a Merom based cpu to a Penryn one. Many times with an old bios the cpu simply won't work. Also, pretty sure the max ram for this thing with the latest bios is 8gb but yeah those are ridiculously expensive modules so forget about that
In retrospect, I'm glad I stuck with XP during the time Vista was the latest Windows version on the market. I remember I got a new Dell laptop in 2010 with Windows 7.
If the PC fails to boot 3-5 times you can factory reset it. just hold the power button as it's booting and repeat this. Works on every windows pc unless the feature is disabled. It should also get around the BIOS password.
Ah yes, the PRO55S, also known as X59SL. I have one, although it needs, among other things, a few fixes: -keyboard is kaput. Dead as a brick -mouse buttons are also bad - needs a display Oh, and an advice for Psivewri: don't ever expect this thing to run Linux properly. I had an unholy amount of headaches with getting mine (while my dad used it, before he finally upgraded to another ASUS, a U36JC) to even work right with the least demanding distro.
I also have the exact same laptop, but be careful of using it while charging because the F5SL/X590SL model overheats a LOT, even with a new thermal paste. Most problems arise from the charging port because of design flaws.
I still have my 2008 Dell Vostro 1700 with a T8300 CPU, 4Gb of RAM, a 8600M GT Graphic card and a 160Gb Intel "X-25M Postville G2" SSD (it replaced the original 250Gb HDD) that I use without any problem when going back to my parents' house. I also added a second 1Tb HDD for good mesure :)
Windows Vista was the best Microsoft os ever released. I were using it with Athlon 4000+, 2GB RAM, ATI X1550 GPU and 250GB of SATA HDD. It was perfect.
Directly after school. How convenient!
It's 11 pm in Germany lmao
@Arden Kablam 7:17 am here
I know right
No school in Australia also 3 hours ago in Australia was 6 am lol (or in South Australia at least)
Its now 6:50AM in South Africa
This things specs we're beastly for 08. I'm kinda impressed.
The amount of VRAM in the discrete graphics, maybe. The rest is not impressive at all. Max amount of RAM, for instance, is pretty standard for the time. Even for machines from 1-2 yr before.
@@BilisNegra this is more of an entertainment laptop from that era, 512mb of vram really doesn't mean much, the nvidia 512mb 210m is better than this chip, which was considered low end discrete graphics in 09. If you were looking for a gaming laptop from this time, you really have to look at the 9600m+ equipped laptops.
I have a XPS M1730 which was pretty much the bees knees portable of 2009, with SLI 9800mGT's. My 6800 ultra spec'd XPS m170 from 2005 would probably perform about as good as this in the games he tried. Much more than 4GB RAM wasn't particularly essential as websites weren't so heavy on the javascript, and html 5 didn't exist yet.
@@BilisNegra You say that like I wasn’t around in 2008 and wouldn’t know. I was 20. I promise you this was a beastly laptop for 2008.
@@Garrettdx1988 when people act like a high end machine of the day isn’t high end bc they have something even more high end 🙄 it’s almost like there’s still a hierarchy even within each roughly grouped tier??? Who knew!
Beastly my ass.
The CPU might be decent, but the GPU is HD 3470, that's dogshit tier.
Man I just love old and powerful technology. I had nostalgia when I looked at the design of this laptop, thank you for this video!!.
1:38 PLEASE listen to this man when he says this! I bought a cooler master pc with an intel core 2 quad off someone on OfferUp and it looked clean both inside and out. A week passed and I started itching my feet a whole lot. I didn’t think much of it. So one more week passed and my whole family started having itchy feet as well. I started investigating and I saw an infestation of bedbugs on the bottom of my bed frame! I remembered about the computer because this started happening after I bought it and because it was next to my bed. I opened the front dust vent and saw a lot of hatched bed bug eggs... we literally had to through out all of our furniture and clothes and fumigate the house to get rid of them. Always clean second hand items!!! Deep inside and out!!!
:0 thanks for the comment
WTFFF
@@FlyboyHelosim shut up.
I feel bad now
Good god. 😐
You have reminded me all of my childhood with this laptop
Yeah, but it was during your vista phase- I’d think you’d be embarrassed
Better than the windows 8/8.1 era
Yea does days, ( i am from Windows xp era ) but this laptop is totally same (except specs ) as I was having if ur curious it's laptop from 2006. Does days were amazing.
Vista...
Childhood....
@@creepysmilingcarl9742 Dude modern Windows is so much better, the fact alone that all drivers are basically installed via Windows Update instead of searching drivers on manufacturer site that most often forces bloatware down your throat if you're not careful
Quick advice, it looks like Ubuntu was having a graphics issue, maybe try booting into the Graphics Safe mode and heading into 'Additional Drivers' and seeing if there is one for your graphics in the Laptop
I probably think that he picked a wrong version. I guess the laptop runs on 32bit, while he tried installing a 64bit version (he said the laptop runs on a max. 4GB RAM, max. for 32bit)
@@strifemusic_ the cpu is 64bit, 4gb was a limit on all laptop core 2 duos
@@shadowhuntergmd7059 *certain mobile core 2 duo capable motherboard chipsets
There are many Core 2 duo laptops that are able to carry 6 or even 8 GB of ram.
@Gaming York must be ddr3 memory then, the core 2 duos on ddr3 supported 8gb, not ddr2
@@shadowhuntergmd7059 I had an old uni body 2009 Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz macbook that I managed to upgrade the ram to 8gb on
One thing of 2000 era laptop known of:
The Heat was too magnificent you could fried something
I've got a Vaio desktop replacement machine from 03 with Pentium 4 and it actually runs really cool with a quiet fan speed. I don't think all 2000s machines were that bad.
@Anand Raj It's definitely a Pentium 4, it reports as a Pentium 4 Mobile 3.06ghz. I'm not sure what generation it is though, but I suspect it's Northwood.
@Anand Raj Ah I thought they all were fairly hot. Thanks for sharing your insight, that’s interesting to learn.
This is not exactly true. For example, I have a Dell Latitude D630 from 2007 with a Core 2 Duo that runs at a temperature of around 60 degrees. It never gets hot.
2008.... retro....
Here I am using my Y500 as daily and a gaming station.
poggers
just stick an egpu in it and you will get over triple of graphics performance (depends on what gpu)
@@Simulation101YT my Y500 already has GT650m in SLI, buying anything more powerful + eGPU enclosure will cost more than a new laptop.
@@harryshuman9637 You won't need an egpu closure
@@harryshuman9637 stick an exp gdc in it, thats what I did
"Considering this laptop is nearly 13 years old"
Edp445 entered the chat
lmfao yes
R.I.P laptop
Who is edp445, i see lot of people talk about him?
@@memenest468 he was an amazing youtuber who was funny and made great videos but he got caught in 4K (chat logs + video evidence) when trying to meet with a 13 year old. Sad he had to go out that way
Bro.... Chill 🤣
please , we need more restoration videos from you, they make me feel calm whenever i watch them, cant wait for the next one... hopefully its soon!
Thanks for this throwback! This was my first personal PC back in the day. I started having overheating issues because I didn’t have the technical skills to change the thermal paste.
I didn’t even know the CPU was upgradable. Kinda wish I kept it now!
it was your first personal personal computer?
@@namanverma1282 Not the exact one he had in the video but yes, I had this model as my first laptop :)
@@nickzuccarelli haha I was just making a silly joke about the redundancy of using "personal" and "PC" together lol
"I don't know the password that's as far as I can get for now"
sure ;)
*sethc.exe enters the chat*
I know this is kinda random but nice pfp!!
Psivewri: I can live without food but I can't live without EUCALYPTUS OIL!!
Now I really want those Eucalyptus Drops 😅
Great video!
i always watch and wait for the Eucalyptus oil in action.. hehe..
i love all of your content sir. I recently resurrected:
1 dual core Compaq presario..
1 Eee PC and
1 HP mini.. :)
Thanks for inspiring us.
Protip: For old hardened thermal paste I recommend using some wd-40 and leaving it for a bit to soak in. It does a pretty good job at dissolving that crap
he uses isopropyl alcohol... and spirits
@@RocketJSykes use plastic to scrape
do not use wd40 for that
wd40 is a penetrating fluid not a cleaning solvent or lubricant
@@JessicaFEREMobviously he’s not saying to use it on the rest of the laptop nor on the hinges, dried up thermal paste can be stubborn asf
2008 seem like the proper year for hardware my style.
I was using an HP G60 as my main laptop (that I took into school) for 9 months until about 1.5 years ago. It was very heavy but it worked and still does!
That laptop was crap for me. Fell apart within a few months and is slow as hell
I got super excited thought Psivewri finally got sponsored by Bosistos in the beginning half I was like its finally happened everyone! good video,
When Vista came out, I worked at a computer store where one of the services we offered was downgrading back to WinXP. Never had too many issues, except for the odd driver.
My very first laptop was an Asus of similar vintage, perhaps a year or two earlier since mine came with XP (with a voucher for Vista upgrade when released) and a Core Duo (32-bit) and GeForce 7000-series GPU. Saved the money from two birthdays and a Christmas over a year to buy it and be one of the very few students in my highschool with their own laptop. Sure wish I still had it, would bring back a lot of memories. Unfortunately it got a drink spilled on it around 2011, and whilst removing the drive so that I could transfer its contents to another computer, I dropped it. Lost years of collected music, schoolwork, and photos but learned a valuable lesson in keeping regular up-to-date backups.
those 8 people who disliked didn't get their dose of eucalyptus oil today, tsk tsk.
Thank you for this video. I have so much nostalgia for laptops from this era.
I like all your videos on laptop restoration.
If you compare that thing with a relatively high end laptop from 2011 you’ll see how fast computer components were evolving
you can also tell by the games released only 2 years after the laptop struggling to run, doesn't happen these days.
Hey psivewri love your videos and better then others. Keep up the good work. Well keep in communication
I love old laptops and Desktops just as much as you do
Imagine if you called Asus before breaking that seal and they said “Yup it’s still covered. What can I do to help you with this device?”
I have a similar old asus gaming laptop , the heatsink fans were absolutely plugged with dust. I never bothered putting the keyboard and screen back together because the screen was broken . This thing has some pretty impressive specs for a old laptop. The model number is G73JH . Has an old i7 1.6gz that has a factory overclock button to I think nearly 3gz and a radeon 5850 gpu .I like it cause its old an obsolete but still works even though its had a super rough life
Linux was most likely freezing and stuck on a black screen because of a graphics driver issue. You might be able to boot into safe mode or into another menu that allows you to select a graphics driver for your laptop on startup in case the default one doesn't work properly.
2008 was a rough time for Linux on laptops. Lots of hardware was non-standard, diverging from the specs disclosed by the manufacturer. It was basically a crapshoot as to whether a Linux distro would install on anything but a Thinkpad back then. I got lucky, and the Acer I had about that time was very well supported, but it was a very middle of the road machine when it came out. Gaming laptops and other high end machines were the most guilty of the weirdly specced hardware issue.
To this day I havent fully repaired similar netbook.
For 2 years
These videos are so satisfying to watch. I wish you posted one every week :)
reminded me of my first laptop which was a R580 by Samsung, ran pretty well and actually still works today after replacing the harddrive.
yes, another laptop restoration video! Cant wait for more, good times when i was playing minecraft in a 2007 laptop, my father had a fujitsu with some type of core 2 duo and had a 256mb gpu oh and 3gb of ram.
I need to get both the oil spray and the drops. Clearly you are doing something right. :)
OH MY GOD I HAVE A SIMILAR ASUS LAPTOP WHICH WAS ALSO MADE IN 2008!! it was one of the less powerful models that were more "casual" with a pentium dual core and an nvidia 8800 something geforce (and 2gigs of ram, wow!) which ran on windows xp... it has a bulgarian keyboard as iirc it was only sold in eastern europe... but the build quality and such was very similar to this one! thank you so much for this video, even if that laptop is in my closet right now, i'm now using a 2020 asus g14 zephyrus which i'll consider is its grandchild.
This laptop looks stellar, as if this has been used 2 months and then packaged for another 13 years, damn!
It’s amazing that back in the day a single heat pipe can handle the cooling for a higher-end spec CPU and GPU, we’ve definitely crammed far more power into laptops nowadays
not really, these old processors still used up over 35W of power
Crazy to see how far PC components in laptop's have come, Hopefully gaming laptops will continue to improve.
Watching this in 2160p 4K nice video!
What it can do in 2021?
Not much for modern games, it can play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), which is a good thing
Hey Psivewri, for your next video, I reckon you should do a review on an old Ibook Clamshell, those are vintage computers with a reputation for their style. If you happen to find one, I recommend you buy replacement parts for it as the Clamshells commonly have issues.
It wouldn't be a Psivewri video without a dose of eucalyptus oil.
So sad to think how far we have fallen in terms of easy-to-repair laptops. Props to Asus for having the CPU, CPU cooler, and Fan so easily accessible.
The Title „Gaming Laptop“ would have been quite optimistic in 2008... considering its poor HD 3470 inside. Even then this was rather mid- to lower end GPU.
It's cool that you use your own compositions as background music. At least it means you don't have to deal with copyright claims...
6:51 That's what Timmy would build his Minecraft house out of.
love these type of videos, you should do a upgrade video on a early 90's pc if you can get one :)
Is it just me or is Nathan smiling a lot more than he used to?
0:17 that was smooth
SW Battlefront 2 (2005) + Fallout New Vegas = Memories ❤️
Great content!!!!!May i say one thing?, You should not replace pads with thermal paste, the contact might be not so great and over time you will get air pockets. :) Pads are there for a reason:) But this laptop should be fine:) Great retro laptop!:)
This laptop's keyboard is a rarity since it's one of very few laptops to have two Windows keys instead of one.
I'd love to see what @Psivewri would think of a serious gaming laptop from that era- a Dell XPS M1730. It's a monstrous beast with dual Nvidia GTX 8700s which can be linked with SLI. (I actually have three, one with a dual 9700.) It's basically the bastard love child of an Inspiron 9400 and an Alienware m17. Seriously big and heavy, however.
I tried to keep it up with you, and ASUS is really amazed...
Nice review of that old 2008 gaming laptop! :) I like the fact that all main components are easily accessible, and that the CPU can be upgraded. That reminds me, I have an old Packard Bell laptop that I might upgrade the Core 2 Duo CPU on. I think it only supports 2GB DDR2 though, which is what I have installed.
Also, if using it on the internet, you might want to upgrade the wireless card. Many wireless cards from the Core 2 era were old 802.11g cards which don't provide good speeds. You're better off using an 802.11n or 802.11ac card. :)
I can't quite believe it. I didn't know graphics cards were like neccessary to much of anything until like 2015.
Gave a like for this great video and Fallout New Vegas. Probably the best RPG I played.
Man id love a laptop like this
niceee 2008 Nov this laptop is totally not older than me
I wish laptops these days were as serviceable as this one. Companies these days really don't want you keeping your hardware for too long.
Excellent as always, Nathan 👍🏻
"Ubuntu 16.4" I apologize for nitpicking, but it's sixteen-point-oh-four.
16.04.
Great work ♥️
Balena Etcher is great for creating a bootable USB drive.
For multiboot, Yumi can enable multiple ISOs on the same drive.
Also Ventoy.
Gosh I love your outro music!
Luv to see some ps2 games running on these using pcsx2
Eucalyptus gang letsgo
Awesome!!
Good Boi, Good Boi...
Good shiba inu *pats on the head*
@@UltraCenterHQ No😭
noone:
literally noone:
psivewri:
Azooce
I make the same treatment to an asus f9s 12". Geforce 8400g. It is still a solid machine. Suport cpu up to t9500. Ssd+ 4gb. Starcraft 2, even gears of war, bioshock and mass effect runs acceptable.
Linux has a bug with dual GPU setups that use Intel and AMD.
I remember selling these when I worked at Dick Smith. Great value laptops but the plastics didn't last to well.
I like that duck from the background.
Nathan! Good to see a video from you again, you were missed!
Linux not working, giving up on it and installing Windows instead. That's my Linux experience ;).
Wondering why you 're not running Windows 10 on that laptop. Should be fine with 4gb of ram and an SSD. I swapped my Dell E7440 for a Macbook Air M1 and needed 'a laptop 'for Windows, in case I had to help people out on location (also because I know Windows way better) and I got a dell E4300. 4gb of ram, ssd and a P9400 core2duo. Runs WIn10 like a charm.
This video is going to be lit.
Its always good to try to flash a later bios when upgrading from a Merom based cpu to a Penryn one. Many times with an old bios the cpu simply won't work.
Also, pretty sure the max ram for this thing with the latest bios is 8gb but yeah those are ridiculously expensive modules so forget about that
I love the content keep up the hard work. Look forward to every upload
In retrospect, I'm glad I stuck with XP during the time Vista was the latest Windows version on the market. I remember I got a new Dell laptop in 2010 with Windows 7.
Wooo! 2008. Gta 4 vibes
Graphic chips from 2008 can only support as top as DX10, which makes perfect sense.
put windows vista back on it and make it nostalgic
Plot twist:- The ''24 months'' warranty is actually only 24 minutes.
If the PC fails to boot 3-5 times you can factory reset it. just hold the power button as it's booting and repeat this. Works on every windows pc unless the feature is disabled. It should also get around the BIOS password.
Now I have to go play Battlefront 2, thanks.
Tip: Ubuntu isn't too light for old laptops, I'd recommend a more lightweight distro like Arch if you wanna.
Ah yes, the PRO55S, also known as X59SL. I have one, although it needs, among other things, a few fixes:
-keyboard is kaput. Dead as a brick
-mouse buttons are also bad
- needs a display
Oh, and an advice for Psivewri: don't ever expect this thing to run Linux properly. I had an unholy amount of headaches with getting mine (while my dad used it, before he finally upgraded to another ASUS, a U36JC) to even work right with the least demanding distro.
4:48 A SIS chipset with Core 2 Duo. That's rare. Probably a last of its kind thing.
I also have the exact same laptop, but be careful of using it while charging because the F5SL/X590SL model overheats a LOT, even with a new thermal paste. Most problems arise from the charging port because of design flaws.
Oh, and if you want to run modern Minecraft, use optifine and turn off all settings in the Radeon Catalyst software.
You were the Boss if u had such at that time
I suggest using thermal grizzly minus pad for replacing thermal pads, they are awesome.
For a 13 years old socond-hand laptop was really clean. His owner has take care of this laptop.
I’m still using a Lenovo G470 with B950 CPU. Updated HDD with SSD and increased RAM to 8 GB. It works pretty well.
A handy tool for changing/checking passwords on most computers with XP/Vista/7 is OPHCrack, helps unlock the computer if you plan to keep the same hdd
Holds up better than my $2000AUD gaming laptop from 2020 ):
Wow. I actually used to have a similar Asus laptop around in 2008-2009. It did Vista alright tbh.
Try getting your hands on an acer aspire 5950g this beast from 2012 still runs games decently
i have a 2011 pc can run games decently as well
I still have my 2008 Dell Vostro 1700 with a T8300 CPU, 4Gb of RAM, a 8600M GT Graphic card and a 160Gb Intel "X-25M Postville G2" SSD (it replaced the original 250Gb HDD) that I use without any problem when going back to my parents' house. I also added a second 1Tb HDD for good mesure :)
Windows Vista was the best Microsoft os ever released. I were using it with Athlon 4000+, 2GB RAM, ATI X1550 GPU and 250GB of SATA HDD. It was perfect.
worst*