Using A Gaming Laptop From 2008!

[@FaddyAlbert]

Directly after school. How convenient!

[@ryanrenolds]

It's 11 pm in Germany lmao

[@jaydenridley4]

@Arden Kablam 7:17 am here

[@peterwesterman2613]

I know right

[@lylampriv]

No school in Australia also 3 hours ago in Australia was 6 am lol (or in South Australia at least)

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Its now 6:50AM in South Africa

[@Garrettdx1988]

This things specs we're beastly for 08. I'm kinda impressed.

[@BilisNegra]

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.

[@julianf0x]

​@@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]

@@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.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@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!

[@frankswhore]

Damn a laptop with an upgradable CPU. That's rare yet amazing!

[@jokubasvelzys3374]

Well, at the time it wasn't so rare

[@Derp12]

All (most) thinkpads have this feature

[@Arturas1244]

You can add 3Ghz cpu and 8GB ram too :D

[@stanb1455]

Laptops with upgradeable CPUs existed until 2015-ish.

[@rarinth]

most laptops has socketed cpus until 4th gen

[@NathanPa-xo3zj]

One thing of 2000 era laptop known of: The Heat was too magnificent you could fried something

[@LordVarkson]

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.

[@LordVarkson]

@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.

[@LordVarkson]

@Anand Raj Ah I thought they all were fairly hot. Thanks for sharing your insight, that’s interesting to learn.

[@anthonymayorgarcia1735]

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!!!

[@user-jg1yn9lm2g]

:0 thanks for the comment

[@ClanOxyL]

WTFFF

[@CoasterMan13Official]

@@FlyboyHelosim shut up.

[@jonathangaul276]

I feel bad now

[@jackwilhelm008]

Good god. 😐

[@kostas.mitropoulos]

You have reminded me all of my childhood with this laptop

[@rossinapail5163]

Yeah, but it was during your vista phase- I’d think you’d be embarrassed

[@triman7039]

Better than the windows 8/8.1 era

[@d3fury312]

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.

[@TheBluntNinja]

Vista... Childhood....

[@loadgamepl]

@@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

[@JackAndersMusic]

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

[@strifemusic_]

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]

@@strifemusic_ the cpu is 64bit, 4gb was a limit on all laptop core 2 duos

[@RFLCPTR]

@@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.

[@shadowhuntergmd7059]

@Gaming York must be ddr3 memory then, the core 2 duos on ddr3 supported 8gb, not ddr2

[@jhylandau]

@@shadowhuntergmd7059 I had an old uni body 2009 Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz macbook that I managed to upgrade the ram to 8gb on

[@rami1207]

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!!.

[@harryshuman9637]

2008.... retro.... Here I am using my Y500 as daily and a gaming station.

[@Simulation101YT]

just stick an egpu in it and you will get over triple of graphics performance (depends on what gpu)

[@harryshuman9637]

@@Simulation101YT my Y500 already has GT650m in SLI, buying anything more powerful + eGPU enclosure will cost more than a new laptop.

[@Simulation101YT]

@@harryshuman9637 You won't need an egpu closure

[@Simulation101YT]

@@harryshuman9637 stick an exp gdc in it, thats what I did

[@harryshuman9637]

@@Simulation101YT I am not keeping an uber expensive piece of electronics exposed to outside environment. It has bad idea written all over it.

[@AshenTiger]

"I don't know the password that's as far as I can get for now" sure ;)

[@windowstips1430]

*sethc.exe enters the chat*

[@Roxxofoxxo]

I know this is kinda random but nice pfp!!

[@massfusion]

"Considering this laptop is nearly 13 years old" Edp445 entered the chat

[@ThatStella7922]

lmfao yes

[@greenleafy6942]

R.I.P laptop

[@memenest468]

Who is edp445, i see lot of people talk about him?

[@ThatStella7922]

@@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

[@linokuma6559]

Bro.... Chill 🤣

[@MrSeba835]

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

[@RocketJSykes]

he uses isopropyl alcohol... and spirits

[@Arturas1244]

@@RocketJSykes use plastic to scrape

[@JessicaFEREM]

do not use wd40 for that wd40 is a penetrating fluid not a cleaning solvent or lubricant

[@MrLoy2009]

Psivewri: I can live without food but I can't live without EUCALYPTUS OIL!!

[@aayushx44]

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!

[@LBSiUK]

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!

[@echonomad94]

That laptop was crap for me. Fell apart within a few months and is slow as hell

[@nickzuccarelli]

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!

[@namanverma1282]

it was your first personal personal computer?

[@nickzuccarelli]

@@namanverma1282 Not the exact one he had in the video but yes, I had this model as my first laptop :)

[@namanverma1282]

@@nickzuccarelli haha I was just making a silly joke about the redundancy of using "personal" and "PC" together lol

[@a.windowsuser]

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.

[@dionelr]

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.

[@MoominBoomin]

those 8 people who disliked didn't get their dose of eucalyptus oil today, tsk tsk.

[@aioi4101]

Now I really want those Eucalyptus Drops 😅 Great video!

[@enoll218]

If you compare that thing with a relatively high end laptop from 2011 you’ll see how fast computer components were evolving

[@acanofspam4347]

you can also tell by the games released only 2 years after the laptop struggling to run, doesn't happen these days.

[@GraySlicerAnimations]

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?”

[@CesareVesdani]

I like all your videos on laptop restoration.

[@gitaristangblackandwhite392]

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.

[@ClanOxyL]

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

[@cyberp0et]

2008 seem like the proper year for hardware my style.

[@Chrishy_Art]

reminded me of my first laptop which was a R580 by Samsung, ran pretty well and actually still works today after replacing the harddrive.

[@NoobixCube]

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.

[@lazycomicgamer2313]

I got super excited thought Psivewri finally got sponsored by Bosistos in the beginning half I was like its finally happened everyone! good video,

[@W1ldTangent]

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.

[@kj11dot2]

I had same laptop and same problem with linux. Windows worked perfectly fine. I even tried safe garphics boot on linux, different ram, different hdd and still no luck

[@luisfelipegonzalez4423]

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.

[@technoWZ5598]

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.

[@windestruct]

To this day I havent fully repaired similar netbook. For 2 years

[@Voidgazen]

Thank you for this video. I have so much nostalgia for laptops from this era.

[@adelinadimitrova1806]

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.

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

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

[@gabrielserrano9054]

Hey psivewri love your videos and better then others. Keep up the good work. Well keep in communication

[@frankieiero6859]

Eucalyptus gang letsgo

[@johnruschmeyer5769]

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.

[@NeoGeo822]

Crazy to see how far PC components in laptop's have come, Hopefully gaming laptops will continue to improve.

[@dangerousmythbuster]

Now I have to go play Battlefront 2, thanks.

[@Oweblow]

6:51 That's what Timmy would build his Minecraft house out of.

[@Nitrodozer]

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.

[@Ayoke]

This laptop looks stellar, as if this has been used 2 months and then packaged for another 13 years, damn!

[@ChaseMC215]

What it can do in 2021? Not much for modern games, it can play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), which is a good thing

[@warwagon]

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.

[@canaan_perry]

Still using a Toshiba Tecra from 2008 today. Dual Core Pentium, has had an SSD upgrade and only supports 4gb of ram but it works great to this day running Win 10. Chunky laptop though.

[@rodrigo4379]

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.

[@mjl4423474]

I remember selling these when I worked at Dick Smith. Great value laptops but the plastics didn't last to well.

[@kztech1319]

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

[@Gadgetman1989]

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

[@mandude83]

I just purchased a 2008 gaming laptop with an intel extreme core 2 duo t9400 2.53mhz cpu, 8gb ram and a geforce 280gtx. Im hoping that by going full power from that era I might get some good results for retro games dating 2000 to 2007. Unfortunately it shipped with Windows 10, would have preferred 7. But for just over 100 quid I couldn't say no.

[@ivorybarksdale6780]

I love old laptops and Desktops just as much as you do

[@mihxqvi7288]

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.

[@mihxqvi7288]

Oh, and if you want to run modern Minecraft, use optifine and turn off all settings in the Radeon Catalyst software.

[@doge_boy7102]

Awesome!!

[@BenyaminLimanto]

Good Boi, Good Boi...

[@Kamii_Kaze]

Good shiba inu *pats on the head*

[@doge_boy7102]

@@UltraCenterHQ No😭

[@typerightseesight]

I can't quite believe it. I didn't know graphics cards were like neccessary to much of anything until like 2015.

[@supidowagon6174]

These videos are so satisfying to watch. I wish you posted one every week :)

[@gxhst1]

niceee 2008 Nov this laptop is totally not older than me

[@TheSpotify95]

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. :)

[@bonzaibush4391]

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 :)

[@JTD121]

For taking the password off these used computers, there is a program called NTPasswd that generally works up to Windows 10, if it's not encrypted. Beware, this is a CLI tool, rather than a GUI, but there are GUI versions that do the same thing out there. Amazon sells them for like $25 and seem to work as well as NTPasswd (which is free).

[@carltonleboss]

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...

[@Vedant9710]

Watching this in 2160p 4K nice video!

[@LeslieLanagan]

I need to get both the oil spray and the drops. Clearly you are doing something right. :)

[@fedepetit]

I’m still using a Lenovo G470 with B950 CPU. Updated HDD with SSD and increased RAM to 8 GB. It works pretty well.

[@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094]

It wouldn't be a Psivewri video without a dose of eucalyptus oil.

[@_MrToast_]

I used that badboy to play Minecraft back in ~2011/12. Still have it laying around. But i can't find the powercord anymore 😅

[@MrMeowNow]

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!:)

[@gamerkhan2693]

Luv to see some ps2 games running on these using pcsx2

[@cristianovescia6406]

SW Battlefront 2 (2005) + Fallout New Vegas = Memories ❤️

[@deimantaskivilius8483]

Try getting your hands on an acer aspire 5950g this beast from 2012 still runs games decently

[@codesavage3763]

i have a 2011 pc can run games decently as well

[@sugargliderdude]

love these type of videos, you should do a upgrade video on a early 90's pc if you can get one :)

[@ningyuanwang600]

4:48 A SIS chipset with Core 2 Duo. That's rare. Probably a last of its kind thing.

[@cyberp0et]

Balena Etcher is great for creating a bootable USB drive. For multiboot, Yumi can enable multiple ISOs on the same drive. Also Ventoy.

[@sali-ali]

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.

[@tengounsocket775]

worst*

[@luisfelipegonzalez4423]

I restored an asus f9s from the same year. Yograde ram, cpu and win10 works increduble

[@s_aku]

You should've tried Linux Lite it works really good on old laptops!

[@sgeggbub1008]

noone: literally noone: psivewri: Azooce

[@What_The_Fuck_Did_I_Just_Watch]

Miss those days!

[@stefangherman8408]

I like that duck from the background.

[@porziellad1488]

i had a packbell laptop from 2007 with a geforce 512mb gpu , i played all crysis 2007 on that with 20 25 fps , and minecraft until 2013

[@TarlZaralka]

Why aren't you sponsored by Bosisto's yet? Seriously your videos are the reason I buy the stuff and I loved it, that shit works great for cleaning electronics.

[@sgirix65]

He's already sponsored by them, he mentioned in his video few months ago

[@captainshakesbeard9867]

Man id love a laptop like this

[@joeyhillers9460]

I’ve been using a mid 2009 MBP and yeah, these core 2 duo laptops still got it for basic use

[@syndi3916]

Tip: Ubuntu isn't too light for old laptops, I'd recommend a more lightweight distro like Arch if you wanna.

[@defmarco]

Wonderful video to see the notebook like this. I have exactly the same model here laying next to me full of stickers, slow as hell, trying to save some data off it. But for some reason it doesn't boot anymore. After 2 seconds of pushing the power button it does click-click and goes off. Maybe someone has an idea about how to fix that.

[@matteomantovanelli8179]

In 2008 my gaming laptop was Acer Aspire 8930G with 18" display FullHD!!

[@filledwithvariousknowledge1065]

Since it’s Windows 7 Enterprise, the laptop is eligible for the paid ESU until 2023 when it ends. It’ll be worth it to keep up with security and is half the price vs Windows 7 Pro which also is eligible

[@angryshoebox]

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.

[@XXXXLance]

Please...PLEASE!! do before and after comparison! Benchmark before would tell us a lot! And booting time comparison!

[@2007excalibur2007]

Honestly after watching some of his videos, it's clear that he never really wants to touch on the technical side of things. As long as the hardware's vintage and that he can clean it up and get it to work like new, that's all that matters to him. Apparently.

[@user-jm3ti1kg8n]

Great work ♥️

[@baileyr7553]

Wow. I actually used to have a similar Asus laptop around in 2008-2009. It did Vista alright tbh.

[@TragicAyk]

Is it just me or is Nathan smiling a lot more than he used to?

[@decm8]

Wooo! 2008. Gta 4 vibes

[@lukask4937]

i have a laptop with a t9900. and man that thing gets HOT. Runs league to

[@addmd_]

You might be able to put a hd 5000m series card in there.

[@its_aidan]

I have a dell inspiron 1545 from 2009 and it can run Minecraft very well. I have upgraded it to 4 gb of ram and I’m getting a core 2 duo t9800 to put in it

[@andresbravo2003]

I tried to keep it up with you, and ASUS is really amazed...

[@FandyME]

5:05 That made me feel so old