Using A Gaming Laptop From 2008!
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- Today I'm going to be restoring and using an old gaming laptop from 2008, the Asus PRO55S. Join me as I clean it up, use plenty of eucalyptus oil and have some fun along the way :) #Laptop #Restoration #Gaming
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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!
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.
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. 😐
Damn a laptop with an upgradable CPU. That's rare yet amazing!
Well, at the time it wasn't so rare
All (most) thinkpads have this feature
You can add 3Ghz cpu and 8GB ram too :D
Laptops with upgradeable CPUs existed until 2015-ish.
most laptops has socketed cpus until 4th gen
"Considering this laptop is nearly 13 years old"
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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 🤣
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
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
Psivewri: I can live without food but I can't live without EUCALYPTUS OIL!!
"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!!
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!!.
2008 seem like the proper year for hardware my style.
those 8 people who disliked didn't get their dose of eucalyptus oil today, tsk tsk.
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
These videos are so satisfying to watch. I wish you posted one every week :)
Thank you for this video. I have so much nostalgia for laptops from this era.
Hey psivewri love your videos and better then others. Keep up the good work. Well keep in communication
I love the content keep up the hard work. Look forward to every upload
Now I really want those Eucalyptus Drops 😅
Great video!
Excellent as always, Nathan 👍🏻
Crazy to see how far PC components in laptop's have come, Hopefully gaming laptops will continue to improve.
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 got super excited thought Psivewri finally got sponsored by Bosistos in the beginning half I was like its finally happened everyone! good video,
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
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?”
love these type of videos, you should do a upgrade video on a early 90's pc if you can get one :)
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.
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.
I love old laptops and Desktops just as much as you do
To this day I havent fully repaired similar netbook.
For 2 years
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
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.
reminded me of my first laptop which was a R580 by Samsung, ran pretty well and actually still works today after replacing the harddrive.
I like all your videos on laptop restoration.
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
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...
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.
Great video! Funny to see videos like these
I need to get both the oil spray and the drops. Clearly you are doing something right. :)
Eucalyptus gang letsgo
Gosh I love your outro music!
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
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. :)
This laptop looks stellar, as if this has been used 2 months and then packaged for another 13 years, damn!
welcom back bro :))
i really enjoy all ur videos. :o so thank you for hours of fun.
by the way you should start using less termal paste >.< hahaha
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
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.
Man id love a laptop like this
Gave a like for this great video and Fallout New Vegas. Probably the best RPG I played.
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.
Watching this in 2160p 4K nice video!
Really cool pls upload more videos quickly!!!
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.
just when I started to wonder, what happened to you ?
love watching your contents
Now I have to go play Battlefront 2, thanks.
Good way to start the morning.
Balena Etcher is great for creating a bootable USB drive.
For multiboot, Yumi can enable multiple ISOs on the same drive.
Also Ventoy.
Nice channel, subbed.
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.
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
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
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.
I’m still using a Lenovo G470 with B950 CPU. Updated HDD with SSD and increased RAM to 8 GB. It works pretty well.
Quick question since I've not had a heck of a lot of luck with this... is there a good source that you know of for identifying which/what CPUs will fit in a given motherboard? Sometimes I can find that on the spec sheet, but not always.
Awesome!!
Good Boi, Good Boi...
Good shiba inu *pats on the head*
@@UltraCenterHQ No😭
would love this laptop
What it can do in 2021?
Not much for modern games, it can play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), which is a good thing
Miss those days!
Best Game ever on that thumbnail!!!
Wow. I actually used to have a similar Asus laptop around in 2008-2009. It did Vista alright tbh.
I suggest using thermal grizzly minus pad for replacing thermal pads, they are awesome.
you are legend
5:05
That made me feel so old
I looove your videos! And now I want eucalyptus drops :/
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!:)
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.
damn it looks good as new
I remember selling these when I worked at Dick Smith. Great value laptops but the plastics didn't last to well.
that looks like my first laptop. mine was also an asus
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
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.
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.
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.
6:51 That's what Timmy would build his Minecraft house out of.
New content! Yaaaaas!
niceee 2008 Nov this laptop is totally not older than me
Good job
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.
Thank you
Love this vid! In the future, tho, I would suggest using a newer version of Linux, as you can get lightweight district based on new versions of Ubuntu. :)
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.
This Laptop was my first when i start learning programing
It wouldn't be a Psivewri video without a dose of eucalyptus oil.
You were the Boss if u had such at that time
Is it just me or is Nathan smiling a lot more than he used to?
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 :)
is this a viable option for a secondary work pc for under 100€? I like these old and quirky tech pieces