The Ultimate Asus Lamborghini Laptop From 2007!

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I was kindly given a free Asus VX2S Lamborghini gaming laptop from 2007! It was originally insanely expensive, even including a HD-DVD drive and a stitched leather palm rest! But is this old gaming laptop from 16 years ago still usable today? Let's find out #retro #laptop #opera
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Asus Lamborghini VX2S Specifications:
Intel T7500 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU
15.4" 1680x1050 Glossy Display
512MB Nvidia 8600M GT Discrete Graphics
HD-DVD Drive
4GB DDR2 667MHz Ram (After upgrade)

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@psivewri 5 ай бұрын

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@1sola 5 ай бұрын

@yourneighbourhooddoomer 5 ай бұрын

@scellyyt 5 ай бұрын

Literal chinese spyware

@jamesdriver0317 5 ай бұрын

I already have Opera GX on my Windows PC and my iPhone 7

@szklanka67 5 ай бұрын

chinese spyware

@JoCaTen 5 ай бұрын

2000s laptops really had some interesting designs, they were mostly unique. Really nostalgic too

@Pilpup 5 ай бұрын

Make sure you spray that nostalgia in eucalyptus oil.

@Brato1986 3 ай бұрын

Also phones, today everything is converging to the same design, nothing unique.

@JoCaTen 3 ай бұрын

@@Brato1986 don't even get me started on the phones. Every phone was different, every phone had a different design and varied in features. Back when you had to learn every new phone of yours. Now it's all the same, just a big slab of screen and some cameras. Only thing you have to learn is the UI based on the manufacturer. Either a Xiaomi with the MIUI or HyperOS, Apple's IOS, Samsung's OneUI etc.

@dsteward85 2 ай бұрын

I agree. Devices back then gave off more of an allure. Now, its the same thin housing with a bunch of components squashed inside.

@TamFishe 5 ай бұрын

I usually skip sponsorships but this one made me smile. No offense for skipping sponsorships though. I like the creativity you had with Santa here Nathan 👍

@FlintG 5 ай бұрын

Yup that one was for sure worth the watch lol.

@techbro2007 5 ай бұрын

I like how a drive labeled with "LINUX MINT" actually has Windows Vista.

@ranjanbiswas3233 3 ай бұрын

It's for hiding the fact that it has Vista.

@techbro2007 3 ай бұрын

@@ranjanbiswas3233 lmao

@CharlesBluTheXPicturesInc Ай бұрын

Turned Windows 7 Install Drive Into Snow Leopard Installer!

@BilisNegra 5 ай бұрын

HDMI is kind of uncommon for a 2007 notebook, but a laptop format HD DVD drive is SUCH a rarity! I didn't even know those existed, and I wouldn't be surprised if they sold for a hefty price in working order for historic significance.

@smartninja3651 5 ай бұрын

My 2014 Inspiron has a DVD drive

@JTPM 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for an amazing year of tech videos! I loved your car repairs (: Merry Christmas!!!

@anthony.e.b 5 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you! Good luck setting everything up for your new studio! Can't wait to see what's next 🔥

@jonrutherford6852 4 ай бұрын

Just a note of gratitude for your ultra-clear narration. I've watched thousands of mainly tech- and science-related KZfaq videos, and in terms of narration yours are very near the top. Every word intelligible -- even to these 84-year-old American ears. With a fairly severe hearing impairment (due to trauma as well as normal aging), clarity is very much appreciated. Content is always enjoyable as well! Thanks.

@lun8ry 5 ай бұрын

Been using Arctic thermal pastes for years now, best price to performance ratio available on the market IMO. MX 6 is my personal choice for the best, but I would imagine any of them will serve you well. Great video! Edit: Typo, additional clarification

@TheSpotify95 5 ай бұрын

Didn't even know they did MX-8 now! I have some MX2 for budget stuff, MX4 as a general purpose paste, and MX6 for high performance stuff. Might look out for some MX8 if it is close in price to MX6.

@consensus688 5 ай бұрын

Just avoid the included cleaning wipe if you're sensitive to smells though

@lun8ry 5 ай бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 MB - I completely messed up. I meant to say MX 6, but for some reason, my brain began to think about the car, the Mazda RX-8 (don't ask, IDK either). Still stand by Arctic being the best overall though.

@TheSpotify95 5 ай бұрын

@@lun8ry yeah I had a look and didn't see any MX-8 thermal paste, so at least I know I'm using the best Arctic paste by using the MX-6 for high performance applications. :)

@brandon_nope 5 ай бұрын

Isn’t MX-6 more difficult to remove?

@michaelhall736 5 ай бұрын

Now this something I like to see. No fake restos, acting like they found it in covered in mud in their backyard by chance. Just a relaxing video of an honest young man doing legit restos.

@balthasarking8570 4 ай бұрын

I had an Acer Ferrari One back in 2010, it claimed to be the first dual-core netbook and had 4GB ram, quite a powerful little machine for the time.

@Rivenworld 5 ай бұрын

Great video, Merry Christmas mate and a Happy New Year.

@Sassymouse88 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Santawri! Wishing you & the Psive fam a merry Christmas & and happy NY! 🎉🎄

@nathan_tasker 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Nathan. I am happy to hear that the house build is going well. Have a great day and a happy New Year.

@user-jm3ti1kg8n 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and happy New ❤ true legendary man never forgot ❤

@georgesenda1952 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your family. Your great videos help me get through times good and bad. The last part of this year has been terrible. I will be glad when 2023 is over.

@MZRFaith 5 ай бұрын

Nothing is changing it’s all just a mental game my friend 2024 is 2023 nothing different

@jponz85 5 ай бұрын

@@MZRFaith💯 exactly

@georgesenda1952 5 ай бұрын

@@MZRFaith I had COVID in 2022 and recovered. Now I have bronchitis & sleep on the floor because my bed frame collapsed. The one bright thing is that in 2024 I will have paid off ALL my credit accounts & will go to Vegas & buy my own apartment building & be off of SSI.

@kakakiri2601 5 ай бұрын

I always like this channel, so calming

@dwaynethomas9265 5 ай бұрын

Finnaly I was waiting for this video 🎉❤

@moe_1886 5 ай бұрын

I had the Asus G1 at the time and remember this one being released and wanting it so bad! 🤣 I never got it, but almost upgraded to the G1S, but in the end, the G1 served me well for quite a while. Eventually the battery stopped holding charge and being a TA, I didn't bother getting a new battery, so had it plugged into the brick 24/7. After that, the ribbon cable for the screen started failing, so it was then hooked up to a monitor and then it after about 8yrs, it was just too slow and old tech, and was sadly retired. Thanks for the video (and memory trip) Psivewri. Merry Christmas Mate.

@memonrunescape 5 ай бұрын

I'd invest in a sheet on PTM 7950, would be great for this type of application and wouldn't dry or pump out like traditional TIMs.

@Nuka_Kitty 5 ай бұрын

always a good day when Psivewri uploads a video

@user-jm3ti1kg8n 4 ай бұрын

Great work true legendary man never forgot to ❤

@LucaBlightOfHighland 5 ай бұрын

What a fantastic piece for the collection.

@donkey1331 5 ай бұрын

Love your videos!

@jjjacer 5 ай бұрын

I have an Asus ROG from a similar time period and almost similar design, its biggest issue was heat as the GPU got really hot and would glitch out after a while, had to modify it for better airflow as the grill on the bottom was fake (on yours its what looks like the wheel rim), so it drew air from tiny vents over the bottom. so i cut out the fake grill and pit some wire mesh in its place and it helped (although still over heats even after cleaning an new thermal paste but not as bad or as fast as before)

@HungryManticore 5 ай бұрын

If I were you, I'd back up my game discs and install games from ISOs! It would be a shame if your discs broke. Merry Christmas!

@mememe37 5 ай бұрын

That was my dream laptop when I was eleven, thanks for the video!

@j.w.techchannel 5 ай бұрын

Very good video on an obscure laptop. Also enjoyed the sponsorship segment, lol.

@asc911carerra 5 ай бұрын

Happy Christmas mate....

@tomguder 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Zebra_Paw 5 ай бұрын

Glad to see you're installing as many drivers as you can! I'm the kinda guy who gets outraged when a driver is missing 😂even for a PCI bridge Out of thermal paste only now since your first video mentioning Arctic MX 4? If a single syringe lasted you that long you need to fix more computers! I would try MX 6 next.

@TheSwagza 5 ай бұрын

Important information! Opera is a Chinese company even though they say on their website that they are American. It might collect data from its users so I wouldn’t recommend downloading it.

@llcooljay66 5 ай бұрын

Thank you I really wanted to see the truck first “owner” video

@queenmarynovelwriter5397 5 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays.

@alisonsmith4436 5 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

@zakarylakota 5 ай бұрын

I’ve never been this early! Happy holidays!

@itisliamhfjone22 5 ай бұрын

Cool video! Lamborghini's are cool

@derdummeasi 5 ай бұрын

Great watch ;)

@KhaltoTheCollie 5 ай бұрын

I've been using Noctua NT-H1 paste for a decent amount of time now and i've never had any issues with it

@kaitlyn__L 5 ай бұрын

Cute icon! That’s one of my favourite colour schemes, blue fur with white mask/snout.

@JJ.IceFish 5 ай бұрын

I recommend gelid due to the “pump-out” alot of other thermal pastes have on direct die chips like on laptops

@marctv203 5 ай бұрын

merry christmas :)

@felitsu3772 5 ай бұрын

Hey there! One thing I'd like to recommend when you're buying a "refurbished" used or second hand device is to shine a UV light on it before touching it, there may be mysterious bodily fluids all over the pre loved device so you do know when to use gloves or not :D

@gugajedi 5 ай бұрын

Will you put the build steps of your new studio here so we can also check it out? I'm kind of anxious to see it...

@Aduke95 5 ай бұрын

Instead of Arctic, can use liquid metal if you know how to apply it. Maybe best component for improvement will be usable. But that's a theory For original Farcry, 2 possibilities : Upgrade to Patch version 1.40 if not done or there is a EXE compatible and compile for 64bit systems. Can give it a try, still work for Windows 11 in my case. Great video as always 😀

@ianwilson3935 5 ай бұрын

I had the Asus VX7 Lamborghini variant. Was very fast for its day.

@HansCCT_Gaming 5 ай бұрын

I got the top speck model of this, bought it second hand a few years back

@BruisersBeaters 5 ай бұрын

Oh my lord LOL. I forgot these existed! I had a friend back in 07 I called Mister Money Bags (in jest), he was well off but a damn cool person. He had one of these brand spankin new out of the box. This was a hot piece of tech in 2007. Sitting with it a couple times in my lap playing games when he was over, wow this was the SHIZZZZ

@BradThomasJ 5 ай бұрын

Should try and get your hands on the Ferrari One laptop that acer also did! I had one when I was younger, was a pretty good spec for the size at the time

@technoWZ5598 5 ай бұрын

I've got an idea, how about buying and restoring an old desktop like a HP Z series workstation or a server? That would make for an interesting video!

@12100F 5 ай бұрын

I love Nocua NT-H2. Easy to use, good performance, and low price.

@jameschoy6305 5 ай бұрын

I should suggest using phase change pad for pasting. eg one from Honeywell

@KrissBartlett 5 ай бұрын

hahaha your santa very funny stuff nice laptop never seen one like that before thanks for showing us Merry Christmas to you nad your family

@mmartti2k116 5 ай бұрын

With Legacy Update, you could not only install all the updates to 2000/xp/vista etc but you can actually activate old windows online again! You should give it a try.

@grandtheftauto1233 5 ай бұрын

MX4 is tried and true - I’d get the same thermal paste if you’re happy with the results.

@caprature 5 ай бұрын

Wakefield thermal compound. You can get it in a tub very cheap. It comes in a very large amount for commercial applications. And can be had for a 20$ or so.

@KennedoMaker 5 ай бұрын

Genuinely recommend Thermalright TFX paste due to its viscosity and cheap price when used on gaming laptops. That thermal paste barely experiences pumpout with mobile chipset coolers and their mounting pressures used.

@UItEnthusiast 5 ай бұрын

If you want the best paste on the market, I strongly recommend Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. It's a German paste that leads other pastes like Arctic MX-4 and Noctua NT-H2 by a few degrees in most instances.

@PurblePink8678 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely want one of these Asus laptops!

@MaximumRD 5 ай бұрын

Not even a "car" guy but I wanted this back in the day! 😆

@TheSpotify95 5 ай бұрын

Nice laptop, now that is a premium laptop from the days of old! As you state, the Core 2 Duo and DDR2 RAM will be quite limiting, and I may have opted to go for either Windows XP or Windows 7 as Vista was rather unloved. Still, it had a HD DVD drive (!), which is more than what can be said for any modern laptop or desktop. Also, as far as thermal paste goes, I still recommend the Arctic MX-4, I grabbed a rather large 20g tube of it which will do the job quite nicely. For high performance stuff, such as my HP OMEN laptop and my custom desktop PC, I use Arctic MX-6, whereas for less important stuff (such as older laptops, and laptops less critical to temperatures) I use Arctic MX-2. Though ultimately, so long as you don't use the cheapest Chinese paste, it should be fine.

@tennickjestzajety69 5 ай бұрын

it depends where you live - i use often SilentiumPC Pactum PT-1, mediocre compound, but generally always better than old, dried. and it is extremely cheap, around 4-5 eur for 4g tube

@2048Megabytes. 5 ай бұрын

Oh it’s Spotify95

@TheSpotify95 5 ай бұрын

@@tennickjestzajety69 Given that you can get a 20g tube of MX-4 for about £13 it makes no sense for me to use the cheapest paste. Though as you say, any paste is better than horrid, old, dried out paste that isn't doing its job at all.

@allesbelegt 5 ай бұрын

Would be interesting to see, how the performance of the tested games is, when the laptop runs with windows xp and on a linux distro via wine. Also: With the latest bios, it will also run the mobile Penryn based Core 2 Duo.

@mikuoctoling 5 ай бұрын

Clint from LGR already did a full review on it last year

@birbv 5 ай бұрын

There is a program called Legacy Update that will let you activate windows versions down to windows 2000, as well as patch a bunch of other things

@serhiirudenko6183 5 ай бұрын

I tried to use Arctic MX4 thermal paste on the laptops, and it didnt work well for me. after a week or so it was getting thin under a small silicone chip and temperatures was very high. The same paste works well for a desktop CPU with a heat spreader. So for laptops I much prefer Thermal Grizzly. Even their not expensive paste works well.

@richardestes6499 5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the Acer Ferrari that LGR covered.

@MUSiCK9 5 ай бұрын

Gelid and Noctua thermal pastes is generally pretty good in my experience

@reiayanami1441 5 ай бұрын

i have a strong fever, i'm watching yours video to cope with the pain, thanks

@hrr597 5 ай бұрын

LGR also made a video on this laptop as well

@ChaseMC215 5 ай бұрын

Clint did an entire video covering this laptop. He even mentioned how the wheel on the "fan grill" isn't the wheel from the car the laptop launched alomgside with (the Lamborgini Superleggera) but rather from the base model version of the Lamborgini Gallardo, but hey, they tried. And I did put fan grill in quotes because it isn't a real fan grill, it's more of a fan cover. Whoop.

@dannyvanmoeffaert4744 5 ай бұрын

For thermal paste, I've been using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme for a while now, it works very good

@Zebra_Paw 5 ай бұрын

just too expensive and the value for money isn't there

@emdotrod 5 ай бұрын

This and Acer Ferrari laptops are basically my childhood dream

@jrd2007 5 ай бұрын

i love opera but if they add in all of the small features of edge and chrome i will for sure switch over to it

@Binsonhope 5 ай бұрын

haha cant believe the phone method still works!

@cl1kz93 5 ай бұрын

I love these car laptops they are so funny to me

@ruanrossouw9209 5 ай бұрын

I work in an I.T shop,i would recommend Coolermaster Cryofuze.

@marcusellby 5 ай бұрын

I had an Acer Ferrari laptop which I upgraded the cpu on. Memories 😄

@DmitriyDarkJoney 5 ай бұрын

Hey, what might be the bosistos alternative that can be purchased in Europe?

@cantliff9 5 ай бұрын

REFUS is a good piece of software for creating ISOs - its completely free also

@abdelali9279 5 ай бұрын

TBH I don't like the aesthetics of laptops from the 2000s (except from Apple), but these super car branded laptops are great because of their premium materials and designs that evoque the cars of the manufacturer, and definitely not because they run on vista, I remember LGR reviewing a Ferrari Acer laptop that had a real carbon fiber top as well, they're some lookers to be sure.

@raxxmoriti 19 күн бұрын

I use opera on my personal computer, no issues found there

@Omegas_Tech 5 ай бұрын

If you're looking for good Thermal Paste Personally I would go with Kingpin KPx because I tried MX4 and its not good at all.

@glebs. 5 ай бұрын

Noctua NT-H2 is one of the best thermal pastes.

@stilllmkp 5 ай бұрын

psive i need a video of you throwing it back

@crestofhonor2349 5 ай бұрын

Honeywell PTM7950 is some very nice thermal solution

@SilverX95 5 ай бұрын

should replace the cpu with a T9500 or T9300 so it has more Level 2 cache and SSE 4.1 also a smaller 45nm Manufacturing process then the 65nm of the t7500

@LeslieLanagan 5 ай бұрын

That kind of machine would be perfect for retro gaming, because it's got a beefier gfx card than most laptops. I'd take an old NVIDIA over an AMD or Intel HD integrated setup any day. I also don't game much, and I'll bet that a lightweight version of Linux and things like LibreOffice would run just fine. If that machine can handle Vista, it can handle MATE or Cinnamon.

@InterlacedTech 5 ай бұрын

and I'm early as usual. Good day Psivewri!

@jasmijndekkers 5 ай бұрын

nice laptop. Merry Christmas for you and your family. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

@watercolourbynumbers 5 ай бұрын

Christmas Eve viewing.

@lucaskroger3451 5 ай бұрын

I don't see many people doing that, but it would be very interesting if you built a sleeper PC using that laptop

@Ahmedhhasn 5 ай бұрын

babe wake up, Psivewri uploaded a video

@fernandoz6329 5 ай бұрын

Somehow similar internally to the HP 8510w which used T9500

@theshadowman1398 5 ай бұрын

An HD-DVD drive. What a time capsule

@NguyenHoang-pv2xd 5 ай бұрын

you should try dual boot Windows Vista Extended Kernel & Linux OS in Asus Lamborghini

@dwindeyer 5 ай бұрын

At the time this came out, I bought an Asus EeePC 701 4G

@FlakerGamer 5 ай бұрын

now i see the computer of the vista AD

@jarulezulu4672 5 ай бұрын

Nice Man didnt know it exsited even 😅

@neptoniumblue 5 ай бұрын

This video got me thinking about my ASUS Rog G75VW laptop from 2012. Should I keep it, or sell it?

@thegotfatter1444 5 ай бұрын

Whats the btand of lens cleaner you use

@zGiacometzTM 5 ай бұрын

Come to Italy in Bologna i will bring you to the Lamborghini factory!