Directly after school. How convenient!

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

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!!!

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

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

You have reminded me all of my childhood with this laptop

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

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

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!!.

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

2008 seem like the proper year for hardware my style.

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

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

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

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?”

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.

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

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

Now I really want those Eucalyptus Drops 😅 Great 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.

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.

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

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

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

Excellent as always, Nathan 👍🏻

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.

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

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!

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

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!

Great work ♥️

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 love the content keep up the hard work. Look forward to every upload

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

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

I like all your videos on laptop restoration.

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...

Great video! Funny to see videos like these

Watching this in 2160p 4K nice video!

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

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

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.

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.

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. :)

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

Gosh I love your outro music!

Gave a like for this great video and Fallout New Vegas. Probably the best RPG I played.

Good way to start the morning.

Man id love a laptop like this

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

Really cool pls upload more videos quickly!!!

Eucalyptus gang letsgo

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

Miss those days!

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.

would love this laptop

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.

I suggest using thermal grizzly minus pad for replacing thermal pads, they are awesome.

Nice channel, subbed.

Now I have to go play Battlefront 2, thanks.

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.

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.

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.

just when I started to wonder, what happened to you ? love watching your contents

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

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

Thank you

Good job

Awesome!!

Best Game ever on that thumbnail!!!

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.

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!:)

welcom back bro :))

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

you are legend

I looove your videos! And now I want eucalyptus drops :/

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

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

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. :)

damn it looks good as new

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

that looks like my first laptop. mine was also an asus

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.

niceee 2008 Nov this laptop is totally not older than me

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

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

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

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.

You were the Boss if u had such at that time

0:17 that was smooth

Nice little laptop :-) and love fallout games

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

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

This Laptop was my first when i start learning programing

Wooo! 2008. Gta 4 vibes

New content! Yaaaaas!

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