When I buy a laptop for $60, I fully expect to get infected with an STD or a respiratory illness. However, the only evidence of Gucc on this gaming laptop from 2016 was a single bird pubes stuck to the fan. Even Heisenberg’s thermal putty is still going strong. And though the hardware is older than your crusty undies, the legendary GTX 1070 has aged like fine wine. So, I think it’s only fair to max out this ASUS to prove why Microsoft’s definition of obsolete is absolute The first step is to dispose of this tiny 120 GB SATA SSD whose size offends my entire bloodline with another SATA SSD that’s 10 times the size. An easy job that requires minimal effort as long as you remember to remove the caddy. But this slow SATA isn’t going to be our boot drive because we have an NVME slot which is exactly 69 times faster. So, after inserting my stick of speed, it’s time to boost the RAM from 12 GB to 32 GB. So, your 300 tabs of 4K Pokémon won’t crash the system. After reinstalling the world’s longest case screws, it’s time to tell Microsoft to eat a bag of dick by bypassing the Windows 11 requirements using good old Roffus. Now’s the time to rename the storage drive to reflect its contents. So, of course, I go with Portition. Next up is a quick speed test on the drive so you can see exactly why NVME is so much faster than SATA. And last up is to check the temps, which means giving it a stress test. Uh, the greatest technician that’s ever lived. So, apparently this 100 watt charger is 80 watts short of what we actually need. something I should have expected