Upgrading an old ASUS F8Sn-C1

So, I recently dug out my older brother's very first laptop - an ASUS F8Sn-C1 that was left to rot in a closet back in mid-2010 since the screen supposedly died and stopped displaying anything. I wanted to see if there was anything useful left on it, so I hooked it up to my BRAVIA TV with a VGA cable. It worked just fine on the TV, but then something odd happened. The connection glitched shortly after, displaying a garbled mess on screen, so I jiggled the cable around as well as taking it out and plugging it back in.

Then something peculiar happened when I restarted the laptop - the screen suddenly burst back into life again! Apart from the slightly sepia tone look to the screen, it seems perfectly healthy again.
It "resurrected" itself, for all I know...

There's definitely quite some life left in this machine, especially with some new hardware - it seems my brother swapped in a Core 2 Extreme X9000 back in the day. The GPU is still the stock one though (an Nvidia 9500M GS).

Apart from the standard RAM and SSD upgrades, are there any feasible GPU upgrades to this laptop? It's socketed as well, so there could be something out there that I could use. I'm guessing a repasting and fan cleaning is order as well - this thing does run pretty warm.

Any old or even current F8 owners willing to help me out?

 

You may want to take a look at the GPU and compare it to a regular MXM socket. Asus often likes to use a proprietary slot so other cards don't physically fit.

 

They also like to move the vbios to the system bios too.

In this case it's flipped with a custom mount even other asus cards used so no luck there.