TechTV How to Build Your Own PC with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton 

God, I really miss Tech TV. it was a great channel about Computers & Technology.

Man...coming of age in the 90s when the computer revolution was hitting its stride...every Sunday I would pull the comics, sports, and ads for all the places that sold computers to see what was new! Then I was SO hyped when our cable provider added TechTV and loved watching this show. The explosion of Gateway, Dell, Alienware, Windows 98, the rebirth of Apple under Steve Jobs, AMD vs. Intel racing to 1GHz processors...SUPER nostalgic about all this stuff when I watch videos like this!

Tears in my eyes.....I miss TechTV so much...nostalgia

It's 2017 and this video is 90% irrelevant information by today's standards but I just watched the entire thing because of how awesome Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton are.

"A fancy new operating system. Windows XP." What a great time to be alive. Love this more than Windows 10.

Oh how times have changed. I feel privileged to have lived through this. And survived.

Techtv. Without this channel I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now.

I remember watching this episode when I was 12 ! I miss TechTV ! Thank you for the upload

My favorite show, that's how I got into computers. Leo and Pat are my Heroes!

I build my first computer because of these guys. I havent stop since then.

Watching this a full TWENTY TWO years past this shows copyright year of 2001 lol LOVE IT!!!

How many of you are still watching this show in 2021 era?!!! And how worth are you know how to build your own PC as today? Just curious... 20 years old episode still solid. Nope, not seeing any SSD but we have now day (especially M.2 SSD aka gum stick size). Salutes to you, Leo and Patrick. Great memorial was this episode. 🖨💻🖥⌨🖱💾💿

What a throwback. I remember building one of my first computers around this time.

I really miss Tech TV., especially The Screen Savers. Thanks for uploading these old episodes.

Wow I remember hard drive jumpers, IDE cables and the good old 3.5 floppy . good times and I miss tech tv. Much love to Leo and Patrick!

I love Techtv!!! The presenters are so cuddly, i used to watch it from the nicest and coldest bungalows and villas! All cuddled up in bed with the AC on 16 degrees, literally freezing because my sister who is a big girl hated getting hot. It was too cold for me yet so cuddly. Thank you!!

I owned a Framit sound board, it was awesome

I'm amazed at how much advice from this video still applies in 2023!

use to love this channel watching it back in the day :(

Nostalgia, such a good thing.

the best show of its kind. hoping they can come back on air soon

Someone tag the verge so they can learn

Man I miss this show. I wish they had another tech chanel or show like this on Netflix or Hulu.

this was a great show!

Miss this show big time- it kept me company working 12 hour shifts in a NOC for a Telecomm company.

Im probably in the minority but i wish technology didn't progress past this point. Life was a good balance of tech and analog back then. Now technology consumes every waking moment of most peoples lives, staring at phones zombie eyed. Talking to alexa. Apps for everything. Games that are rushed unfinished with patches and micro transactions. The internet community now is so jaded and toxic. But the late 90s and early 2000s were the sweet spot for me. We were playing with tech but still living and communicating like humans. This recent generation is so disconnected from reality living on the internet 24/7 its sad.

Amazing how far technology has come since 2001. Wow, 512MB on a single RAM stick???

I miss these days.

I miss this channel. :(

These guys were such great hosts! Played well off each other. How about that huge CRT tv!

In 95 the very first full system I built I didn't know about standoffs. Killed the entire mobo. Stuff was simpler back then. Such small fans and heatsinks. Heck my first PC in 94 had no fan on the CPU. It was a 486sx33. hahah Patrick "6 gig for just the OS?" Man those days were fun. I use a 250 gig ssd for just my OS now. I miss these days the video is from. Most of all I miss my little wife who for 31 years was SO supportive of my PC habit and gaming. She bought me my first pc in 94 and never said never when it came to them. She would buy me a game and tell me to play and enjoy it that the yard would wait or its too hot out there so just game. :) I miss that sweet babe.

That PC could install any OS, "Windows 95, Windows 98 . . .Linux . . but we went with a fancy new OS . . Windows XP!!" Sweet. These guys actually new their stuff pretty darn good for a couple of talking heads.

My son was born watching this show!! he is 18 now!!

2021 flash back. I remember my first ibm clone 1989 and my Macintosh. Dos, lotus 123, dbase ,WordPerfect. Today, I use iPad for everything. Downey California

these guys taught me how to build my own PCs damn i miss this show

I watched the Screen Savers every night!

loved this show. miss tech tv aka g4 which no longer exists.

I miss these guys on in the mornings when Id skip skool...lol

Holy heck, I never knew about tech tv really ( I was too young, and not into tech yet) But as Kris Porello mentioned it in one of this videos yesterday, and I commonly listen to Leo laporte's twit network... I come here and find this video... and Patrick Norton from HD nation is on here too... I am sad that tech tv did not make it.

I used to love watching Screen Savers on TechTV back around 1999 to 2001 --- I was building PCs back then and this show helped me learn a lot --- sadly, after 9/11 it seems they closed shop and became a shitty special interest channel

I bought this tape!

I remember trying to work my way up to a gig stick o ram🤤

If anybody doesn't know you can listen to Leo Laporte every week on the radio when he hosts Leo Laporte the Tech Guy..

Used to watch ZDTV on my grandfathers satellite dish (live in Canada) when I was kid. Even called into the show a couple times. If you're feeling the nostalgia I've uploaded an upscaled copy of the original 640x480 The Screen Savers wallpaper: imgur.com/a/GiyVEV4

My Dad still has this VCR tape. Haha. Its crazy.

I went to Microcenter recently and ask a salesperson where I could find motherboard risers. He was a little puzzled and ask if I was referring to standoffs. I remember everyone used to call them risers. When exactly did they start being called standoffs?

old skool

tnx alot man, good old times, first coment :)

Love this videos !!

Oh god, the Windows Messenger notification noises at the beginning....

My very first full system build I forgot the standoffs and shorted my mobo.

They once showed off a tower that had a pc, xbox, playstation, and I think gamecube all in one. Does anyone know where to find this?

I Love It!

i was in middle school watching this.

Take a shot evey time they say "riser" 🥃😅

I guess cable management of those ketchup and mustard cables were not a thing back then 🤣

Techtv was great, it lost a bit of its soul when it became G4.

Holy shit, Patrick Norton hasn't changed one bit

I really miss when the tech itself was the sexy part, not the blinding light show it's become now. I feel old.

wow it can almost support win 95..

what's that sound at 0:50 and throughout the intro? i recognise it

Great to see my man (Leo Laporte) and Patrick ( more hair then) in this Nostalgic? 12 years ago? Seems longer-- look at the CTR monitor? But the hassle of the construction of a PC here is Fuckin stupid! Why I never did this and no warranty at all! You build you it break it! Still great memories! ;)

Leo Laporte can be seen on his tech network most days of the week at twit.tv (that's the URL) and Patrick Norton is on the computer hardware show at twit.tv/twich

also... peep that sexy kyro 2 vid card ;)

Yep. Serious 2002 vibes. I. ... XP, the invention of the decade. I get that they 'sold a video' for this, but why couldn't it just be a TechTV special. Very odd.

the younger world knows not what they are missing

I miss Leo and Patrick. I wonder where they are now. I know Leo is in the land down under but where in the heck is Patrick. Did he leave the area?

Leo has his own shows on his network TWiT Tv. Check it out

I remember this video. I think it may be a little outdated now.

So that’s how you do that🤔.

get this two to make an updated video on nerdist or something

I think it would be great to plop down a new system in front of them back then. What the hell is this how do you install windows no optical drive

Leo still to this date knows very little about building PC's. Patrick knows what he is talking about.

3:49 "who you gonna to call?"

Never use paper washers lol.

No Swiss Army knife? No nail clippers? Literally unbuildable.

If you can't tell that this video is outdated, you should be as far as possible from computers and the internet.

oooo pricewatch.com... how I miss using you. lol.

90% of this is totally irrelevant but still cool to watch

Sledge hammer was a necessary evil back then.

I can't believe they didn't use a Ryzen CPU! Oh wait, this was 2012....... Never-mind.

256 megs of ram

Chets Shirt

ahhh, the Athlon XP with that absolutely awful method of heatsink installation...

i thought leo was lego

wow....now its esquire channel....with nothing on it except reruns

wow 512 mb

Wait you don't need a pocket knife that (hopefully has a screwdriver)

I am surprised social justice warriors have not demanded we stop calling hard drives masters and slaves.

try twit.tv

Check twit.tv Leo Laporte own the site have lot show..

It's the Twilight Zone! Kind of old...

G4 can go to hell.

TechTv needs a Reboot!!

again leo leporte sucking the life out of pat for his own gain. leo has no idea what he's talking about