Léoville - Latest Comments in UGM 2008

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Breetai — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:05:19 -0000

WOW I remember thinking I was the big thing when I got the PII 400Mhz. Now My Cell Phone is equvilant to 400Mhz LOL

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Davina — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:08:23 -0000

Leo, been listening since the 80's; I think it is the voice. :) Did you already give away the PC? PC specs link? Putting a system together for someone and wanted to compare choices and components. Thanks! Huggies, Davina

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Martin Waterhouse — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:08:35 -0000

*sigh* The NKVD branch of You-Tube has purged Leo's tech-TV UGM video link above :(

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aamana55 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:38:46 -0000

Now I know why she left the show, what a load.

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James Mowery — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:46:26 -0000

I was more in admiration of your dancing skills than anything, Leo!

It just astounds me how far we have come since then. Perhaps, within the next ten or so years, we will be looking back at the UGM you are putting together now and thinkng that the difference is just beyond outrageous.

128 MB of RAM today is, well, pretty bad, but it can still power some Linux distros. I believe that system had 10 - 20 GB, and I managed to run my Windows computer for a few months with that much a few years ago. (Nowadays, I have about 140 GB of data—minimum—that I bring onto each new system I build.)

The technical achievements are astounding, but I think it is even more impressive how so many people nowadays can geek out with this technology. I love the fact that my friends (and not just me) are beginning to be real tech savvy. (I was always the technology geek back in school.)

It was really cool to see that video though. Brought back great memories. I only began watching TSS when Megan and Patrick were on.

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lurkrbot — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:39:10 -0000

I'm seeing lots of back-and-forth about ddr2 vs ddr3. This is the wrong argument. No one is arguing that ddr3 is needed for performance - what is needed is 790i. There is some evidence that significant performance gains will be seen with triple-sli on 790i. Since no one seems interested in producing a 790i mobo with support for DDR2, and no one cares about how much more expensive DDR3 is (it's the ULTIMATE gaming machine), clearly we should be looking at a 790i w/DDR3 mobo - given that we want triple-sli, which no one seems to be arguing against :)

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Drewzer© — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:12:11 -0000

I miss the screen savers, my FAVORITE show EVER!!! Can you buy them on DVD??

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mikewwill — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:20:34 -0000

hi are you going to put the video on the net i have looked for it and can not find it

Thanks
Mike W W

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Husker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:22:08 -0000

I miss Tech TV. I was a viewer from the very beginning. Twit and Rev 3 gives me my fix. Ok, how do I sign up to win the UGM?

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amazingaaron — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:15:49 -0000

Wow this is before my time watching ZDTV. I think I started watching about 3 months before it became TechTV. I did watch The Site on MSNBC, and loved it. I remember on one episode for the first time seeing someone play Super Mario 64 on the N64, and it looked great LOL. I was however horrible confused for about a week when it went off air, because there was no last show or notice that it was over, so I kept trying to catch it on but it wasn't! :(

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Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:55:38 -0000

Oh how young!

Still, I looked pretty young in 1998 too... ;)

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The Man from R — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:45:39 -0000

Man !!!!!

Just sitting back and Googlinglingling for all my old Friends from ZD-TV, then TechTV, but most of all the Screensavers.

I miss you guys and that show ..... and YES it was a sad sad day when G-what ever bought TechTV and Raped it.

I could name an old Ex-Microsoft Multi-Millionaires name as being greedy and perhaps throwing away the most innovative and fun Tech Shows that has or will ever be televised - - not to mention that he gave the Entire Station to a bunch of Technical Idiots who knew nothing about Prime Tech Television ..... just for the money ...... sad sad sad.

I guess when you are Filthy Rich and don’t have to care about anything or anyone, you would rather go down in history as being a total A-Hole, than be hailed as one of the Greatest Technical Television Geniuses the world has ever known. What a real chip off the old Microsoft Shoulder boy ……

But it is good to see all of you TechTV guys still hammering away in the Technical World.

And I will say it again ..... I MISS YOU GUYS !!!!!!!!!!!

"R is short for Star"

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jbmcb — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:44:04 -0000

DDR3 is nice for overclock-ability. Alienware is selling a quad core gaming machine overclocked to 4GHz using 1600MHz RAM.

I'd also go for a RAID-0 of solid-state hard drives for the system/apps drives on a dedicated LSI controller (we're going all the way here, right?) That would be quite a bit faster for app and system loading which are random-read intensive, which SSDs excel at.

For the big storage, 4 1TB drives are hard to beat, but I'd do a RAID6 that works a lot better with fewer, larger drives than RAID5, which tends to work well with several lower-capacity drives. You'll probably need another LSI controller to do it, though. If you're really going nuts just do a fiber-channel host adapter connected to a SAN.

I'd tack on water cooling for the video cards, chipset, memory and CPU. Probably some cable extenders so you can put this beast in another room or in the basement, it's going to be LOUD. A USB2 DVD+RW drive would be good, too. A nice, big fast-response monitor, I don't think the 30" models are up to par with the smaller units, I think Samsung makes a 27" LCD with a 4ms response time which is pretty good.

For sound (usually overlooked, but very important) I'd stick with a SoundBlaster X-Fi platinum, the drivers are crap but almost every new game takes some advantage of the newer EAX features. I'd wire it straight into a dedicated 7-channel surround amp, driving THX-Select certified Altec Lansing home theater speakers.

For the whole experience, add user input (Logitech G-mouse/keyboard, Microsoft sidewinder mouse, whatever floats your boat.) Custom anthrocart designed to hold all your gaming peripherals. A nice chair, how about an Herman Miller Areon customized to your height and weight?

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Shoutoo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:43:05 -0000

Leo, more videos like that would be great, I personally was not able to watch TechTV until around 2000 -2005 or something like that and a week later well it went off the air on Foxtel... :( it was a sad day

I now own shoutoo.com and would like to sponsor Net@nite please email me or shoutoo.com me....
We will also hopefully be touring the US by early 09.

Thanks
Russell Harrower

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BJ Wanlund — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:59:00 -0000

I miss Kate Botello so much. When will you ever do a gaming podcast with Kate Botello, Leo? Hey, maybe even do the UGM contest through that! I think it'd be awesome!

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JKSoftware — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:37:08 -0000

For the CPU I would go Intel. QX9770 Quad Core Extreme with a ASUS P5N-T Deluxe motherboard. DDR3 has no real advantage at this point in time. There is no real speed increase over DDR2 in cases its slower then DDR2. 4x2GB 1066Mhz DDR2 memory. 2x 300GB WD Raptors RAID 0 + 4 1TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID 5. Windows Vista Ult x64. With 64-bit Vista more ram can be available to games that need it There are more and more games that take advantage of 64-bit Windows. Everything I run from iTunes to games work fine under 64-bit Vista. 2x XFX PVT98UZHEU GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 for QUAD SLI Video.

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Gulfie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:52:05 -0000

Leo, re TWiT 145 and your recommending the Pratchett books - as a British listener to TWiT I felt you could do with a little education on the subject of Nigel Planer. es, he has a great British accent on the audio books but he is also famous as 'Neil' from the 1980's BBC TV series "The Young Ones". Catch this YouTube snippet - Neil is the long-haired hippy character: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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lauren — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:32:01 -0000

You know what's funny is, just yesterday I came upon an ollllld blog post of mine (I am gathering old archives to create a "life stream") where I referenced this very same video. Funny to see it twice in two days. :)

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aac74 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:17:58 -0000

loving disqus comments :)

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BlahRox — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:12:18 -0000

Eight gigabytes of RAM is extremely small for the UGM. You would need something like 32GB for it to be considered elite.

Also 10K RPM is crap compared to the 15K drives that are out on the market.

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alexdude — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:46:08 -0000

Hi Leo,

you look so fresh in that video. :-)

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alexdude — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:45:21 -0000

Leo, you look so fresh :-)

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alex — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:43:45 -0000

Leo, you look so fresh!!

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Igor — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:16:33 -0000

Very nice Mr. Laporte