A visit to the AMD Tech Tour 2002
by Marty Wall

I got a chance to cover the Team AMD Tech Tour in Seattle Washington for Guru3D thanks to my long time friend Sean who owns a local computer shop. Since this was a private conference, not open to the public, and was for members of the AMD system builders program all I could say was you're the man Sean!

It was Tuesday the 21 1:30 pm Sean and my friend Rockogre showed up at my house. Sean was late as he always is, tires squealing and rubber burning we were off on our 120 mile road trip.

The Team AMD Tech Tour is made out of two parts. The first is the vendor show, where the company Rep's showed off their products, and the second part is the AMD conference. We will start out with the vendor show. There was a lot of vendors in this part of the tour I will cover some of the important ones. When you walk into a vendor show basically you'll see this ...

I was in the middle of the room when I took this picture the place was packed and I said "crap" how the heck am I going to get pictures or even talk to the company representatives. Well I did not come all this way to go away empty handed so I started telling people who I was and what I wanted. That did the trick, when the reps found out I wanted to take some pictures for a story at Guru3D they made sure I got them.

The first booth through the door was Gigabyte so I will do them first they had one of the smaller booths there and only there main 'flagship' products were on display, one thing was a sure fact, they did have quite a few motherboards on display.

Now, you will notice you wont see any P4 motherboards (sarcastic joke here), it's all AMD baby. They also had two ATI video cards on display as well, Hilbert is actually reviewing one of them right now.

Here is a look at there ATI Radeon 8500, it was very well made .. very nice HSF. All there products look very well built, as a matter of fact I was a little disappointed, they had no GF4 video cards to look at but since they only make ATI based video cards I guess I will let this slide ;)

You can check out the complete Gigabyte product line here giga-byte.com