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Vendor and Sponsor displays - Desktop
Several local partners, System Integrators, Distributors, resellers and manufacturers were on hand to answer queries and to showcase their new products which would support and complement the new Athlon-64 Family. Some of these were currently shipping or would ship in volume after the launch.
The Sydney arm of the distributor had on hand running Athlon 64 gaming systems outfitted with ASUS, SOLTEK and Corsair products.
ASUS SK8N NForce3 mainboard, NVIDIA graphics card, Dual DDR populated, and SATA hard disks.
SOLTEK Nforce3 bases mainboard, fan less graphics card, Corsair DDR400 memory with activity LEDs, Thermaltake cooler and Seagate PATA Barracuda 7200.7 had drive.
NVIDIA Dawn demo running on Altech's systems.
NVIDIA Dawn demo running on Altech's systems.
An Australia wide distributor known for TYAN, Giga-Byte and Leadtek products which were on display.
TYAN Dual Opteron mainboard - Socket 940, including AMD 8000 family chipset, dual onboard Broadcom LAN, ATi Rage 128XL graphics, Promise SATA bridge and 1x PCI 32-33 slot and 4x PCI-X slots.
Giga-Byte K8VNXP mainboard for Socket 754, with VIA chipset, PATA and SATA RAID, power supply module socket, 5x PCI32-33, 1x AGP-8X and single channel memory, which is consequence of Athlon-64 onboard memory controller.
Leadtek K8N Pro Nforce3 based mainboard for Socket 754. Note the USB Security Key that is bundled with the mainboard and of the extra slot reserved for oversize graphics cards. Rectron displayed the many press accolades for the particular products.
Achieva is famous for being a large supplier of ASUS products and exclusive distributor of Sapphire graphics cards.
The popular and acclaimed ASUS SK8N Nforce 3 Socket 940 mainboard , two magazine review, supporting documentation and alongside to the right Sapphire ATi Raedon 9800 Pro graphics card.
Cooler and Accessory manufacturer Thermaltake has recently setup an official Australian presence by way of a Melbourne sales office.
View of the finish and fins of the Volcano 12 Socket A cooler. Quite a large and heavy cooler that would do its job.
ThermalTake has branched into cases and this is their new Lanfire VM2000 case. To the Left is a Carry Bag/Strap to transport your new case to LAN party or other locations and to the right is a bay monitoring/control device
Those around long enough will remember SATO as being the Australian distributor of SOYO mainboards. Times have changed and now they are the exclusive distributor of SHUTTLE Small Form Factor Systems.
Shuttle XPC powered by Nforce3 and Athlon 64.This particular XPC uses an internal PSU. The graphics card is a generic Daytona Raedon.
Cooler master wave chassis. Installed in the system is the Leadtek A350TDH.
MSI is one of the few mainboard/peripheral manufacturers to have an official (sales and support) presence in Australia. MSI was showcasing their new NEO range of red mainboards as well as their optical drives, USB products and graphics cards.
Q3'03 MSI product range, MSI VIA KT series Socket A mainboard with promise SATA bridge and K8T Master2 VIA K8T series Dual Socket 940 Opteron mainboard with AGP8X and PATA RAID.
Q3'03 MSI product range, MSI VIA KT series Socket A mainboard with promise SATA bridge and K8T Master2 VIA K8T series Dual Socket 940 Opteron mainboard with AGP8X and PATA RAID. and K8T Neo , uni-processor Socket 754 Mainboard.
K8T Master2 VIA K8T series Dual Socket 940 Opteron mainboard with AGP8X and PATA RAID. and K8T Neo VIA K8T800 uni-processor Socket 754 Mainboard and the new MEGA STICK comprising MP3 Player, flash storage and other multimedia features. For Q3'03 MSI has an entire product line of mainboards that suit all of the AXP and Opteron/Athlon-64 models.
MSI Demo system running EA/DICE Battlefield:1942.