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vampireuk
06-29-03, 05:35 PM
A quote from Tomshardware on the ATI Q&A session..

For example, take one guy who was asking about the possibility of upgrading his integrated graphics. Terry on a whim suggested that since he could not give him a PCI video card at the moment since his Gateway system didn't have an AGP slot. Instead Terry proposed that we just replace his entire system and he could donate his entire system in the name charity in the name of MML2. ATI, convinced AMD to supply an Athlon XP 3000, ABIT supplied a motherboard, Areocool Case/Deep Impact Heatsink Fan Combo, All American Computers donated a power supply, Corsair donated the RAM, and we recycled the hard drive from his former system and low and behold this unsuspecting attendee wound up with a new computer. Perhaps the best part of the deal was that Terry arranged for All American Computers to build this system. We have never seen anything like this before, all because he asked a question.

:eek:

digitalwanderer
06-29-03, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by vampireuk
A quote from Tomshardware on the ATI Q&A session..

(Insert quote about ATi getting a guy a killer new rig to be nice)

:eek:
Terry is like that, he's absolutely kind and loves making geeks happy. :cool:

He gave away a ton of 5600 Pro's, anyone who came up to him and said they were from Rage3D or DriverHeaven got one! :D (Damn it, and I REALLY wanted to go too! :( )

GlowStick
06-29-03, 05:53 PM
Wow, sounds cool for everon who gets to go to the big shows!

5150 Joker
06-30-03, 06:18 AM
Originally posted by digitalwanderer
Terry is like that, he's absolutely kind and loves making geeks happy. :cool:

He gave away a ton of 5600 Pro's, anyone who came up to him and said they were from Rage3D or DriverHeaven got one! :D (Damn it, and I REALLY wanted to go too! :( )

5600 pro's? :confused: :spank:

digitalwanderer
06-30-03, 08:32 AM
Originally posted by 5150 Joker
5600 pro's? :confused: :spank:
Sorry, 9600 Pros are what he was giving away.

Thanks for the correction, I was doing a lot of comparison yesterday 'tween the 5600 & 9600 and got confused. :rolleyes:

|JuiceZ|
07-02-03, 11:48 AM
Yea those ATi guys were crazy but too cool. They threw out well over 10K worth of cards during the whole event. You guys would have loved it. :cool: