SUMMARY: Two or three years ago it used to be easy to name every motherboard on the market. These days though, with so many different motherboards to choose from, it's indeed a hard task, in this fierce new market place which we are now blessed with. One of these motherboards is the new FIC VC19 which is based on the I845E chipset for the Pentium 4 platform. The TweakTown labs haven't seen much from FIC lately - Do they have what it takes to bring the VC19 into our hearts as an enthusiast level motherboard? Read on as Cameron "Sov" Johnson gives us an answer.
Bus Frequency 100/133MHz Internal 400/533MHz External Netburst Micro Architecture
Expansion Slots 1 AGP 4x (1.5v only) 6 PCI
Expansion Ports 1 PS2 Keyboard Port 1 PS2 Mouse Port 6 USB 2.0 Ports (2 rear accessible, 4 via expansion bracket) 2 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 5 Stereo Audio Ports (2 via expansion ports 4 Digital Audio Ports 1 Game Port
Special Features BIOS overclocking control of FSB Highpoint ATA-133 RAID Controller Onboard Realtek Networking Smartcard and Memory Stick Controller.