Review : FIC VC19 i845E

The FIC VC19 entered into our labs without much expectation, but from our test drive of the board, it performed reasonably well apart from the lack of nimbleness in games as compared to boards that we have tested prior to the FIC.

Even though the FIC VC19 looks rather plain aesthetically, the VC19’s reasonable price along with offerings such as six full PCI slots, HighPoint’s ATA133 Raid controller, on-board 10/100 LAN, C-Media 5.1 channel hardware sound chip and the inclusion of the valuable 5.1-channel sound module with Optical/Coaxial digital inputs and outputs, would make this board a fairly attractive deal.