[H]ardNews 1st Edition

New Motherboard Monitor :

Motherboard Monitor is here! Motherboard Monitor is here! This brings the handy monitoring utility up to version 5.3.2.0….get it if you need it.

FIC A95P 9500 Pro:

FIC makes more than just motherboards, they make video cards too. Today, the FIC A95P 9500 Pro showed up in this review at Envy News. Here is a snippet from the review:

The piece of hardware I am referring to is the A95P (Radeon 9500 Pro AGP 8x 128MB) from FIC, which is based on the VPU from the wonderful CANADIAN company ATI. Perhaps it isn’t so much the A95P that brought forth the lyrics but the new movement on ATI’s part to share with others the fruits of their labors in the R&D department for eye candy goodness which we all love to drool over.

Radeon 9800Pro Review:

The current heavyweight champion of the graphics card world, the Radeon 9800Pro is reviewed today at OCAddiction. Good review, great card.

I consider myself lucky to review this card. It was not sent to me by a sponsor or ATI. I happened to be in Fry's Electronics here in Southern California the day it came out and they had a box sitting on the ground with six shiny, new RADEON 9800 PROs in it, so of course I snagged one. So the results you see are from a retail card, not hand picked by a manufacturer.