Crucial Technologies, a division of Micron, is long recognized for their quality memory products and decided to venture into the peripheral market a few years ago. In the summer of 2002 they started offering the Radeon line of video cards debuting with the Radeon 8500. Now in 2003 they have the "128MB Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro". We will compare this card with the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and look into the benefits of buying this card from Crucial vs another reseller.

We'll also look at some new developments implemented in this card and why Valve, the developers of Half-Life 2, prefer ATI hardware for the game. We'll be sure to share nVIDIA's stance on the issue as well.