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LAN Party Forums => Hardware Discussion => Started by: Dwg115 on July 14, 2006, 02:33:07 PM

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: Dwg115 on July 14, 2006, 02:33:07 PM

This looks cool although maybe a bit overdone.  but who knows?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3316

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: Fabio on July 14, 2006, 02:47:23 PM

saw this on [H]... made me laugh because its totally stupid in my opinion because no doubt it will be over $100

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: zx2slow on July 14, 2006, 02:59:43 PM

nForce4 dual 10/100/1000 FTW.  I dont think they take up more than 0.00000005% of my cpu anyhoo.

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: TekieB on July 14, 2006, 10:09:34 PM

Saw it on engadget, this is my breakdown of it:

Andy Babin: http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/ yay bundleing tou's on consumer gear
Andy Babin: i could have disecting the marketing bullCrap for housrs, its funny

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Network packets for your games are
prioritized and delivered before all
other network activity on the system.

 so QOS

Quote

MaxFPS™ Technology offloads your
network processing to Killer, which
frees your CPU to focus on what you
need it to – THE GAME!!! Killer’s
superior performance allows you to
experience more Frames Per Second
even on max’d out PCs with top of line
graphics cards and other peripherals.

so a real lan chipset

Quote

When other gamers complain that your
Ping is too low, adjust it a little higher
until they stop whining. Then, dial it
back down and go in for the kill!

 WHY??????

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Win more because UltimatePing™ Technology offers the fastest gaming performance possible. No
matter how fast your ISP is, you can get a better Ping. UltimatePing Technology maximizes the speed
of your gaming PC because Killer’s Network Processor Unit (NPU) delivers data to games faster than
traditional NICs or LOM, and reduces your Ping in online games

packets only travel at the speed of light (a lot of the internets backbone is fibre, but the same could be said for copper.) You run into physical limitations beyond your network card, routers, modems, etc. Chances are you are doing a 0-5ms ping to your router (right now under 5ms on  54g wifi, under 1ms on 10/100)

This is mostly a rebadged server nic, and i'm curious to see what chipset it is. Stuff like a TCP offload engine and such is designed for a server with thousands of connections. That being said if you want the type of performance buy a intel or other server grade nic.

That being said, it's marketing at it's finest, like the X-fi (headphones do more than a soundcard) cards, and physics engine (hasen't proven worthwhile yet), one more thing to shove in a vacant PCI slot that does NOTHING to help you game.

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: TekieB on July 14, 2006, 10:12:30 PM

Quote from: "Zx2Slow"

nForce4 dual 10/100/1000 FTW.  I dont think they take up more than 0.00000005% of my cpu anyhoo.

just for giggles, I set up a non scientific experiment:

under nix, one of the lan admin servers I ran this

ping -f -s 1024 IPaddy(fastest game server)

the server sending out the packets was a 1.4ghz athlon, with a 3com pci nic (an older one)

this shot the cpu up to about 10% use with the nic sending out a LOT of packets

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: TekieB on July 15, 2006, 12:15:31 AM

I want someone to respond, I feel like arguing :D

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: sully! on July 15, 2006, 12:59:32 AM

What are you talking about you n00b!?!

This is teh 13373$7 piece of hardware ever made! It's like, more better than....stuff that's really good....times 10! I'm going to get 2 of them and put them in SLI! ...or Quad SLI even!

(better?)

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: TekieB on July 15, 2006, 01:04:35 AM

that works

I can already use more than one nic FOR DOUBBLE THE BANDWITH ON THE INTERNETS@!!!!!!!!!!!!

until it hits the switch those packets are being sent before the machine wrties them

(I only have a 3mbit connection to the internets)

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: The Shoctor on July 15, 2006, 06:49:11 AM

Tekie, I don't think we are going to find anyone who wants to argue.

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: Dwg115 on July 15, 2006, 07:14:19 AM

I'll argue after i read a review.  But yea like i said it seems like it's just a nic marketed for a gamer and nothing more.

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: cuzzNkev on July 16, 2006, 01:47:18 PM

Since when has the NIC been the bottleneck, 1996 maybe?

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: Dwg115 on July 16, 2006, 01:51:12 PM

well i guess if Ageia can do it so can they.  no offense to those who bought the physx card!

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: zx2slow on July 16, 2006, 05:20:04 PM

I cant wait until the Fatil1ty version comes out, that dude whores himself out to just about anything.

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: The Shoctor on July 17, 2006, 08:58:23 AM

I got my card for free... I can see it being an intresting add on if anything was made to use it... I think having Cell Factor as a demo and then find you can run it without the card is retarded...... It's obvious that the physics would have to be CPU handled for the boxes since it would all need to be relayed to the other computers for multiplayer..... Ohh well. Yeah, I am just really glad it wasn't me paying for it.

Back to the network card!
And just like having the knobs for all your crazy fans/epenis pumps/etc. Now you have have one for your ping!

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: Dwg115 on August 24, 2006, 09:52:23 AM

hey....uhhh...where did you get your epenis pumps?????  my friend errr wants to know?:/

Title: Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers
Post by: The Shoctor on August 24, 2006, 10:14:01 AM

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1220