Gamers NIC

[cryotek]

I was browsing newegg and this caught my EYE, its a Gamer NIC and pretty impressive, but its $280 and I don't think its work it.

Its pretty much linux on a card, it has a 400MHz CPU and 64MB DDR ram.

Because it by passes the windows stack you gain a nice FPS increase. You can also use it to run applications such as ventrilo on the card, again not touching your CPU

Pretty unky if you ask me. More information can be found here:
http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/

and can be bought here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833342001

[candy-man]

I can't believe people actually spent $280 on that...

[KevinIN72]

Yeah they did a review or something on it on the maximum pc mag a little wile ago i think.

[Drocona]

seems totally useless to me...

[cryotek]

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/networking/bigfoot/killer/review/fps.jpg

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/networking/bigfoot/killer/review/ping.jpg

It does help, and because it runs linux you can install a virus scanner to scan files before it reaches your computer. and it won't use your CPU.

So in someways i guess it can be worth the $280, but i don't think there is enough to justify the price tag.

[Drocona]

I'll stick with my Marvell Yukon 1Gbit/s
I can buy soooo many good and more useful stuff for that money

[KevinIN72]

Yeah, I'm just using my onbored, it works fine for me.

[Gigabit]

I really really want that though... even though it is a bit pricey! I also want that one physX card.. those two things are my next to ventures lol

[cryotek]

even though only like 5 games currently use the physx gard, and when more games support it, there will be better physics cards

[ComputerHelper]

I have the bigfoot Killer card in all my gameing desktops and It makes a huge difference, Its worth it!!

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I use the ones with the big K on them but this one is cheeper but alittle less powerful (I've never used it so i can't tell ya how it works)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833342002