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Killer NIC, I want bad...| RsqDvr |
Posted: Oct 24 2006, 10:25 PM
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Sig Design Team Group: Server Admins Posts: 769 Member No.: 372 Joined: 8-September 05  |
Ok who has seen this? I saw this in Wired Mag. and had to check it out. if it was not as much as a new videocard or cpu or motherboard I would have it.
Check it out for yourself. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16833342001 --------------------   |
   
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| chaser4life |
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 10:32 AM
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Web & Sig Design  Group: IT Posts: 1,233 Member No.: 473 Joined: 10-January 06 |
Yeah saw the Killer nic on gizmodo a couple months ago. Very cool but pricey. New item for my ultimate rig. The one that will never get built save for in my dreams....
-------------------- I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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| EagleFyre |
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 11:43 AM
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Sig Design Team Group: Officers Posts: 1,316 Member No.: 290 Joined: 21-May 05 |
DROOL!!!!!
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| IH_Jimbo |
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 02:25 PM
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Technology/Organization Group: IT Posts: 1,055 Member No.: 594 Joined: 12-July 06 |
Very skeptical about this. When I first saw it on Newegg, I did some looking into it, and I personally doubt it would increase performance like they really advertise. Currently on my home network my ping to my last hop before going to the internet is less than 1ms, the latency comes from the hops over the routers and devices on the along the routes on the internet. Alot of companies realize there is more money spent for gaming pcs that any other market segment, and I think they are capitalizing on it without really delivering a viable product. And what is with these people indicating an increase in frames per second, I personally do not see how a nic can actually improve video rates. I play using my notebook most of the time, I have two different nics a wireless 54G and a gigabit ethernet wired. While my latency increases 1 to 5 ms on wireless my fps doesn't change one bit.
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| chaser4life |
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 08:05 PM
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Web & Sig Design Group: IT Posts: 1,233 Member No.: 473 Joined: 10-January 06 |
Their claim is that by processing the network info on the card itself instead of having the cpu do it, it frees up those clock cycles which could help with game functionality.
Like I said previously this is one of those things that is in my dream system. Along with the 1-2TB of 15k RPM SCSI drives, 2 7800GTX 512s in SLI,until the 8800 comes out, dual FX60s, with peltiers on them to OC the daylights out of them, all of it water cooled in a custom case. Give or take. -------------------- I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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| 911guy |
Posted: Oct 26 2006, 03:16 AM
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Group: Squad Members Posts: 1,159 Member No.: 242 Joined: 11-January 05 |
Nice. Wish I could have that.
My computer still requires Gilligan pedalling on the unicycle to power it up. -------------------- EAT CHEESE OR DIE!!!
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