$149.99 *Gameing* Network Card WTF - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Ferroto
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 04:58:39 am
content: http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/It's just your everyday 10\100\1000 NIC I don't even think it needs that poorly designed heat sink anyways.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 12:34:31 pm
content: Plenty of kids with cash to burn, they'll sell a ton of'em!

author: desolatordan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 01:13:58 pm
content: While it's benefit/cost is quite low, the reviews I've seen actually do show it improves ping. There's always a market for the top of the line product with no regard for price. It's got a heat sink because it's running at 400MHz w/ embedded linux. It also has very good control for setting the priority of different types of network traffic.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 02:26:36 pm
content: That's funny, given that it has embedded Linux, it's ironic that Linux isn't on the list of supported operating systems!

author: Ferroto
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 03:57:48 pm
content: I lost a considerable amount of respect for PC Gamer Magazine when they wrote a positive article on this card awhile back anyone can be bought nowadays sad really.

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2009, 07:49:31 pm
content: Next thing you know people will be selling gold plated fuses.Oh wait.http://www.aaudioimports.com/ShowProduct.asp?hProduct=37

author: charliex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2009, 01:23:32 am
content: Some network cards, like the intel pro, offload some of the heavy lifting onto the card itself which takes it the load off the tcp/ip stack.

author: Brett
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2010, 07:09:05 am
content: Did you see it says, "Discontinued"? Hahaha... guess it wasn't so popular after all.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2010, 07:59:13 am
content: Quote from: Neilm on November 18, 2009, 07:49:31 pmhaha high currents cause metal fatigue. Personally I think the net needs it's own police and trading standards that have no borders !

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2010, 08:00:13 am
content: Quote from: desolatordan on November 18, 2009, 01:13:58 pmvery true and born out by the prices we buy/sell goods for when dealing with military projects

author: xani
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2010, 04:45:33 pm
content: Quote from: Brett on January 11, 2010, 07:09:05 amThey still have some other NIChttp://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-xeno-pro/All that is of source complete bullshit, only thing good nic can reduce is latency from PC to "nexthop" usually ISP router which on 100MBit ethernet is like 0.2-2 ms64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.200 ms64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.210 ms64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.413 ms64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.207 ms64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.211 msits from linux, maybe on windows that "killer" nic would give 1-2ms tops. And it won't help when gamer's sister starts downloading youtube movies thru same connection (good router with software like Tomato or DD-WRT can tho ;] )