Killer nic xeon pro

ok i must go now before my girlfriend kills me, as i said "ill be back" lol i did a quick comparision on both the lower the better right? game mode was better in some cases, some cases not. Is this just because of server load? is there anysite i can tracecert properly to get more accurate results?
 
Post them anyway, both will (should) show <1ms ping to your router and therefore prove that the NIC has nothing to do with any 20ms improvements you might be having.
 
Before the killer nic was you using the onboard nic?

Because there may be a marginal difference in some minor stuff when using a killer nic over onboard nic, but if you compare killer nic to an intel pro/1000 or similar card, I daubt you would see any noticible difference outside of the standard variance that only gaming pings vary by.
 
yes i was using onboard, theese comparisons im using now are in game and app mode, i will post now just uploading to file shack


 
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Weird (well not really), the NIC to router on both modes is <1ms which is the same for most including on-board. The tracert is also the same pretty much.

Any chance you could run ping www.google.co.uk to say a game server IP as well? Looking at those tracerts it doesn't appear to make any difference.
 
VaderDSL said:
Weird (well not really), the NIC to router on both modes is <1ms which is the same for most including on-board. The tracert is also the same pretty much.

Any chance you could run ping www.google.co.uk to say a game server IP as well? Looking at those tracerts it doesn't appear to make any difference.
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Sure, all the tests i do seem to have <1 at start, is it only the start that the network card should make a diffrence on? Because i dissmised this product too as everyone else does as snake oil but it does have a effect in games moving from onboard to my killer nic even from nic to game mode and app mode
 
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Well fair enough :) if you're happy then at the end of the day that's the most important thing, I was just curious mainly as I too assumed it was a gimmick.
 
VaderDSL said:
Well fair enough :) if you're happy then at the end of the day that's the most important thing, I was just curious mainly as I too assumed it was a gimmick.
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it is my money im wasting after all ^^. So going by the 2 pics i took of tracerting a l4d2 server i join would you say its better in game mode?

I have no idea what im looking at, and could you explain what a tracert is? does it basically track where your signals are being set and recived?
 
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That's my CMD, both google.co.uk and the server IP you did.

I find the NIC aload of tosh and waste of money, and I bet you there isn't any difference only what you think there is.
 
i can see the diffrence when im ingame, have it in game mode, switch to app mode then it goes down straight away by quite a lot, seemed to me a quite big step up from using my mobo

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Putting it in application mode would have most probably restricted bandwith to your gaming ports.

Any QoS router can do that! I'm on the very first Gigabyte DS3 motherboard and never had problems.

:|
 
i was told the app mode doesnt use the nics accleration code and just acts as a nic when its in that mode. I dont know much about it and i dont blame you for not thinking it does ne thing, looking at the comparison if in game mode and in app mode which is better? I would say game mode without looking.

I also tested my pings on speedtest . net my ping only improved no more then 5ms, why was this?
 
Theres no noticable difference between Application or Game mode.

Speedtest.net isn't a realiable site to check ping/bandwith, pretty much useless! :)

I'm sorry if I sounded harsh, just hate to see people fooled into something that's not! :(
 
i wasnt fooled lol i thought it would do nothing but it did which supprised me i posted this to see if ne one else bought one im obv the only person here willing to "risk" it lol
 
Erm, yeah.. Here's my tracert to the BBC News site on my standard Onboard NIC.. I've had these pings to most UK game servers around those ping levels with any NIC I've used for the past few years as long as I have Interleaved turned off on my line and it is running in FAST Path mode.. No big deal..?

Code: 
C:\Users\Josh>tracert news.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to newswww.bbc.net.uk [212.58.226.140]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    16 ms    15 ms    16 ms  fe0-0-0.lns3.uan.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.62.165]
  3    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  ge0-3-1.er2.uan.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.62.162]
  4    19 ms    16 ms    16 ms  ge2-6-1.cr1.core.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.43.33]
  5    16 ms    16 ms    15 ms  ge0-0-1.tr1.core.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.43.2]
  6    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  gi4-3.ccr01.lon08.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.146.89]
  7    18 ms    18 ms    19 ms  te2-2.mpd01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.145]
  8    16 ms    17 ms    17 ms  ldn-b4-link.telia.net [213.248.70.237]
  9    16 ms    17 ms    18 ms  siemens-ic-124654-ldn-b4.c.telia.net [213.248.79.166]
 10    16 ms    16 ms    17 ms  212.58.238.153
 11    17 ms    17 ms    18 ms  te12-1.hsw1.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.234]
 12    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  nol-vip03.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.226.140]

Trace complete.

So what's special about this Killer NIC crap? :/
 
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