Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gigabit Gaming Network Card

chris408 · 11 Feb 2011 at 12:42

Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gigabit Gaming Network Card
are these any good for online gaming

DJMK4 · 11 Feb 2011 at 12:49

I really think most of the comments you will see in this thread will say "dont bother", no point in spending £50+ on a gimmick called the "gaming network card" when you wont notice any difference to a standard card.

Reminds me of people who go out and buy a £40 HDMI lead when there was no proof that the quality was any better than a £5 HDMI lead.

Hotwired · 11 Feb 2011 at 12:59

And some gaming grade rj45 cable while you're at it

Dist · 11 Feb 2011 at 13:05

Just do a search, this topic has come up a lot of this forum and has been answered already.

Rroff · 11 Feb 2011 at 13:11

Hotwired said:
And some gaming grade rj45 cable while you're at it

Make sure it has gold plated connectors...

sargatanas · 11 Feb 2011 at 14:30

Rroff said:
Make sure it has gold plated connectors...

And lighting design on it. If there are no lightning bolts on it, it's not fast enough!

silworth · 11 Feb 2011 at 14:45

I think the bottom line always ends up as:

Spend less on an Intel PRO/1000 of some flavour.

SupermotoMX · 11 Feb 2011 at 14:52

+1 if you really want a dedicated card (offload 0.1% cpu load) get the intel pro, otherwise just use onboard

Awahwah · 11 Feb 2011 at 20:26

From a pure Network point of view. General users would not notice a difference going from 10m Full Duplex to 1g Full Dup.

mrk · 11 Feb 2011 at 20:58

Awahwah said:
From a pure Network point of view. General users would not notice a difference going from 10m Full Duplex to 1g Full Dup.

Yes, they really would if their broadband connection is faster than their network connection is! (10Mbit)

JonJ678 · 12 Feb 2011 at 02:52

It seems unlikely that you have a gbit internet connection, so I'm going to say that's a bad purchase.

There's some merit to the idea of network cards doing their own processing (fewer interrupts sent to the cpu etc), but with a desktop processor it just isn't going to matter. If you want tcp checksums etc done on the card, then as above, you want a card with Intel written on it. Not a Bigfoot Killer card. And probably not a gigabit one either.