** BIGFOOT 2100 - STORMING PRICEPOINT **

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We have a superb price currently on the incredible Bigfoot 2100 networking card.

Proven to give you ultimate control over your network connections whilst looking awesome in your system, the Bigfoot 2100 is a gamers dream

With one of the best prices on the UK market today paired with free shipping for qualifying forum members and our 14 Day Satisfaction Guarantee, now is the right time to pick up a card for your own system!






Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gigabit Gaming Network Card @ £54.98 inc VAT

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Simply install Killer™ 2100 into your PC, plug your network cable into it and you are ready to go. Now, Killer™ 2100 will detect game traffic as it enters your PC, prioritize it over all other network traffic, and get it to and from your game faster than any other network card.
Killer™ 2100 delivers game traffic up to ten times faster than any other network card. Fast game traffic means faster kills, extra loot and more wins in all your online games.
Yes, a Gaming Network Card. Your “dumb” NIC relies on Windows and your CPU to do all of its work – when Windows and your CPU should be running your game. See the graph to the right? During a game, a “dumb” NIC can have huge, unpredictable latency spikes. Killer™ 2100 has latency in MICROseconds. Which means your bullet gets on the wire first. In short – pwnage.
Game Networking DNA. We detect game data at the wire using our Game Detect Technology. We offload that data to the Network Processing Unit (NPU) on Killer™ 2100. Offloaded traffic goes around Windows for tremendous speed benefits. Which means bullets, spells and grenades get to you faster so you can get out of the way, and get to your enemies faster so they can’t.
You’ve got a fast CPU with more cores than some people have teeth. You’ve got a FAT Internet connection with bandwidth to download a dictionary every millisecond. But you’re still making that CPU drop everything to answer the phone when it comes to network traffic. Why glue your PC and broadband connection together with 65 cents worth of dumb connectors?

- Gigabit Ethernet
- 400 Mhz Network Processing Unit
- 128MB RAM
- PCIe
- Killer Network Manager Software Suite
- Control Panel Application & Tray Indicator
- Advanced Game Detect™ (traffic classification)
- Visual Bandwidth Control™
- Application Blocker
- Online Gaming PC Monitor™
- UDP traffic offload & acceleration
- Windows Network Stack bypass

Was £64.98 Inc. VAT

Only £54.98 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
got any snake oil to go with it?
Why glue your PC and broadband connection together with 65 cents worth of dumb connectors?
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maybe because its not the latency between your pc and the modem/router thats the problem
 
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whats interesting is how its exactly the same apart from the small file from the killer nic to the onboard is half as fast as onboard to onboard

btw sorry ocuk but u must have saw this coming
 
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To be fair to the product the Killer and other specialist NICs came from a time when things like TOE were only mainstream in servers.

Now every 2p NIC has a TOE and other fancy features that remove the need for networking to be processed at the CPU.

Can't blame them for trying though.
 
I installed two new motherboards recently and they both had the killer nic e2100 onboard, comes with some nice bloated software to go with it.
 
When I tested one of these I definitely saw a subjective improvement in stability of the connection to servers with a large number of players. Less dropouts. I couldn't find an accurate way to objectively test this. My other tests were fairly inconclusive either way with the exception of the UDP latency, which the Killer is optimised for and delivers very well.

It also offers a huge amount of control over your network connection on a hardware level. This is something that's often overlooked as people are easy to dismiss this device. The UDP performance is also much better than anything else I've seen, although you need the right conditions for this to be worthwhile. For most people, this won't make much difference at all, but it is somewhat amusing that people dismiss it outright without any insight.

The best use I could think of it would be if you have a decent connection and download a lot in the background, whilst gaming. You could prioritise the gaming UDP packets and segment the bandwidth, on this hardware, so that you would get just a good performance in games even when almost maxing out your connection for downloads. Games don't need a lot of bandwidth generally, so after some config that'd work well.
 
The UDP performance is also much better than anything else I've seen, although you need the right conditions for this to be worthwhile. For most people, this won't make much difference at all, but it is somewhat amusing that people dismiss it outright without any insight.
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it cant control anything between your modem and all the routing you get passed through on the way to the destination and then back so they are junk.
The best use I could think of it would be if you have a decent connection and download a lot in the background, whilst gaming. You could prioritise the gaming UDP packets and segment the bandwidth, on this hardware, so that you would get just a good performance in games even when almost maxing out your connection for downloads. Games don't need a lot of bandwidth generally, so after some config that'd work well.
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can do that on my almost 10 year old router

it will never "work well" if your maxing out your upload anyway its easier just to limit your torrents
 
arknor said:
it cant control anything between your modem and all the routing you get passed through on the way to the destination and then back so they are junk.

can do that on my almost 10 year old router

it will never "work well" if your maxing out your upload anyway its easier just to limit your torrents
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I wasn't claiming it can do anything beyond your router, it can't.

Yeah, you can limit your torrents through software less precisely, but that won't change how the windows network stack prioritises traffic (not optimised for gaming/UDP). This does that on a hardware level and bypasses windows.

Unless you want that level of control, you'll see near no difference in gaming performance from normal network hardware, I certainly couldn't measure any improvement in my tests.
 
alex24 said:
When I tested one of these I definitely saw a subjective improvement in stability of the connection to servers with a large number of players. Less dropouts. I couldn't find an accurate way to objectively test this. My other tests were fairly inconclusive either way with the exception of the UDP latency, which the Killer is optimised for and delivers very well.

It also offers a huge amount of control over your network connection on a hardware level. This is something that's often overlooked as people are easy to dismiss this device. The UDP performance is also much better than anything else I've seen, although you need the right conditions for this to be worthwhile. For most people, this won't make much difference at all, but it is somewhat amusing that people dismiss it outright without any insight.

The best use I could think of it would be if you have a decent connection and download a lot in the background, whilst gaming. You could prioritise the gaming UDP packets and segment the bandwidth, on this hardware, so that you would get just a good performance in games even when almost maxing out your connection for downloads. Games don't need a lot of bandwidth generally, so after some config that'd work well.
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I'm sorry but a single contrived use case does not a good product make.

I've just read your review and your point about the UDP traffic doesn't make much sense either. You demonstrate results that show that the huge increase in UDP throughput makes virtually zero difference to actual in game pings and jitter so I'm not really sure how you draw the conclusion that this UDP bandwidth matters to the user.

I also do not really get your point about suffering "less dropouts" from servers. Somebody's local wired network is *not* going to be the reason that they get dropouts from servers.
 
arknor said:
so whys it only as fast as onboard in reviews?
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You must mean latency by saying fast? The answer is because almost always, the limiting factor of your network performance is beyond your home network. In specific conditions, and with the large amount of control this device offers, some will find good use for it.
 
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