** 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
 
Valkia has one in his system, I will ask him to post in here, he will be able to give you an honest opinion.

a guy in my clan uses the same chip on his motherboard and swears by it, essentially because he fiddles with his connection loads and likes to have the options to customise things that an onboard controller simply wouldn't allow.
 
As always it can't influence traffic the ISP side of your router whatsoever - which is where the big issues for gamers always lies.

Only time it will make any noticeable difference is if your current NIC is pretty shoddy.

EDIT: If your someone who loads your PC up with a ton of ****, too lazy/not interested/don't know how to in keeping it optimised then it might be an advantage i.e. if your someone who leaves photoshop, 3DS max, your media player, etc. all running the background while gaming. For most people its just a waste of money.
 
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this is our most popular NIC at the moment and has a massive following so a deal is always a good thing for such an in demand item :)
 
A NIC is for a user who really depends on milliseconds response within gaming, such as an FPS game. When I put my card on the first thing which impressed me was the software which broke down all usage of bandwidth. I did notice that I had a lower ping (by a few) in games but the connection was solid with not much fluctuation. I recommend the hardware only for games :) I do like it
 
SFFNoob said:
Always wondered if one of these makes a difference, prices are getting keener to try!
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If the prices were closer to high end NIC prices I'd be tempted to try one - the reality is most average NICs have a latency between themselves and the router of around 0.2-0.3ms and while the killer NICs hold a pretty steady 0.1ms absolutely no one will notice fluctuations smaller than 0.5ms and most people won't even notice 5ms fluctuation.

Only situation where I can really see it worth getting one of these is if you have a lot of stuff running on your PC i.e. either lots of background tasks that could impact on performance or applications like instant messenger apps, etc. that aren't time sensitive but may at times spike your network traffic (the killer NIC can manage the network data to give gaming traffic priority reducing or eliminating spikes from this kinda situation). Most hardcore gamers who'd benefit and care about something like this will run from a clean environment anyhow to keep their edge.
 
IMO - Worth it only if it presents better value than a comparable piece of hardware when you NEED a replacement/second card.

It is not an upgrade in any sense of the word and QoS at router level is far more effective for making sure your gaming packets get bumped in any queues.
 
A regular onboard NIC will probably give you latency of 0.3ms to your router, but YMMV slightly. Once considering the Internet, which I assume you'll be doing most of your gaming over, the difference between a 20.1ms from a bigfoot NIC 20.3ms from a realtek NIC might not do much for you if you're not into the placebo affect.

On the other hand, an on-board realtek NIC won't have any hardware to offload from the CPU, and isn't a particularly great NIC. You're more likely to experience higher transfer rates, and better FPS using something like the bigfoot, or an Intel based NIC. Of course, the FPS difference will depend on how overspecced your rig is in the first place, and how much traffic you're pushing through your system whilst gaming, and your transfer rates will only really matter if you're pushing files over your LAN.

So lets say you have a use case for a decent NIC, the question should be what does a 50quid bigfoot offer over a 10-20quid Intel NIC? The answer is the software. If you happen to download (especially the likes of torrents) whilst playing games, and happen to be doing this on the same PC you're playing on, then you will probably benefit from this NIC.

However there is a better solution, and thats router based QOS. The advantage of that, is it'd be network wide so if your family download, you can also control their connecting whoring from the router. The disadvantages are QOS costs CPU cycles which commodity routers don't have a lot of, and QOS is difficult to setup and maintain (you can buy premium devices, but they're usually overpriced, and the qos is probably so-so. You can do it yourself with OpenWRT, but the majority of the forum would probably fail to accomplish such a thing).

TL;DR - It offers nothing unless you have a genuine use for the software. If it was half price, and I didn't have an Intel NIC already, then I'd probably buy one.
 
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aln said:
On the other hand, an on-board realtek NIC won't have any hardware to offload from the CPU, and isn't a particularly great NIC. You're more likely to experience higher transfer rates, and better FPS using something like the bigfoot, or an Intel based NIC.
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onboard nics are fine since cpus are so massively overpowered for gaming these days.
even a dedicated nic is a waste of time unless you have a slow cpu or driver issues.

the margin of error seems to be greater than the impact a killer nic has.
 
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arknor said:
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onboard nics are fine since cpus are so massively overpowered for gaming these days.
even a dedicated nic is a waste of time unless you have a slow cpu or driver issues.

the margin of error seems to be greater than the impact a killer nic has.
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You know, the next thing I said was:-

"Of course, the FPS difference will depend on how overspecced your rig is in the first place, and how much traffic you're pushing through your system whilst gaming, and your transfer rates will only really matter if you're pushing files over your LAN".

The way you quoted me makes it looks like we don't agree, even though we do. People sitting with 2500k's are heavily overspecced, and I doubt there are many people who push tons of data whilst gaming anyway.

However with regards to the transfers and the benchmarks, the distinction I was making wasn't whether or not the NIC is on-board, that makes no difference because both will connect via the PCI(-e) lane, what matters is the the quality of the NIC. Historically, an Intel NIC is good whether or not it's on-board, and a realtek is likely a cheaper unit. This may not be true for every chip from each vendor, but it's something which is generally accepted.

Also given we're talking about Gb/s NICs, why did you link a 100Mb/s benchmark?
 
Gotta disagree with that mate, but it looks like yet another case of broken tests:-

  • 32 MB/s upload speeds are not representative of the 90MB/s you should be seeing from 1Gb/s link.
  • It doesn't make a great deal of sense that the big foot would be significantly better on the upload tests, but slightly weaker on the download tests. Makes the tests look like they're severely being held back by disk i/o.
  • The passmark tests are claiming to be pushing far in excess of what a Gb/s is capable of, and I can only assume it should be referring to Mb/s, which is under half of what the NICs should be capable of.
Either all these NICs are really, really bad, and an Intel NIC will give you amazing transfer rates compared to them, or the tests are majority flawed for one reason or another. I lean towards the latter, it's hard to accept the premium device is seriously deficient when compared to a £10 Intel card.
 
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