Killer gaming network card

psychas · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:21

I always thought it a sound card rofl and just found out its a network card yesterday, they say they increase fps and boost your internet or something? is it really worth it or its just waste of pci slot ?

there website: http://www.killernic.com/

gurusan · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:22

a waste. I remember ads for these ont he banners when in the starcraft multiplayer GUI. As if a crazy network card would make a difference in an old school RTS.

BUt even in FPS shooters, I doubt it would make more than a 1ms difference

Emlyn_Dewar · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:24

From all the posts I've read here, it's just expensive, not much need for it.

Masterdog · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:42

There's a review of it at the suspiciously-named 'Legit Reviews' (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/478/1/). The conclusion seemed to be that it makes a small amount of difference (a couple more fps, maybe a 1ms ping drop) but nothing worth your hard-earned cash.

rhymin · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:44

custompc rate it as being pretty good, but expensive

I'd get it if I had money to burn

psychas · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:46

thanks lad not going to buy this then

utajoker · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:17

rhymin said:
I'd get it if I had money to burn

agreed, if u have money to waste get one.

gurusan · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:19

rhymin said:
custompc rate it as being pretty good, but expensive

I'd get it if I had money to burn

good for what

.:MBK:. · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:27

other than the standard job of taking a few clock cycles away from the cpu this is just an overly priced NIC, and like every other NIC, it runs faster than your netspeed, so, like every other NIC, it is limited by your net speed provided by your ISP, and at a LAN it is limited by the speed of the switches/routers etc

Conclusion, this card is a masively overpriced bog standard NIC with no real world difference from its £10-£20 buddies other than a fancy emblem

spicypixel · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:51

I guess the other bonuses are running a Linux powered IPTables firewall on the card as well as a torrent client. VOIP is getting a makeover soon, I guess it has potential... Having IPTables protecting Vista might convince me to get one

ACESHIGH · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:52

.:MBK:. said:
other than the standard job of taking a few clock cycles away from the cpu this is just an overly priced NIC, and like every other NIC, it runs faster than your netspeed, so, like every other NIC, it is limited by your net speed provided by your ISP, and at a LAN it is limited by the speed of the switches/routers etc

Conclusion, this card is a masively overpriced bog standard NIC with no real world difference from its £10-£20 buddies other than a fancy emblem

This man speaks the truth.

Biohazard · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:00

They are good for picking your teeth..

V|per · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:12

Biohazard said:
They are good for picking your teeth..

And even then, a toothpick would be a little cheaper....

I know someone who has one, he swears by it... i can't tell the difference, and neither can he tbh, as i took the cat5 cable out and put it in his onboard NIC, and he didn't notice for about 5 months...

Kainz · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:14

lol I'm surprised those things are still around!

PinkFloyd · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:15

V|per said:
as i took the cat5 cable out and put it in his onboard NIC, and he didn't notice for about 5 months...

ROFL.

Cruel but so funny.

mrk · 26 Mar 2008 at 13:37

The PhysX cards of the NIC world....

Virtually nothing for a lot of something*

*Something being your money....

Emlyn_Dewar · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:09

It's got a shiny K with a blade look stuck on it though, I think it's well worth £160.

Pulseammo · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:10

spicypixel said:
I guess the other bonuses are running a Linux powered IPTables firewall on the card as well as a torrent client. VOIP is getting a makeover soon, I guess it has potential... Having IPTables protecting Vista might convince me to get one

Get one of the numerous linux based home routers out there, i.e. WRT54GS-L or WRT54G-L and flash it with OpenWRT (http://openwrt.org/). Costs a heck of a lot less than this NIC no doubt! Dump it between your modem and your PC, IPTables firewall, problem solved. Cheaply.

Edit: As for the card, what a load of rubbish. Your network latency is affected more by the underlying network topology from you to the server than it is by the processing power of your machine.

Tefal · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:29

Any one else think that heat sink would make a decent knuckle duster after a bit of sharpening?

Sleepery · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:55

I'm surprised Pottsey isn't in here telling us how great it is. He's probably out of a job after physX getting bought out, this would be ideal for him