Announcing the First Network Card for Gamers

gizmo

As the title suggests, Bigfoot Networks has announced its Killer Network Interface Card. To quote their blurb...

The new Gigabit KillerNIC is catered towards the hardcore gamer that requires every drop of performance possible from a gaming system. Utilizing a 400MHz network processor with 64MB of dedicated PC-2100 DDR memory, the Killer NIC has plenty of power to perform Gigabit transfer rates without hogging up too many CPU cycles.

MaxFPS technology frees up CPU cycles typically taken up by heavy network traffic by offloading the required processing onto the Killer NIC’s 400MHz network processor. UltimatePing technology lowers ping by optimizing data delivery to games faster while PingThrottle technology allows users to increase or decrease ping accordingly. GameFirst Technology prioritizes network packets for games instead of background downloading utilities such as BitTorrent.

Now while the new nForce 5 chipset caters for SOME of these functions there are still some interesting features above. Pricing has still to be announced but tbh, I think its overkill. I mean Physics Processing Units are one thing but in the day and age of sub 50 ping on most servers and with every decent motherboard coming with onboard Gigabit Ethernet I really think that they're going to have a hard time pushing these.

Stephen

strikes me as a load of marketing ****.
"MaxFPS technology!11!"
"UltimatePing!"
"GameFirst!"

Waste of money.

seamus

It's hardware for the gamer who already has everything. Load of **** if you ask me.

tman

since when have you even needed gigabit ethernet speeds for games?:p
10/100 seems to do just fine for lan games

youcancallmeal

hardcore gamer

:rolleyes:

PogMoThoin

load of bollix. dont see that taking off.

jhegarty

yep great idea, becuase the bottleneck on most crappy eircom connections is the gigabit ethernet card...

TerrorFirmer

Totally stupid-slash-pointless, but will be interesting to see what this is priced at

TomCo

HavoK wrote:

...interesting to see what this is priced at

Your credibility and self respect no doubt

seamus

This *may* be useful if you're running a LAN, and not quite getting the 0.5ms pings you desire. At what will no doubt be a price tag close to (or above) €100, I fail to see the point.

poggy

will be as usefull as a bucket with a hole in it, only made it because they could.
saying that these things tend to end up on dells and/or alienware machines

Cuddlesworth

I'm surprized to not see "to the max" in there.