$280 Killer NIC card "for gamers"

[Googer]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Wow, how many Mhz does it have? Its gotta be a lot more Mhz than my card.

500MHz.

First of all, if you're going to be a shill, at least know your product. It has a 400 Mhz processor. Secondly, obviously, not one of you paid shills has ever gamed in his life. If you had, you'd know right off the bat that being forced into using your motherboards onboard sound will account for a 20-25% loss of available cpu cycles, compared to a 1-3% loss, if using a decent sound card*.

And since all but a couple of the enthusiast motherboards for the last couple of years only have 2 PCI slots, using this NIC, along with an Ageia card, limits you to onboard sound, and a drastic loss in framerates, compared to using an Ageia card, and a sound card. So, you're limiting yourself to using either an Ageia card, or this NIC. Guess which one I would choose? And I highly doubt that I'm the only gamer who thinks that way.

*while gaming

It's Simple, AGEIA Needs to come up the PCI-e soloution that we all have been crying about since day one.

 

[Googer]

Appearantly the guy behind this network card has some very good crediantials.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/358/2/

 

[holotech]

the best thing ive read heard was that you can build a linux PC for less money.

that would offload anything you freakin want and be faster too.

i just hope peoples from anandtech will review it, thats all.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: Googer
It's Simple, AGEIA Needs to come up the PCI-e soloution that we all have been crying about since day one.

So you think a GbE PCI NIC which doesn't even have jumbo frame support is a good idea?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Googer
Appearantly the guy behind this network card has some very good crediantials.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/358/2/

1) that sounds like a sales pitch



To those who are pushing an agenda her (not naming any names) :

Realize that you are insulting the intelligence of people who play games on their pc. You are saying that they will practically buy anything becaue it is out there etc....

You are pushing development ideas and future potential featuresets to a crowd who doesn't even care about that sort of thing. They want stuff NOW, and will pay a lot of money for NOW, but you keep pushing the future potential and possibilities of this card...probably to deaf ears.

Keep in mind that all gamers didn't get "burned with a physics accelerator"; not all of us rush out to buy stuff based on obviosuly biased reviews.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Madwand1

Originally posted by: Googer
It's Simple, AGEIA Needs to come up the PCI-e soloution that we all have been crying about since day one.

So you think a GbE PCI NIC which doesn't even have jumbo frame support is a good idea?

It is a good idea for a NIC to have PCI-e, but if you only have one PCI slot it really would not matter. Second, most of us at this moment will only use 1% (10mb/s) of a 1000 megabit connection. Since 100% of the computers in use at home right now have at least one PCI-slot and less than 25% have at lest one free non-graphics PCI-e slots*, it makes more sence from a buisnes perspective to make your first offering a PCI-L (PCI Legacy) solution and later offer the pci-express part later.

Some machines only have one x16 slot and the rest (4 or 5) are legacy PCI.

 

[Parasitic]

I know I'm bumping old threads, but if through the built-in Linux kernel if somebody were to be able to design AV and firewall for it that'd actually be kinda cool...taking the pressure off Windows.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
I know I'm bumping old threads, but if through the built-in Linux kernel if somebody were to be able to design AV and firewall for it that'd actually be kinda cool...taking the pressure off Windows.

Clamwin combined with Smoothwall would be a great combinatoin.