Anand killer 2100 review - where is it?

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imagoon

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Buy an Intel server nic. Will do the same thing effectively. Good luck with Jumbo frames. All they do is lower the CPU usage of the machine doing they framing. The do little to nothing to improve wire speed. You save a little overhead if you are doing something that needs the larger frame. Then again most (home) network devices don't support them correctly so you spend a bunch of time with frame errors on the line.
 
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cmetz

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It probably is 1% better than a standard NIC - it offloads a lot of things from Windows's native network stack, which has to be a good thing. But the money is almost certainly better spent on another step up of graphics card, CPU, RAM, faster hard disk, etc.

Buy a $30 Intel NIC and be happy.
 
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KarlitoBrigante

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The killer is on sale this week at newegg (click email promotions on the main page).

I've read a ton of reviews online and it seems like this will be similar to what x-fi did for my sound. Sure onboard is satisfactory but once you hear x-fi there's no going back. Everything I've read leads me to believe that it will be similar for this version of killer nic.
 
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imagoon

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Except that $20 Intel nic does the same thing.

I also would not be that quick to ditch the on board chips. Some of those on board chips are the exact same chips on PCI-E cards. And on the X-fi comment, maybe from onboard to an x-fi but I found x-fi to the Hercules even better sounding.
 
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Chaoticlusts

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Yeah I'd really like to know what happened to this review too...

I was extremely skeptical about these products but oddly have been basically unable to find a bad review of the killer 2100...however i've also not been able to find a review done by any site I know does reliable reviews..and anandtech is at the top of that list so I was really wanting too see their take on it...getting an official responce on whether a review for it is dead or not would be nice ^_^
 
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KarlitoBrigante said:
So back in May anand said they were going to review the killer 2100 (see http://www.anandtech.com/show/3716/bigfoot-networks-announces-3rd-gen-killer-nic-killer-2100)

Anyone know if this review was canceled or what happened to it?

I'm on the hunt for a new NIC (on board doesn't support jumbo frames) and I have to admit I'm curious if this puppy is even 1% better than say a $30 NIC.
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Reviews ive seen on it show its a little better but not enough to justify the high price tag
 
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7Enigma

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I'm bringing this back from the dead as it's currently on sale at Newegg ($80). I did a search on Anandtech since I remember hearing something about it and sure enough got the same preview, saying next week we'll have the review. Why did this get squashed Ryan/Anand?
 
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spidey07

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7Enigma said:
I'm bringing this back from the dead as it's currently on sale at Newegg ($80). I did a search on Anandtech since I remember hearing something about it and sure enough got the same preview, saying next week we'll have the review. Why did this get squashed Ryan/Anand?
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Because it's a worthless ripoff gimmick meant to prey on "gamers".
 
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darkewaffle

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spidey07 said:
Because it's a worthless ripoff gimmick meant to prey on "gamers".
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QFT.

You can go to newegg and blindly type in a random product number in the URL and find a better upgrade than this thing. It should really only be considered as an absolute last resort, lowest priority upgrade. I don't think a dedicated NIC is a bad thing, but this silly thing is just a terrible value.
 
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7Enigma

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So wouldn't that reasoning be enough to get the review out in shorter than a 4 month time-span?
 
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xSauronx

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7Enigma said:
So wouldn't that reasoning be enough to get the review out in shorter than a 4 month time-span?
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jesus will you just buy the damn thing already or get something else? there are reviews of the first one, it makes a difference, but its pretty much not even noticeable.
 
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Lol. I think that it was the Klingon Bird of Prey.

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However, No matter what it is a Prey on the ignoramus. :thumbsdown:

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