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Sunner

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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Originally posted by: Madwand1
Yeah, suggesting physical violence is the uber cool and highly intelligent. :disgust:

Would I recommend the Killer NIC? Well, I don't think so :). I just have an interest in NIC performance/benchmarks at this time, and it's some additional fun. There's no need to get angry or hugely emotionally involved about any of this. It's fun and games isn't it?
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Mad, I wasn't serious about punching someone in the face. I'd hate to be in front of a judge when he asks, "Why did you assault this person?" "Well your honor, he recommended the KillerNIC to me. He said it was the ultimate gaming NIC, which we all know is a lie. So I punched him." ;)
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Well, look at it this way.
If you did, I would put up a site in your honor for it.
 
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Madwand1

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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Mad, I wasn't serious about punching someone in the face. I'd hate to be in front of a judge when he asks, "Why did you assault this person?" "Well your honor, he recommended the KillerNIC to me. He said it was the ultimate gaming NIC, which we all know is a lie. So I punched him." ;)
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Glad to hear it. So I guess we won't hear about the pre-emptive strike defense in the news either :)
 
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Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: JackBurton
I think I might have to punch someone in the face if they even suggested this crap to me. Why? Because when someone says, "The 'KillerNIC' is the ultimate gaming network card," I translate that into, "You look like a moron, and I think you're stupid enough to buy this snake oil product, and you're SO stupid I think you'll even pay $300 for it." That's grounds for a punch in the face. I can't belive anyone is even taking this thing seriously! I'll rig a machine in a blind test with a 10/100 card and another machine with the "KillerNIC", and I'm sure no one would be able to tell the differnce when gaming. I'm not even going to include a 1Gb NIC in the test. That's how worthless I think this product is. And this is on a LAN, which most people playing games don't play on. Most people play over the net which makes this product look even more rediculous.
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wow.....I like it when you get angry:heart:
 
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spidey07

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Those reviews are complete and utter crap.

I'll give these morons pushing this card. they are hitting the forums pretty dang hard. Coincidence? I think not. They're following marketing 101.
 
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imported_Lothar

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Those reviews are complete and utter crap.

I'll give these morons pushing this card. they are hitting the forums pretty dang hard. Coincidence? I think not. They're following marketing 101.
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Agreed.
 
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futuristicmonkey

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I can't wait for this thing to come out, drop a few hundred dollars in price, then be put to use, hacked, as a pf firewall from within Windows :)
 
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InlineFive

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Originally posted by: futuristicmonkey
I can't wait for this thing to come out, drop a few hundred dollars in price, then be put to use, hacked, as a pf firewall from within Windows :)
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And then you'll realize that if having a pf firewall is that important to you that you should have just bought a computer to use as a firewall for your entire network.
 
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Brazen

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Originally posted by: futuristicmonkey
I can't wait for this thing to come out, drop a few hundred dollars in price, then be put to use, hacked, as a pf firewall from within Windows :)
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I'm going to pack six of 'em in a computer. Use one as an Apache server, one as a Samba server ... :)

You could even enable q-trunking support and use one as a firewall for your entire network.
 
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azev

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I remember a while ago, intel had a smart nic card which has its own iop and memory.
I believe they cost about the same as this killer nic. I've seen them used on a very busy webserver during that time.
 
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imported_EdgeOfDetroit

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Well here's a better review... maybe these KillerNics aren't total bullcrap... this is the first review site to review on a high-end PC. IGN tested in a low-to-mid PC for some lame reason, which makes me ignore their results. Anand supposedly has a KillerNic to test according to the Killer/Bigfoot people, so at least we'll eventually get a real good review of it.

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/networking/bigfoot/killer/review/001.htm

But here's what I expect Anand will tell us on the conclusions page:

If you have a super-high end PC with every component dripping on the bleeding edge, and you still want more performance, then blow $280. Otherwise upgrade your video card or something.

If there's some good FNA apps that could quickly change... but until then... ya.
 
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Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: EdgeOfDetroit
Well here's a better review... maybe these KillerNics aren't total bullcrap... this is the first review site to review on a high-end PC. IGN tested in a low-to-mid PC for some lame reason, which makes me ignore their results. Anand supposedly has a KillerNic to test according to the Killer/Bigfoot people, so at least we'll eventually get a real good review of it.

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/networking/bigfoot/killer/review/001.htm

But here's what I expect Anand will tell us on the conclusions page:

If you have a super-high end PC with every component dripping on the bleeding edge, and you still want more performance, then blow $280. Otherwise upgrade your video card or something.

If there's some good FNA apps that could quickly change... but until then... ya.
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LOFL....the barrage continues:laugh:

BTW, no one blows money for the hell of it. Even if founded on the most frail forms of price/performance justification, there is always a REASON.


BTW, nobody speaks for Anand. The man has a right to a mind of his own, and even I won't put words in his mouth.....


...thats for the laugh btw:lips:
 
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Jeff7

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: EdgeOfDetroit
Well here's a better review... maybe these KillerNics aren't total bullcrap... this is the first review site to review on a high-end PC. IGN tested in a low-to-mid PC for some lame reason, which makes me ignore their results. Anand supposedly has a KillerNic to test according to the Killer/Bigfoot people, so at least we'll eventually get a real good review of it.

Ridiculously long link

But here's what I expect Anand will tell us on the conclusions page:

If you have a super-high end PC with every component dripping on the bleeding edge, and you still want more performance, then blow $280. Otherwise upgrade your video card or something.

If there's some good FNA apps that could quickly change... but until then... ya.
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LOFL....the barrage continues:laugh:

BTW, no one blows money for the hell of it. Even if founded on the most frail forms of price/performance justification, there is always a REASON.


BTW, nobody speaks for Anand. The man has a right to a mind of his own, and even I won't put words in his mouth.....


...thats for the laugh btw:lips:
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Well come on, at least there's photo proof that at least 1 of these cards does in fact truly exist.
 
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gsellis

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After looking at this, I suspect that a simple 3Com 955 equivalent (or is it 995) with the RISC processor for doing on-NIC IPSec encode/decode will be as fast as this card.

Madwand1 - you meant Mb, not MB. If you really mean you are getting that throughput across the internet, I call shens. That is 640Mb/s for your max, which is getting high on the Gig-E range (collisions, etc.). And that exceeds the standard cable connection of 6Mb/s down (usually under 1Mb/s up.) Sounds more like a local LAN connection running at 1000Mbps.

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
As ridiculous as mispelling ridiculous? :p
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But not as ridiculous as misspelling misspelling. :p (ok, you did it almost a month ago)
 
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n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: gsellis
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
As ridiculous as mispelling ridiculous? :p
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But not as ridiculous as misspelling misspelling. :p (ok, you did it almost a month ago)
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:laugh: I'll spell that word correctly eventually. :eek:
 
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Madwand1

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Originally posted by: gsellis
Madwand1 - you meant Mb, not MB. If you really mean you are getting that throughput across the internet, I call shens. That is 640Mb/s for your max, which is getting high on the Gig-E range (collisions, etc.). And that exceeds the standard cable connection of 6Mb/s down (usually under 1Mb/s up.) Sounds more like a local LAN connection running at 1000Mbps.
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Did you read the linked thread and the context? I'm pretty clear there. Of course this particular test was on a LAN. Don't confuse it further by changing the units and including your own assumptions. Sometimes I've written "B" when I meant "b" by accident, but I didn't this time.
 
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EODetroit

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
BTW edge of detroit......nice job with the join date:roll:
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WTF is that supposed to mean? I normally post from this account but I've been home sick the past two days... what's your problem?

LOFL....the barrage continues

BTW, no one blows money for the hell of it. Even if founded on the most frail forms of price/performance justification, there is always a REASON.
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Barrage? Again I don't even think you know what you're talking about... you're just posting so that your post count goes ++ ? Did you actually read the GD Hardware review?

Done here...
 
JackMDS

JackMDS

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So human average Simple Reaction Time 250msec. SD 30msec.

The reaction time in a game is Not Simple Reaction Time I did not measure specificalyy avarge game reaction time (I did measure hundreds of time simple, and complex reaction times) it, my estimate would be that it that in fast action game the Reaction Time is about 600 msec. with a much larges SD than Simple Reaction Time.

I just read an article about the "Killer NIC".

The result between a regular NIC, and the "Killer" showed that the "Killer" is faster (across five 3D action games) in an average of 3.4 msec. SD 9 msec.

To think that such a difference would result in improving gaming is delusional at best.

:sun:
 
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