Um no. You actually see some benefits from getting a higher end video card and memory. Their target is Alienware buyers.
Hell at least Alienware gives you a cool case to look at. Even with a windowed case, you'd have to be bent upside down or tilting the case over to even get a poor angle view of the heatsink on this card (although with a BTX windowed case it might be easier to see).
While its too expensive to want at this point, the fact that it runs Linux on a 400 mhz cpu sounds really intriguing. Its like a computer inside of a computer! Just think of all the custom apps that could be made for it.
I certainly don't think its worth $280, but for the guy that has to have everything, I don't see why not?
It's not like people criticize ferraris for being overkill....they'd rather gush over them.
And if you read the article you'd have seen that you get framerate and ping benefits from getting the NIC because the network logic is being handled by Linux loaded on the onboard memory. And you failed to see the analogy in the sense that you get marginal fps benefits from the highest end video cards and memory, and the high price tag is comparable to squeezing out that last bit of performance.
lol, people are actually falling for it.
gotta hand it to them, they know fools will buy it. There's even shills on forums hyping it up.
Buyer beware, this is a scam.
gotta hand it to them, they know fools will buy it. There's even shills on forums hyping it up.
Buyer beware, this is a scam.
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lol...I jsut saw the 'shills' on the forum...I thought you meant other forums..not ours:Q
bastards:|
bastards:|
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
rawr:lips:
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Your being too generous....400mhz what? we don't even know what kind of chip it is. That makes all the difference in the world. For all we know it could be an old pentium II and it won't a difference at all for gaming.
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Your being too generous....400mhz what? we don't even know what kind of chip it is. That makes all the difference in the world. For all we know it could be an old pentium II and it won't a difference at all for gaming.
Why wouldn't it make a difference? It's added processing power...apparently enough to offload some from the CPU.
A while ago, the physics card was the talk of the town. Then it comes out, and games run slower, and have a few more particles. Very few gamers are going to pay for something to slow their games down.
This is for the same people that buy ram with super fast timings, just to squeeze that miniscule little bit out, to get that extra half frame. Mostly to brag about.
If I hadnt read on several independent review sites that it's actually having a positive effect, then I wouldn't be saying this. More extensive testing is surely needed. But so far, so good....so I don't get why you're so SURE that it does nothing, when everything I've seen so far has shown that it does?
I'd buy it if I had money to wipe my ass with. But I don't, so I'll continue to use onboard LAN ports as long as their decent enough.
If the product was in a $50-100 range I might seriously consider it, considering I'm willing to spend that amount on sound when considering gaming.
$280 is ridiculous though, I will agree. Definitely for the chumps who spend $200 per GB of RAM or spend money on products the likes of the Fatality version X-Fi.
If the product was in a $50-100 range I might seriously consider it, considering I'm willing to spend that amount on sound when considering gaming.
$280 is ridiculous though, I will agree. Definitely for the chumps who spend $200 per GB of RAM or spend money on products the likes of the Fatality version X-Fi.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Your being too generous....400mhz what? we don't even know what kind of chip it is. That makes all the difference in the world. For all we know it could be an old pentium II and it won't a difference at all for gaming.
Why wouldn't it make a difference? It's added processing power...apparently enough to offload some from the CPU.
A while ago, the physics card was the talk of the town. Then it comes out, and games run slower, and have a few more particles. Very few gamers are going to pay for something to slow their games down.
This is for the same people that buy ram with super fast timings, just to squeeze that miniscule little bit out, to get that extra half frame. Mostly to brag about.
If I hadnt read on several independent review sites that it's actually having a positive effect, then I wouldn't be saying this. More extensive testing is surely needed. But so far, so good....so I don't get why you're so SURE that it does nothing, when everything I've seen so far has shown that it does?
well everything is wrong so far. what the hell was ign smokign when the not only benchmarked on, but ALSO ADMITTED TO BENCHMARKING ON, DELL OPTIPLEXES:laugh:
Not only did they admit that the test was inherently flawed because of the crappy hardware, but that the difference was moot in that situation.
Basically, the hardware was never compared or critqued fairly or even adaquately, so for the mena time any numebrs are horse****
BTW, the 60% improvement claims on machine that run FEAR at less than 25fps avg was hilarious and even they didn't sound serious.
No the translation is: You have no idea what you're talking about so quit commenting on things you know nothing about.Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Your analogies are AWFUL. Let me see if I can be just a little bit clearer. You will get ZERO performance benefits from this card. ZERO. Not minimal, not one extra FPS, nothing. People buy $1000 video solutions because they want to play at a higher resolution with more eye candy. They actually get SOMETHING out of their purchase. The same with memory and high end CPUs. With this card you get NOTHING in the form of performance. NOTHING. And if you think you do, like I said, I have a bridge to sell you. You won't be able to tell the difference between the built in Intel Gigabit NIC and this crap. Guaranteed.
I can't believe I'm even arguing about this.
Originally posted by: JackBurton
No the translation is: You have no idea what you're talking about so quit commenting on things you know nothing about.Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Listen L1FE, I have a REALLY sweet bridge to sell you. Don't worry, judging by your responses, I know you want to be the first one in line to purchase it. I think I have a few people commenting on how great of a bridge it is just incase you had any doubts if I actually had one. I might be able to even provide some benchmarks comparing it to other bridges my friends have. It even has a heatsink on it.
And your analogy fails because you get NO benefits from this NIC. That is the whole joke.
Translation: I believe whatever I want to so hate hate hate hate hate
Like I said, I'm sure the benefits are marginal. But everything on the net so far has shown that however minimal a benefit it is from dropping your ping from 50ms to 40ms, and raising your frame rate from 85fps to 87fps, it still is a net gain. It has a 400mhz processor on it, that can run its own apps - firewall, anti-virus, hell, maybe even bittorrent.
I sure as hell ain't going to pay $300 for a glorified NIC. But I'm sure as hell not going to spend $800 on a dual graphics card just so I can run at a higher resolution either. Doesn't mean I'm gonna hate on those that do.
Your analogies are AWFUL. Let me see if I can be just a little bit clearer. You will get ZERO performance benefits from this card. ZERO. Not minimal, not one extra FPS, nothing. People buy $1000 video solutions because they want to play at a higher resolution with more eye candy. They actually get SOMETHING out of their purchase. The same with memory and high end CPUs. With this card you get NOTHING in the form of performance. NOTHING. And if you think you do, like I said, I have a bridge to sell you. You won't be able to tell the difference between the built in Intel Gigabit NIC and this crap. Guaranteed.
I can't believe I'm even arguing about this.
Will you please STOP trying to spout off your opinion as fact? If you know so much about it, prove it wrong with at least a drop of empirical evidence, rather than just driveling over and over how you assume it makes ZERO difference.
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