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gixser said:Always good to hear actual real world experience. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
I'm just confused as to BigFoot's business plan. Can anyone give insight as to what they were thinking?
Definitely things would go up with other parts, in my case this was a test one of my kids boxes, as he already had 2 gig memory, a X1800XT, 4200+, Audigy 2, etc. on a Asrock dual MB, none of the other components made sense to mess with.KevinO said:The results of the review are what I expected to see.
Well you can always get better performance by getting a newer process, more / newer memory, and newer video card, but no company has ever dove into the other piece of gaming which is the network. I really didn't expect this card to bring much to the table, but you never know what ideas will spark off of this. Basically, it has to start somewhere.
The other possibility will be that it fizzles out and nothing comes of it. Personally the idea behind it is great, but like Anandtech said there are just so many other variables that are not in control of the end users.
"[In FEAR] We see a 7% increase in frame rates over the NVIDIA nForce 590SLI NIC and a 10% increase over the D-Link combination. In actual game play we found the Killer NIC to offer the most fluid experience and our ability to quickly transverse the map actually felt smoother than the other two solutions."
"[In World of Warcraft] Ping rates did improve by up to 7% (host system improvements and server variables) and this is where we did notice a difference in game play during the busy test sessions on Friday and Saturday nights."
tomstomper said:"[In FEAR] We see a 7% increase in frame rates over the NVIDIA nForce 590SLI NIC and a 10% increase over the D-Link combination. In actual game play we found the Killer NIC to offer the most fluid experience and our ability to quickly transverse the map actually felt smoother than the other two solutions."
We witnessed improvements from 4% to 10% in these titles when compared to our standard D-Link PCI NIC. This sounds impressive and was a slight surprise to us actually. However, we did not see or feel any real differences in our game play experiences due to increased frame rates from the Killer NIC or by simply overclocking our video card.
no need to be a dick about it.Met-AL said:Kinda odd how you guys picked F.E.A.R. to showcase your product, eh?
But what do I know, I am not an engineer, just a guy with the wallet.
g33zy said:no need to be a dick about it.
Another area of frustration was the fact that we could not use FNapps. This is the number two feature on the card and from all indications accounts for a large portion of the card's cost. This feature has been hyped ad nauseam since the inception of the card and we still do not have one working applet to test. In theory, this feature sets the card apart and could become a viable reason to own the card depending upon your needs.
Its not being a !!!!!!, all i'm saying is when you are pulling the sarcasm and rolling your eyes its not benefiting the situation.Met-AL said:Trying to be the first NIC !!!!!!?
I am not being a dick about it. The product does virtually nothing to improve anything, except in one game. What if ATi or nVidia released a video card that only accelerated F.E.A.R and nothing else?
Good luck selling that NIC.
g33zy said:All i'm saying is that I like the fact that instead of creating another video card they are looking for different ways to improve the gaming experience.
Met-AL said:umm...but they didn't improve the gaming experience
we did a blind performance test in WoW with a third party. The third party had no idea their on-board NIC had been replaced with the Killer NIC. The first reaction was a question asking if an additional one gigabyte of RAM had been added to the system or if the video card had been changed.
bob said:Rip on me for this if you like, but I really fail to see how the killer nic is going to give $300-$400 worth of improvement in my online gaming experiance.
Boscoh said:I have no doubt that there is some good technology on the card, and that it cost a lot of money to develop said technology. I don't think it's a shoddy product, I just think that there is not enough justification to stomach the price tag right now. Hopefully this will change though. I see this product as more of an enabler of better future gaming experiences, rather than a solution to current performance issues.
Remember too, that the US is wayyy behind on Internet connection speeds as compared to the rest of the world. As we catch up and our multiplayer gaming pipes get bigger, we may see this card become a more useful thing to have.
protias said:I'm still trying to get beyond that fact that the fastest part of a network is the slowest part. So if I am getting pings of 100 in a game (without anything else running on my network), a new NIC (unless the thing in dying) is not going to help here, it is the connection in between.
YeOldeStonecat said:I have seen myself, using the same game server, using the same spec'd PC, a difference of as much as 10ms....by using different NICs. Same exact PC specs, same exact connection, same exact game, same exact server...different NICs.
Xipher said:10ms is a big difference that may have simply been caused by a change in route due to congestion. To truly test this you need an entirely self contained network.
Scratch the network, just drop a crossover between the client and the server.
tomstomper said:I'm happy to talk about 'how' does it do this... (as I'm an engineer), but in your hypothetical, you wanted to know why you should buy.
Wanna talk tech, that's where I live.
TS