KillerNIC M1

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  1. Lesco

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    has anyone brought one of these:

    KillerNIC M1 Network Card with 400Mhz Processing Unit, RJ-45 and USB 2.0

    and if so what are your thoughts, are you pleased with the product, what problems if any have you had with it etc, etc.

    I am considering buying one...........................................
     
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    I don't own a Killer NIC myself, but my advice is that unless you're made of money, there's no reason to buy one. Using onboard networking, not even any old PCI card, latencies over a proper gigabit network are absolutely fine. You wouldn't notice the difference. The amount of bandwidth used by playing games over a network is also so slight that the performance hit on your CPU for networking would be negligible. The only occasion when it would be worth getting a network card like the Killer would be if you're transferring masses of data over a network whilst gaming. If you do that, you're still looking at more of a performance hit in copying the files than the network adapter's CPU usage (although it's a relatively even split). The Killer doesn't solve anything a faster CPU would also solve. Given how much they cost, is it such a good deal?
     
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    Thanks very much Sam, that makes a lot of sense and is very intresting what you have said. I think I will save my money :eek:)

     
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    Good stuff, it figures that if you were considering a gaming network card, you're a gamer. The money you save by not buying one of those could earn you something else I'm sure you could make better use of.
     
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    Yes Sam I do enjoy online gaming and have done since day one really, I am one of the oldest gamers on the block.

    I started all those years ago with MUDD, then moved onto Ultima Online, and eventually got into Lineage 2 (my all time and current favorite) WoW and I am also a games master on two big american servers for WoW and Lineage.

    I have a very high spec machine with the duel grapics card setup (crossfire) and also have a 20 mb broardband connection ( currently the fastest he in the UK at the moment)
     
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    Crossfire to play WoW.... overkill methinks?
    To get 20Mbps in the UK you need to be very close to an exchange, that's just luck really. We use a 24Mbps ISP but because of the length of our phone line we can only get 1.6Mbps...
     
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