Killing Your Internet with Killer Ethernet @ Techgage

It really does suck when your network card goes out.  More so when the card is a custom onboard solution designed to enhance game play by offloading expensive network calculations from the CPU to the NPU.

I never knew that moving packets could cause so much CPU overhead, than again have you ever tried moving data to a Atom powered NAS over a gigabit connection?  Ya SLOOOOOWWW.

We’re PC enthusiasts. We buy bigger graphics cards to improve our gaming, better audio cards to improve our immersion, and feature-richier gaming peripherals to improve our skill. Is it so unreasonable, then, to purchase an Ethernet card that promises to deliver the best-possible net experience for gamers? It’s an oft-debated topic, and one that doesn’t have a clear conclusion.

The Killer NIC has a benefit but most users will never see it.

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