killer k-1 nic

[fcmartin]

is there anyone useing this network card?  If so, is it a big help to aces high and if so can you help me with setting my configuration up for mine

[TheZohan]

not sure about the nic itself but its the connection the nic is connected to that is way more important. the nic can be great but if you have a horrible ISP or bandwidth the nic isnt gonna help.  most regular 10/100 nics will provide plenty of bandwidth for most needs.

[The Fugitive]

not sure about the nic itself but its the connection the nic is connected to that is way more important. the nic can be great but if you have a horrible ISP or bandwidth the nic isnt gonna help.  most regular 10/100 nics will provide plenty of bandwidth for most needs.

This from a guy with 20 years experience 

fcmartin, check out THIS THREAD. Skuzzy and a few other discuss killer nic type cards. For the most part, they are a scam and really don't help much with your connection. The best thing YOU can do is to clean up your computer as best you can.... cut back on the processes running, run spyware cleaners, virus cleaners, and defrag. As long as your computer is "tuned up" as well as you can keep it, its the best your going to get. After that, its up to the ISP and there routing systems. Get PingPlotter. Its a free program you can use to check your connection to the HTC servers. If you have a bad connection, it will show there. Post a screen shot if you want a few opinions on how it looks.

[Fulmar]

[Denholm]

*Thump*

Could've had an X-58!

[Vulcan]

I have a bridge going cheap...

[Ack-Ack]

I have a bridge going cheap...

Is it a short cut to your auntie's house?  If so, how much for the bridge?


ack-ack

[Bino]

Anything more expensive than a $25 PCI network card is a waste of money.

[Skuzzy]

Anything more expensive than a $25 PCI network card is a waste of money.

For most users, that would be true, but the server class Intel cards do offer more bang for the buck than the Killer NIC's.  At around $125.00 (U.S.), they are worth it, if you are running a heavily loaded network which is either more packet bound (thousands of packets per second) or data bound (less packets, but lots of data per packet) all being funneled through one pipe via switch or router.

[TilDeath]

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Again cracking me up with the stuff you find

[Gatr]

So GUYS???

On the nic card subject... is this kinda the same as a sound card ?  use one in a pci slot and not on the mother board to save lots a CPU cycles???????????
I moved to off board sound and it helped a TON!!!!
Thx Gatr

[Denholm]

I find the onboard networking ports to be quite adequate. I don't think you're going to free up much of anything moving away from the onboard networking.

[Skuzzy]

Onboard networking chips have most of the hardware needed built right into the chip.  The only real gains you get from an add-in PCI card is the ability for the network chip to run in parallel with the CPU. 

Although, there is not much the network chip will do in parallel with the CPU so the performance gains are usually pretty small.

Sound cards versus onboard sound chips are very different in this regard.

[Gatr]

Thanks guys
And thanks for the tip in the other thread on the sound Skuzzy... It helped a ton
Gatr

[Bino]

For most users, that would be true, but the server class Intel cards do offer more bang for the buck than the Killer NIC's.  At around $125.00 (U.S.), they are worth it, if you are running a heavily loaded network which is either more packet bound (thousands of packets per second) or data bound (less packets, but lots of data per packet) all being funneled through one pipe via switch or router.

Thanks, Skuzzy. I should have prefixed my remark with: "For a regular desktop machine..."

Since you know the heavy-lifting NICs so well, do you have a website that you trust to review them honestly?