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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MrRiplEy[H] on August 07, 2006, 11:59:50 AM
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A network card that will offload udp traffic from your gaming machine..
Too good to be true? Well at least someone is trying:
Snip (http://www.gdhardware.com/interviews/bigfoot/killer/001.htm)
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There was a discussion about this here a while ago...
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177537&highlight=bigfoot (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177537&highlight=bigfoot)
Sounds good, but...?
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Skuzzy has good points there but at least the article is now concentrating on saving cpu cycles from the gaming pc.
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Saving CPU cycles? Gaming traffic is usually <1% of a network cards utilisation. However, if you still think you need a good card dig up one of the old DEC 10/100 PCI NICs, they had good buffers and a fairly smart chip on them.
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I've known about bigfoot for over a year.
They presented their business pitch to a MBA - High tech strategy class at UT (Austin). That was some time before they even got their first round of financing.
The comment from Happysin about the server-class NIC is spot-on, the guys even said that that's where they got the idea.
After they finished the presentation and left the classroom, the professor and most of the class commented it wasn't a solid business idea. Even leaving the technical issues aside all their market estimates were based on the assumption that they would get great reviews and some sort of editor's choice award from Tom's hardware and similar sites.
The pitch was basically...
1. Introduce the product because a small number of enthusiasts will spend a ton of money on overpriced items.
2. Market research shows that a good review gets you x number of sales.
3. After we get glowing reviews we'll sell x amount of cards
= profit!!!
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/39309975/m/996008630831?r=389003830831#389003830831
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For some reason I don't think the reason for lag is in user's end but in the network and the many nodes it's made of and the packets can only go so fast from one point to another...
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