Killer NIC

[Running]

this is the card im talking about
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does anyone have it, or is there a review on it? what exactly does it do? seems extremely pricy for something that supposedly just gives you beter ping in games

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

reposted a lot already

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Here's some
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1921983&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1905700&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1896475&enterthread=y

 

[Running]

ah sorry maybe should have done a search lol

 

[Ika]

Mostly gimmick. Sure, it helps some, but it sure as hell isn't worth the money.

 

[Tsuwamono]

ya it helps if your completely retarded and your objective is to put the most expensive things in your PC just so you can say.. hey look guys... see that? 1 weeks pay.. see that? 3 weeks pay... see that? 6 weeks pay... sweet eh?

 

[JackBurton]

If you want the networking guys to all laugh at you when you try and show off your cool new "KillerNIC" purchase, then yes, by all means, get one. The only thing you'll prove by buying this moronic product is that "gamers" are about as dumb as a box of rocks and will buy ANYTHING. The ONLY thing this product is good for is subtracting $280 from your bank account, that's it!

Oh, and those Newegg "reviews" I'm sure are from employees of the company that make the card. That, or just some lying mofos. This product will give you ZERO performance gains, GUARANTEED.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
If you want the networking guys to all laugh at you when you try and show off your cool new "KillerNIC" purchase, then yes, by all means, get one. The only thing you'll prove by buying this moronic product is that "gamers" are about as dumb as a box of rocks and will buy ANYTHING. The ONLY thing this product is good for is subtracting $280 from your bank account, that's it!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833342001

but...but...look at teh revi3wz!

"Nice ping and FPS improvement, about a 20 fps increase."

"After installing, I have seen an increase of 20-30 fps."

"Overall this is a investment well worth your time. And my computer doesn't crash when running multiple programs."

"soon people will regret this thing ever exists when they meet me in games."

Well, they sold at least 8. I think Bigfoot made up all their costs right there!

:laugh:

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: JackBurton
If you want the networking guys to all laugh at you when you try and show off your cool new "KillerNIC" purchase, then yes, by all means, get one. The only thing you'll prove by buying this moronic product is that "gamers" are about as dumb as a box of rocks and will buy ANYTHING. The ONLY thing this product is good for is subtracting $280 from your bank account, that's it!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833342001

but...but...look at teh revi3wz!

Yeah, no sh!t. I just edited my post to include that crap. :|

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: JackBurton
If you want the networking guys to all laugh at you when you try and show off your cool new "KillerNIC" purchase, then yes, by all means, get one. The only thing you'll prove by buying this moronic product is that "gamers" are about as dumb as a box of rocks and will buy ANYTHING. The ONLY thing this product is good for is subtracting $280 from your bank account, that's it!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833342001

but...but...look at teh revi3wz!

"Nice ping and FPS improvement, about a 20 fps increase."

"After installing, I have seen an increase of 20-30 fps."

"Overall this is a investment well worth your time. And my computer doesn't crash when running multiple programs."

"soon people will regret this thing ever exists when they meet me in games."

Well, they sold at least 8. I think Bigmoot made up all their costs right there!

:laugh:

This has GOT to be the biggest scam I've seen in a loooong time. Unbelievable.

 

[Auric]

Yeah, but the market exists (especially with the flamboyantly gay heat sink) thanks to all the equally pointless windowed cases. I can't believe that fad isn't dead yet. Put a fork in it, it's done! Moreover, "I can't believe it's not whipped beef tallow".

 

[BW86]

$280 for a nic card? NO THANKS

 

[Schadenfroh]

Another new member posting about the killer nic, amazing marketing!

 

[Cynicist]

Yeah, all new members are just bots created by companies to periodically let everyone know about their new product/service/whatever. Hmm or maybe people hear about this thing and come to a forum associated with a tech review site to see if this new thing is worthwhile. AT'ers are starting to annoy me.

 

[0roo0roo]

no one could awp whore before this nic, oh wait....

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: JackBurton


Oh, and those Newegg "reviews" I'm sure are from employees of the company that make the card. That, or just some lying mofos. This product will give you ZERO performance gains, GUARANTEED.

What you did not believe the review about reducing ping times for satellite broadband?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: JackBurton


Oh, and those Newegg "reviews" I'm sure are from employees of the company that make the card. That, or just some lying mofos. This product will give you ZERO performance gains, GUARANTEED.

What you did not believe the review about reducing ping times for satellite broadband?

Well that's different. I believe it accomplishes this by actually bringing the satellite closer. It truely is an AMAZING card.

 

[0roo0roo]

hehe yea that one was priceless

 

[Sable]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1921983&enterthread=y

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
WOW! Another first post from someone who's extremely interested in the KillerNIC! Couldn't possibly be yet ANOTHER shill, could it?

God damn viral marketing. Marketers are Satan's bastard stepchildren that he's only allowed to see every other weekend because their mother doesn't think he's a bad enough influence.

And no, I don't know what, technically, bastard stepchildren are.

First reply, shot down. Absolute genius.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: rudder

What you did not believe the review about reducing ping times for satellite broadband?

Listen, I'm hardly an expert in these matters but what's important here is the fundamentals which I do understand well.

Take a look at the past. We had the "trick" Trionnes bus master drivers (which were tuned to inflate winbench scores on ata disk performance). Hard drive manufacturers (WDC) in the past tuned their firmwares to do the same thing making the benchmarks stand in front of the competition whereas the real world performance was not faster in the slightest bit. Then we had the infamous "detonator" fiasco with NV and 3DMark. So where does that leave things? The unexplored territory of networking hardware. Gotta give them credit - they're smart as they have tricked a lot of folks - some surprisingly "knowledgeable" about pc hardware, but ignoring the basic fundamentals and physical layers that will prove this product to be 100% snake oil in all claims.

Those that are suckered into buying it will defend their losses until it's proven - beyond a reasonable doubt - that its claims are ficticious and the drivers installed on the victim's systems are making all applications including tracert and ping - report bogus and skewed results.

It's not hard to realize and do - c'mon guys, I'm hardly a guru.

 

[SilthDraeth]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: rudder

What you did not believe the review about reducing ping times for satellite broadband?

Listen, I'm hardly an expert in these matters but what's important here is the fundamentals which I do understand well.

Take a look at the past. We had the "trick" Trionnes bus master drivers (which were tuned to inflate winbench scores on ata disk performance). Hard drive manufacturers (WDC) in the past tuned their firmwares to do the same thing making the benchmarks stand in front of the competition whereas the real world performance was not faster in the slightest bit. Then we had the infamous "detonator" fiasco with NV and 3DMark. So where does that leave things? The unexplored territory of networking hardware. Gotta give them credit - they're smart as they have tricked a lot of folks - some surprisingly "knowledgeable" about pc hardware, but ignoring the basic fundamentals and physical layers that will prove this product to be 100% snake oil in all claims.

Those that are suckered into buying it will defend their losses until it's proven - beyond a reasonable doubt - that its claims are ficticious and the drivers installed on the victim's systems are making all applications including tracert and ping - report bogus and skewed results.

It's not hard to realize and do - c'mon guys, I'm hardly a guru.

QFT.

There is absolutely no way, that changing the NIC in a system is going to send pings faster across the same physical medium.

They are trying to sell this NIC as if it has the benefits of a good CISCO router built right into your PC. That isn't where the bottleneck in networking is. It is the physical connection that our ISP's give to us, and the bandwidth they limit users to.

The comment about speeding up a satellite connection has to be the most priceless review on newegg.

 

[R Nilla]

My husband bought me one of these after I started complaining about the framerates I was getting when I was playing WoW, D&D and CoH. This thing is better than any silly necklace or flowers he could have gotten me. I love this thing! All gaming is better with it. Now, make more programs for it!!!

not only will it reduce latency but it will reduce your framerates as well!!!! :disgust:

HA!

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: Cynicist
Yeah, all new members are just bots created by companies to periodically let everyone know about their new product/service/whatever. Hmm or maybe people hear about this thing and come to a forum associated with a tech review site to see if this new thing is worthwhile. AT'ers are starting to annoy me.

Please try a li'l harder to live up to your moniker

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: rudder

What you did not believe the review about reducing ping times for satellite broadband?

Well that's different. I believe it accomplishes this by actually bringing the satellite closer. It truely is an AMAZING card.

It uses wormhole technology. Duh!

Originally posted by: Sable
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1921983&enterthread=y

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore

snip

And no, I don't know what, technically, bastard stepchildren are.

First reply, shot down. Absolute genius.

There's nothing confusing about a bastard stepchild: a kid whelped out of wedlock who's mum then marries some other dude et voila! Hopefully the kid will be a "Ginger" so that when he is beaten it is in the manner of the proverbial red-headed (bastard) stepchild.

 

[corkyg]

About the only guaranteed kill for this gizmo is your wallet!