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Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slave-to-the-ping-number dept.

Cujo writes "The folks at GDHardare have an interview with Bigfoot Networks discussing the pending release of their Killer Network Card which is said to greatly reduce in-game latency. According to the Interview, this card uses a Linux-based subsystem to do its magic."

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  1. Oooo... Killer by snowgirl · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG, they named it the "KillerNIC"? Like, does this kind of advertising actually work?

    "This NIC is so hardcore it KILLED SOMEONE!"

    I can just imagine their second version coming with a muzzle a la Silence of the Lambs.

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  2. Ted Stevens and I believe the card works by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, yes, I'd have to weigh in with everyone else, it's snakeoil. Basically, any product designed entirely by a marketting group is going to be snakeoil, and this definitely was.

    Everyone knows the internets is a series of tubes. Well, this card hurls your data through the tubes with such force that it can't possibly get stuck.

    Make sure not to point the jack at anyone. You'll shoot someone's eye out.

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