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Killer NIC Hands-On Testing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-think-it's-fishy dept.

basscomm writes "IGN has gotten their hands on the 'Killer' NIC recently mentioned here on Slashdot and have written a two part article detailing their impressions: 'The performance boost we got out of the Killer NIC in this testing exceeds Bigfoot Networks' own claims of 10-15% gains by a long shot and certainly seems to validate the potential of the technology. We suspect, however, that the fact that these computers were marginal at running F.E.A.R. in the first place had an impact in the comparison. In many cases the non-Killer NIC machine became absolutely bogged down as particles flew and grenades exploded, enough so that the entire machine would hang for a moment as things got sorted out. Obviously this murdered average fps figures.'"

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  1. Snake Oil by WndrBr3d · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not to flame, but seriously, are these jokers serious?

    Since the card runs Linux would it REALLY be that hard to have it intercept incoming 'ping' requests and respond from it's TCP/IP stack immediately, thus lowering the ping time if your CPU is under load?

    My bet is it does what I suggested, then proceeds to pass the response to the OS TCP/IP stack and intercepts the response and disposes of it.

    I can't believe people still buy this Snake Oil.