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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. RTFA by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The whole point of the thing is **there is no OS TCP/IP stack**.

    The whole networking stack runs directly on the card. 100% of all networking load is offloaded from your main CPU onto the CPU on the card.

    It is **supposed** to 'intercept incoming 'ping' requests and respond from it's TCP/IP stack immediately'.