Most Gig Chipsets have "Checksum" offloading. a fraction of the work that needs to be done.
and no nic I know of (and I've played with a lot of em') does Interrupts to the WSP layer when data arrives. (Yes WSP_Select WSP_Receive... all the crappy windows WSP (aka winsock) layer crap.
So, me likes that idea...
lol, that's just funny. as a 'real' killer owner, i can say it doesn' t blast 500Volts.. (sadly).
It also doesn't fix Server issues... but i can say that others on the server lag 'worse' than i do when stuff starts going south.
Regardless, I don't game enough to say one way or the other, i do write apps in linux a lot (web design/etc.) so, for me i'm in it for FNA.
no, there are some mods in the kernel they sent out (minor ones). but i agree, i don't see any way of hositng an os on the killer: and that's okay. since i have the source kernel, i know what they have and don't have, and can compile knowning the kernel tree they are using. but if i wanted to put my own kernel on there i don't think it could be done. fortunately, that's not what my project needs: i just need a good platform for dev.. and a cheap card (not $1500) to run it on.
The thing that attracted me to this card from the beginning was it's pricetag. ITS A CHEAP-ASS DEVELOPMENT CARD! I literally was looking at an MPC8349 Dev board from Freescale ($1500, no sh**), and found this puppy had a freescale embedded proc,with linux, with windows and linux drivers...
so i'm off to the races for under $250, and enjoying every second of it. I expect i will make my project into an fnapp, cause i suspect gamers care about a micro-web-server, to run micro-transactions... lol but very cool dev system for the price for sure.
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Most Gig Chipsets have "Checksum" offloading. a fraction of the work that needs to be done. and no nic I know of (and I've played with a lot of em') does Interrupts to the WSP layer when data arrives. (Yes WSP_Select WSP_Receive... all the crappy windows WSP (aka winsock) layer crap. So, me likes that idea...
lol, that's just funny. as a 'real' killer owner, i can say it doesn' t blast 500Volts.. (sadly). It also doesn't fix Server issues... but i can say that others on the server lag 'worse' than i do when stuff starts going south. Regardless, I don't game enough to say one way or the other, i do write apps in linux a lot (web design/etc.) so, for me i'm in it for FNA.
no, there are some mods in the kernel they sent out (minor ones). but i agree, i don't see any way of hositng an os on the killer: and that's okay. since i have the source kernel, i know what they have and don't have, and can compile knowning the kernel tree they are using. but if i wanted to put my own kernel on there i don't think it could be done. fortunately, that's not what my project needs: i just need a good platform for dev.. and a cheap card (not $1500) to run it on.
The thing that attracted me to this card from the beginning was it's pricetag. ITS A CHEAP-ASS DEVELOPMENT CARD! I literally was looking at an MPC8349 Dev board from Freescale ($1500, no sh**), and found this puppy had a freescale embedded proc,with linux, with windows and linux drivers... so i'm off to the races for under $250, and enjoying every second of it. I expect i will make my project into an fnapp, cause i suspect gamers care about a micro-web-server, to run micro-transactions... lol but very cool dev system for the price for sure.