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Remember the whole "gaming network card" that people were talking about here before, and how it was a waste of money?

I was browsing through newegg and they have it for $280, but the thing is, there are tons of 5 star reviews for it! I would think that this product would fail instantly, but read some of the reviews.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833342001

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loque

I can't believe people are being duped into buying this. They must have more money than sense.

For $250 they could easily upgrade to the next level of service with their DSL provider, or another stick of RAM, or perhaps to invest in SLI or Crossfire. Anything than a $250 NIC

For people seriously considering this: the extra nanosecond that this card saves in transmission time (if it even saves that) will not be added on to your life.

Trizoy

Well IF this product worked, we need to ask ourselves why doesn't a regular NIC work the same? The speeds ARE the same as the speed lies with the connection to the ISP. How can this card do more than a regular card? This is complete BS if card manuf havent been optimizing the cards to their fullest.
I don't know about you but I feel screwed.

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tlarkin

I guess the processors on the card free up bandwidth on the PCI bus and processor cycles???

It could perhaps get rid of any bottle neck of a poorly configured system. These are just guesses though, I don't know too much about that product.

The_Other_One

This was posted a few months back(though not from newegg) I can't beleive people have actually purchased it O.O

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The_Other_One

This was posted a few months back(though not from newegg) I can't beleive people have actually purchased it

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SirKenin

It gives priority to gaming packets if I recall correctly. For the amount of online gaming I do my onboard Intel NIC works great.

Let me tell you a story about an X800 Pro or for Pete's sake at least let me cut and paste something. I'm bored. *sigh*

tlarkin

whats the difference between controlling network traffic at the controller or at the router?

I have QoS on my router, so I can assign bandwidth to individual applications. If i want to play counter-strike I can give it carte blanche over everything else via router control panel.

Is there a difference that card makes?

Saurian

I see the movement of integrated NIC's from the PCI bus to a PCIe 1x lane taking away some of this products glory. Otherwise, it might be a placebo effect. I I spent 280 bucks on a damn network card, I'd better SEE SOMETHING.

It's also impossible to benchmark vs others because it deals with online gaming which is itself unable to be benchmarked scientifically.

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It looks nice and all, but I would'nt spend that much money on one.