NICs

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As far as actual results you would see..., unless you were actually directly connected to the hosting server on your LAN I don't think you'd see much improvement, if any, at all. That being said, this area is admittedly not my strongest area; but I do believe that your ISP connection would have MUCH more to do with it then the NIC card that you're using.
 
Not worth the money. If you have $100 to drop upgrade something else or save the money. Dedicated NICs are just not necessary for gaming.
 
That BigFoot thing is freakin' huge compared to the other Killers... looks cool, but must perform like ****
 
Those seem to have a hardware firewall (less stress on the computer) another soundcard (could be less stress on the computer) and probably a pretty good NIC. While I'm sure it would be an improvement over onboard NICs, I doubt there'd be any real-world increases. You'd probably get more of a boost from using the sound card and firewall than actual network performance.

Also, remember internet speeds are typically only a fraction of full network speeds. Even a fairly low-end NIC should be able to get onlien without any problems. Now if you were to use a bunch of these cards on a LAN, I suspect you'd see some differences.
 
The_Other_One said:
Also, remember internet speeds are typically only a fraction of full network speeds. Even a fairly low-end NIC should be able to get onlien without any problems. Now if you were to use a bunch of these cards on a LAN, I suspect you'd see some differences.
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hes right...
unless you have a 1001 Mbps internet connection there would be no reason to upgrade from 100 to 1000. 1Gbps would probably help if you were in a LAN environment with friends... but then everyone's hardware would need to be 1Gbps and your switch too, but probably not necessary i don't really game at all and if i do its online and not in a lan environment.... but i wouldn't think that you would need to spend your money on this. a stick of ram would be a better investment if you needed it.
 
ScottALot said:
I have no friends :(
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Then go out and get some friends...


if you really want awesome data throughput, get dual NICs and bond them. Then again, you need the processor power to unicast tons of connections out.

Really, these NICs are a total and complete waste of your money.
 
I have plenty of friends... but they're the sports type, not the techie type. And when I do get techie friends, they don't know shit and pretend they've been to huge tournaments and stuff and that just gets annoying fast.
 
ScottALot said:
I have plenty of friends... but they're the sports type, not the techie type. And when I do get techie friends, they don't know shit and pretend they've been to huge tournaments and stuff and that just gets annoying fast.
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techie tournaments? You lost me on that one...:confused:
 
They claim they've been to multi-thousand dollar gaming tournaments, etc... when I know more about the game than they do.

Is this topic still good??
 
diduknowthat said:
Dedicated NICs are just not necessary for gaming.
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+1, i ran my LAN on 10/100 for ages and never had any problems, got good pings and games ran fine. unless you want a million different networks on one computer/server, i really dont see the point in dedicated NIC's, onboard LAN works just as well IMO.
 
when gaming online very little data is transferred from client/server so it is almost always CPU/RAM intensive over it being an issue with how many packets of data it can send/receive. The only time it would make a difference is on the dedicated server, and even then it wouldn't make that much of a difference.
 
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