Killer nic xeon pro

J.B · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:29

Sparx said:
So what's special about this Killer NIC crap? :/

Well its a NIC with a powerful dedicated processor and its own onboard memory so it can (in theory) take some load off the OS networking stack and things like that.

I remember reading somewhere it was powerful enough to run a firewall on its own which is an interesting idea to releave load on the OS.

In my opinion the performance increase, of which there would probably be some in some minute way, is not justified by the cost of the card itself.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:31

ill post some of the apps if u are intrested? The apps run off the nics processor and ram so does the firewall which i like becuase it means more cpu usage for gaming

Swifty55 · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:33

Please do.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:34

ok just trying to combine it all in 1 pic so i dont have to reupload

cmndr_andi · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:39

Here is good review on Anandtech. It doesn't seem to be snake oil, however it does seem to provide the most benefit for people with marginal systems that need as much extra CPU power as possible. However, such customers would not normally spend ~£80 on a NIC card, especially when they could use the same money much more effectively on a CPU or GPU upgrade.

To the OP: If I were you, I would have probably used the £80 spent on the NIC towards a Phenom II Upgrade to your system (currently using 2.5GHz Phenom 1 @3.1GHz). Such an upgrade would have provided much more performance per pound.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:41

apps right click the taskbar icon

bandwith control app

bandiwith control more

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:42

cmndr_andi said:
Here is good review on Anandtech. It doesn't seem to be snake oil, however it does seem to provide the most benefit for people with marginal systems that need as much extra CPU power as possible. However, such customers would not normally spend ~£80 on a NIC card, especially when they could use the same money much more effectively on a CPU or GPU upgrade.

To the OP: If I were you, I would have probably used the £80 spent on the NIC towards a Phenom II Upgrade to your system (currently using 2.5GHz Phenom 1 @3.1GHz). Such an upgrade would have provided much more performance per pound.

im waiting for the amd 6 core also upgrading my mobo and getting 8gb ddr3 ram, allways wanted to see if it worked i bought it out of curiosity also it only cost me £67

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 21:44

firewall

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settings

Sparx · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:40

It is a good idea, the concept and features are all nice - I just think the price is very un-justified in my eyes and a lot of others.. However, if you have the cash and have nothing else to buy or upgrade - then why not I guess!

Dist · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:48

The ability to put a firewall on it is nice, but only if directly connected to the modem. If you're using a router then there isn't a great deal of need for that sort of firewall as a decent router (which is still cheaper than the killer NIC) will do all of that itself.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:01

im currently using no router but i will be later when my partner buys her laptop

Sparx · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:02

chaosquall said:
game mode

Again, on a standard NIC, why are your pings so bad? They are over double mine.. :eek:

Code:

C:\Users\Josh>tracert 68.232.169.21

Tracing route to 68.232.169.21 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    16 ms    15 ms    16 ms  fe0-0-0.lns3.uan.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.62.165]
  3    28 ms    16 ms    15 ms  ge0-3-1.er2.uan.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.62.162]
  4    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  ge2-6-1.cr1.core.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.43.33]
  5    17 ms    20 ms    22 ms  ge0-0-1.tr1.core.rbm.uk.murphx.net [62.69.43.2]
  6    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  gi4-3.ccr01.lon08.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.146.89]
  7    94 ms    75 ms    21 ms  te2-2.mpd01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.145]
  8    15 ms    16 ms    15 ms  te3-1.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.2.26]
  9    24 ms    24 ms    23 ms  te0-0-0-0.mpd21.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.97]
 10    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  te1-8.ccr02.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.49.206]
 11   108 ms   108 ms   108 ms  te3-2.ccr02.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.69]
 12   122 ms   122 ms   123 ms  te9-8.ccr02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.137]
 13   126 ms   126 ms   127 ms  vl3498.ccr02.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.2]
 14   118 ms   119 ms   119 ms  Tenge4-4-10000M.ar3.CHI2.gblx.net [64.212.107.73]
 15   129 ms   128 ms   128 ms  te2-1-10G.ar5.CHI1.gblx.net [67.17.106.133]
 16   118 ms   119 ms   118 ms  xe-0-0-5.ar2.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.111.222]
 17   124 ms   120 ms   124 ms  as20473.xe-1-0-5-1615.ar2.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.111.178]
 18   118 ms   118 ms   117 ms  68.232.169.21

Trace complete.

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:05

even you should know that, it differs on location, isp and amount of traffic.

you cant compare me to you and go look my pings are better u phail its diffrent for everybody, the examples above i gave was 1 in game mode 1 in app mode.

Sparx · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:10

chaosquall said:
even you should know that, it differs on location, isp and amount of traffic.

you cant compare me to you and go look my pings are better u phail its diffrent for everybody, the examples above i gave was 1 in game mode 1 in app mode.

Yes, point is no matter were you are in the UK - unless your exchange or cabinet (if your on fibre which you are by the looks of it) is congested then you shouldn't have such pings.. Wheither it's your Killer NIC is in standard mode or gaming mode - they should not be like that.. Any UK ISP to a US server is far beyond me..

Really, I'm not here to brag, but in comparison against a standard NIC no matter what special mode this NIC is in, you wouldn't really think it would substantially lower it any further than it usually is, let alone double the standard..?

I mean having 1.2 (125ms) seconds of lag as opposed to 2.5 (250ms) seconds of lag is very bad and bad registry when playing games as your bullets could be registering a lot more accurately were you are aiming..

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:14

yes i am on fibre optic i downgraded i am on 20mbs connection now

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:20

my pingtest

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speedtest

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:22

those are good right? what are your results?

cmndr_andi · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:29

I mean having 0.125 (125ms) seconds of lag as opposed to 0.25 (250ms) seconds of lag

Fixed

chaosquall · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:35

cmndr_andi said:
Fixed

whats fixed?

cmndr_andi · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:51

Was just correcting lag figure. ie 1s = 1000ms not 100ms. Hopefully I got it the right way round, I just assumed he would be talking in 100s of milliseconds, as that has been the order of the lag discussed in this thread - not 1000s of ms.