I was browsing the internet when an ad for this network card popped up. I was wondering if you guys could do a review of it. I don't know if any of their crazy marketing-speak actually amounts to anything. The price is a bit steep for me to just go out an preorder one though.
There was a thread about this a little while back The consensus was - You're not going to see any stunning improvements because the rest of the network wont support all the stuff on that card.
Sounds like they're saying that games would communicate directly with the card. ie, you would need to patch every game you run to get them to use this card. Packet prioritisation already happens on a lot of ISPs, I know Plusnet do it. Game and VOIP packets get priority IIRC. And any decent NIC will already offload network load from the CPU. Will be interested to see how it goes when/if its released.
Yeah, the nic has been adressed... The overall concensus was that it wasn't worth it, even if it prooved to do all the things it said... But not to start a new thread, some people who posted here need a visit from the "sig powning Bindi monster "
Wireless has this, its called WMM. Although lets be honest, you wouldn't use wireless for serious gaming now, would you?
I think all this "gamer" marketing crap is nothing more than refined bull****. Say you do get this card - wouldn't the internet be a bottleneck? Say you do have a gigabit internet connection - wouldn't your PCI bus be a bottleneck? Isn't current ethernet connections good enough for games? I seriously doubt that much data gets transfered in gaming. It's not like having a $300 network card is going to make you get any more kills. If you suck, you suck. If you're good at gaming, then you could get by with adequate hardware.
Yer i agree gamers are suckers for something that "gaming" on the packet and especialy something that says "Fatal1ty"
I'm a gamer, so go easy! I almost went pro in my slightly younger years, and at the tournaments that you go to, just using a decent network card over a LAN connection is all you need. If everyone is linked together like that, the bandwidth you get over the LAN is more than enough to ensure you don't suffer from lag. At the moment, I've just started playing counter strike source, and you need around 50-60kbps to play it properly without any lag.
aparently, theres more to this card than just another NIC. They've got a preview on [H]ardOCP. there's a small linix install on it, and a usb port for a mem card (or whatever) that allows for AV / Firewall etc.. to be installed to the card so you can add an extra layer of protection to your system. I know it's being targeted at gamers, but I think there are other markets it would be better suited to be targeted at. I do think $200+ is still a bit much though....
That was a sort of a strange article. It sounded like more of a press release and a little of "Well, they told us that...". Not that I would ever consider one of these, but I'm curious to see the benchmarks now when someone gets their hands on actual hardware they can play with.
