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- damnshoes, on 06/18/2009, -0/+102You want lag free gaming? Get a better Internet Service Provider.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -5/+100You are retarded if you buy this.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -2/+67The Killer NIC Card: Proof that there are people retarded enough to buy ANYTHING.
- dvsbastard, on 06/19/2009, -1/+64I just replaced my ethernet cabling with Monster Cables....
- nigelmansell, on 06/19/2009, -0/+50Slap a Fata1ty logo to jack up $20
- chill613, on 06/19/2009, -0/+42Buy it so you can list it in your Tech forum sig.
- BoaZ2020, on 06/18/2009, -1/+39~ +1% gaming FPS
for
~ -1,000% bulk throughput
No thanks. - MasterGrief, on 06/19/2009, -0/+23I thought that was Monster Cables?
- Dragular, on 06/19/2009, -1/+24The moment that page loaded, I felt as though I had been kicked in the stomach.
- Ghostalker, on 06/19/2009, -2/+25I thought this was supposed to reduce my ping?
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -1/+23I used to work with a guy named Rick DeCicco selling computer parts. Great guy, Rick, but completely without a sense of business ethics.
You know how I know that? Because he once sold one of these ***** to a guy. - zbeast, on 06/19/2009, -1/+23The thing is the physx cards did something.. they were a vector co-processor.
Nvidia bought the company and included the tech on there 3d cards. - anexanhume, on 06/19/2009, -0/+16Dude, you have to pay royalties on this comment now.
- sjbdallas, on 06/19/2009, -0/+16Blue ones cool, red ones heat.
- nullx42, on 06/19/2009, -0/+16Green + Blue LEDs do the same thing plus they cool down your system.
- krisrm, on 06/19/2009, -2/+18What a waste of a PCI-E slot... come on.
- m3arvk, on 06/19/2009, -1/+16The bulk network transfer with this card averaged under 10 MB/s whereas the integrated (cheap) NIC averaged 79 MB/s. I'm not exactly sure how sell something that not only fails to improve what it claims to, but makes it an order of magnitude worse.
For the extra $129 just get a faster CPU and/or graphics card if you want extra FPS. - GalacticXenu, on 06/19/2009, -0/+15I put a fin on my computer case
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+14^^^^^morons^^^^^
- MicrosoftAccess, on 06/19/2009, -0/+14Just throw the word "gaming" before the title and people flock to it. By the way, anyone want to buy these Gaming Monster Cables?
- Suilenroc, on 06/19/2009, -0/+13"Worth the coin for lag free gaming?"
Short answer: No.
Long Answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
/dr.cox - coredump0x01, on 06/19/2009, -0/+8At least physics processing is something that can be fairly CPU intensive. Processing network packets isn't.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -1/+9Working with WAN accelerators for a living i can promise you this will not help you. However, if they can get EVERYONE to buy one and implement TCP offloading along with a good deal of compression and maybe even a bit of caching then they might have something good going on. I think they are working tword trying to put some of the large commercial WAN accelerators into a NIC witch is a wonderful idea! But its going to take some time before it gets to the point where its worth buying for home use because they just don't have the commercial grade features in it yet.
Here is a bit more of what i am talking about if your interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAN_optimization - burden555, on 06/19/2009, -1/+8EVGA 7900 gt || e6600 core 2 duo || 2 gb 800 mhz ram || cheap mobo || WinXP
2+ year old machine and can play all the new stuff. I don't understand why people need some of these parts. Honestly Crysis is such a bad game. The AI is pathetic, the story line is meh, and you spend all this money to brag how you can play Crysis on max.
And now this.... seriously... you don't need new hardware, you need optimized software for those 8 core prosesors you brag about, and those 64bit processors no one takse full advantage off.... - krisrm, on 06/19/2009, -0/+7Listen. I hate you.
- vuke69, on 06/19/2009, -0/+7I put stickers on mine. They were guaranteed to add 5 fps each.
- CausalityMeme, on 06/19/2009, -0/+6A 'Kick Ass' network card ...
- Chakat, on 06/19/2009, -1/+7True, it still transfers a digital signal. CAT6 cables, which are suitable for gigabit, and possibly 10 gigabit, transfers, run about $5. Something is fishy in the state of denmark.
- nullx42, on 06/19/2009, -1/+7>Business ethics
HAHAHAHAHA SURLY U JEST, SIR!! - deviantsteve, on 06/19/2009, -0/+6Spam much?
- jawni, on 06/19/2009, -0/+6A sound investment good lad. Might I suggest some 'Beats by Dre' headphones as well? or custom installation from the Geek Squad?
- skit4king, on 06/19/2009, -2/+7No Hothardware.com, no it's not. Even if I have money to burn, I would rather burn it.
- zbeast, on 06/19/2009, -1/+6Game writers go out of there way to deal with packet delay right in the game.
The only place a card like this would be useful is for bulk file xfers.
You know when your downloading lot's of files via bittorrent
Where your system processes end's up overwhelmed trying to service all the interrupts from
the network interface.
If your just gaming I would spend my $250 elsewhere.
more ram, faster cpu, better graphics card.
- darkciti2, on 06/19/2009, -3/+8Dugg for being a tech article.
- waspbr, on 06/19/2009, -2/+7So 250 bucks for a glorified network card?
- s14sh3r, on 06/19/2009, -0/+5Yeah, but I already have the fastest graphics card available and I'm running a 4+ghz cpu. Why not add a few more fps? Hell, it's only money :)
- 2of8, on 06/19/2009, -0/+5Cables, too, are - ideally - unseen, hidden behind your table and equipment.
- MicrosoftAccess, on 06/19/2009, -0/+5Lol this went from 0 to -32 with one bury.
- Ricochetbiscuit, on 06/19/2009, -0/+5I think that was the general conclusion in the article actually:
http://hothardware.com/Articles/EVGA-Bigfoot-Netwo ...
FTA - "We're sure there is a small minority of gamers that won't mind making the additional investment in a specialized NIC specifically designed for gaming, if it gives them even the slightest edge in their favorite game. Those types of users will probably be pleased by the Killer Xeno Pro, but that group of consumers is a rather small niche'. If you're among that group, great, the Xeno Pro is a cool product. If you're not, don't sweat it; your integrated NIC will serve you just fine." - sexybobo, on 06/19/2009, -1/+5It is still a digital signal nonetheless.
Denon Link is a proprietary, high-quality digital audio transmission technology - mitrovarr, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4Good luck in most areas. Usually there's only 2-3 big ISPS and they all connect to the same place anyway and have roughly the same ping.
Not that this will help, either. Usually your options are move to a different city or fail. - brundlefly76, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4I was one of the guinea pigs who bought the original one.
I don't care what it did or did not do, I absolutely could not tell the difference between it and the integrated NIC.
It is insulting that this company continues to produce and market this product. - BloKKem, on 06/19/2009, -4/+8I was hoping to never see the Xeno Pro on a digg submission because of what is going to ensue. Go to a real source for info on the Xeno Pro.
Main EVGA forum for Xeno Pro discussion. http://www.evga.com/forums/tt.asp?forumid=85
Topic with real benchmark data. http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100734097
There is so much misconception with what the Xeno Pro is supposed to do. It would be better for people to just read up instead of leaving uninformed comments about it because the odds are, what you think it does is not what its even designed for. With that being said, I dont have one, nor would I get one. However, whats about to happen in the comments for this submission is the same thing we went through over on the EVGA board when it was released. - rubixcubez, on 06/19/2009, -1/+5just turn off QoS packet scheduling. its basically like turning your TCP connection into a UDP one. Increase in speed.
- bivity, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4Besides having a local QoS policy to police or map gaming packets/ports on your soho router and subscribing to a sufficent bandwidth contract from your ISP, there is never a huge gain from such investments for internet gaming. Like mitrovarr says, most ISP piggback off each other out to one or two big head ends. You run into carrier issues when the ISP has bad design, engineers or hardware which is as simple as switching provider. Your location matters as well, if you live in a metropolation that offer FioS or share bandwidth with your neighbors all off one fiber-coax hybrid line. Buying expensive network gear can be a bad investment if you do not know what you are doing. Buy a decent router one with QoS to priotize your game experience and make sure you have no on-going issues with your provider. Otherwise, more than likely you have a serious software problem above layer 4 at this point. Just a bit of advice from a network engineer.
- redstar1949, on 06/19/2009, -1/+5Xeno Pro.. did Elron Hubbard invent this NIC?
- highsea, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4those are server nics. Intel Pro's with TOE start at $70 for desktop cards..
Still insightful though, I admit I didn't read the article. - draculthemad, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4No, they aren't repetitive. They would contain very small messages containing only state data that would change very often.
The protocols must be optimized for latency because its important that all the clients be in very close synch. Otherwise you have to do state-resets from the server, which have a lot of overhead and cause very perceptible "rubber banding" type events.
Most games that depend on low latency like fps will use small UDP packets. They will interpolate between packets and discard anything thats too old. Because of that and the way UDP can arrive out of order, caching is out. - ByteGuerilla, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4From the Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel school of business and marketing.
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