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    If you are downloading other things, while also playing games...
    The Killer cards will prioritize your gaming, which basically means...

    Your game gets as much bandwidth as it can handle.
    And your downloads go as fast as possible, without slowing the game at all.

    So, if you're just playing warcraft and that is it.
    There won't be any noticeable improvement.
    I've got a killer card, that's my observation.
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    Killers do more than priority queuing, blocking non-game traffic (while you obviously should just stop running that stuff doing during your game play), and tweak networking settings.

    They fully offload the stack to the card. They also handle a few chatty directx update methods and requeue them. Getting the stack off the computer for 5/10 sessions is a huge advantage. The bigfoot forums can speak to wtf a stack is and the actual directx calls.

    Which is essential for avoiding seeing characters getting lots of exercise against walls, essentially since connectiving updates are async for players, lag will always be an issue and the game is very very low bandwidth (modem speed, minus zoning). People around you will be sending updates (i moved xyz, i moved xyz, i moved xyz) and you will get them late. The card can pull the messages and requeue them as a (i moved {xyz,xyz,xyz}). This is huge for removing run against a wall exercise sessions.

    In this, blizzard's data is getting processed by you faster, but as the above posted not to you faster.

    I get way more performance out of the killer than my ssd, having a 64mb buffer 10k drive works just fine for a ./Data volume for zoning speeds 10boxing.

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