What do you think of KillerNIC ?

[Sarduci]

I expected more out of anandtech, the whole idea is flawed and they even state it. Once the packet leave you last locally controlled network point, it's completely at the mercy of your provider, their provider, their backbone uplink, router conditions and if anywhere in the could they are doing traffic shaping or have a cruddy ATM (no, not the cash machine) link and many, many other conditions. If the NIC is making any difference, it's because you're either sending too much network traffic and the card driver is set to offload TCP/IP (which makes the NIC do it) or you have some PCI bottleneck that's choking out the card.

Fix what you can on your end (video card, ram, disk drives, cpu, cooling system - yes, cooler running systems perform better) and you'll be much happier.

Yeah, it is mega bling-bling, more if it ran Linux and could make you toast or better yet install it in your toaster so it makes your toast even faster and then your toaster would be running Linux.... :thumbup: *drool*

You can also get a 5 to 10ms better response time by drinking lots of red bull...... think Tweak from south park.......

File this one under snakeoil and the cure for baldness..... still waiting on that last one though.. ;(

[butta]

From the results and reviews I've seen on this card, there's ZERO reason to buy it from a practical standpoint. I think of it like trying to overclock a 56k modem -- its just the wrong piece of hardware to completely pimp out.

[Sarduci]

From the results and reviews I've seen on this card, there's ZERO reason to buy it from a practical standpoint. I think of it like trying to overclock a 56k modem -- its just the wrong piece of hardware to completely pimp out.

Wrong.

The KillerNIC really does what it claims. Reduces CPU overhead to incease network performance. Its not bullshit. Its just INSANELY overpriced.

A 100mb card can only run at 100mb, and most people with dsl/cable top out practically at 3mb. Any increase in performance shows a definite bottleneck somewhere else in the system that needs to be addressed or it's simply a band-aid for a larger overall issue that may show up again in a different way. If it was a payload encryption/decryption engine, then I'd have to say it'd have some merit as a normal CPU is general purpose compared to a FPGA designed for a specific task which is found on that kind of card and it would put undue stress on anything but a high end system. A properly sized system should get zero gain from this device. An undersized system may show a net gain but only as an indicator to a different issue that should be looked at - or as my old coworker would say: Buy a new one!