jonob66 Posted April 12, 2008 Posted April 12, 2008 Has anyone come across this NIC card? It claims to offload Network related processes from the CPU / OS on the the cards own CPU and thus reduce lag and latency to produce better FPS. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
S77th-konkussion Posted April 12, 2008 Posted April 12, 2008 In a word... not exactly. There are some improvements with some games in some hardware configurations. Nothing that is consistent, repeatable, and certainly NOTHING to even RESEMBLE the claims made in the ads. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2865&p=11 1 [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=43337&d=1287169113[/sIGPIC]
jonob66 Posted April 12, 2008 Author Posted April 12, 2008 In a word... not exactly. There are some improvements with some games in some hardware configurations. Nothing that is consistent, repeatable, and certainly NOTHING to even RESEMBLE the claims made in the ads. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2865&p=11 Cheers mate I thought as much, neat idea if it worked. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
5thduke Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 ive got one and agree with konkussion the improvement isnt worth the hi price tag. evga e760 x58 3way mb nvidia gtx 480sc sli intell 980x 1860 dominaters triple channel corsair 800d case 2xintell m160g gen 2 ssd in raid 0 corsair hx1000 psu win 7 64 ult all fully water cooled by ek dell u2711 monitor 2560x1440 x58pro g13 plus das keybrd
ED Team Groove Posted April 15, 2008 ED Team Posted April 15, 2008 Pure hype. Our Forum Rules: http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en
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