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Bigfoot Killer NIC 10/100/1000 PCI 400 MHz NPU RJ-45 USB 2.0 Retail | List Price: $339.53
Discount Price: $225.00
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Brand: BigFoot Networks
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The best gaming NIC you can buy [Posted on 2006-11-22]
Anyone who doesn't like this card, doesn't understand what it does.
This is not a normal NIC. The processor on the card actually bypasses the windows network stack.
There is no other network card capable of doing this.
The increase to frame rate and ping that the killer nic website brags about are actually not its biggest selling point for me. Those are just bonuses.
The best thing about this card is its ability to smooth out network performance. This isnt measurable by numbers, but in how it actually feels in real world use.
I honestly can not play online games without this card anymore.
And the price? Your buying a linux cpu and extra ram. Its more than justified.
If any of you were around years ago when seperate graphics cards were first released, than you will remember the flaming people who said "my standard mobo vid card is good enough". now those seperate graphics cards are virtually required for gaming.
Well what if those seperate graphics cards were no better than the mobo card? there wouldnt have been a point. Thats what other network cards are like. They just toss packets through the standard process.
This is the first and only NIC that outsources the network process the way a graphics card outsources the graphics process. Offloading all the work from the cpu.
Bottom line is this: Does your computer suck? than yea, dont waste your time buying a $250 NIC.
Do you actually care about your computer? Do you have a video card worth at least $200? do you play online games?
This is the next step up.
Just to compare; I bought a $400 graphics card right before I bought my killer. Swapping them out and comparing the performance increases, I get more net gain with the killer than I do with the graphics card alone.
Obviously putting in both (for me) is the way to go.
This is a whole new world for gaming. There is nothing else out there that
can improve your online gaming in quite the same way; and any other upgrades your considering are still going to benifit from having the killer as well.
Heck, for some of you with really high end gaming rigs that are already worth thousands, i cant imagine you wouldnt want to also improve your network connection performance. and for those of you with mid range systems, this card at this price is going to give as good or better performance increase than anything else you could upgrade to in this price range.
I could go on ... and on... but honestly... i never expected it to be this good. and i cant imagine playing without it anymore.
Not only that... but theres programs coming out that will be able to run on the killers processor without tying up cpu performance, try that with any other network card
Well worth the money for me. [Posted on 2006-11-27]
This card really delivers. I have never seen World of Warcraft, CounterStrike, and Battlefield 2 play so fast before. It is much less laggy than it used to be without the Killer.
This card was worth the money for sure.
The new age in Online Gaming [Posted on 2007-05-17]
Being in Hawaii, I needed to bridge the gap across the pond to the states. Even with a rig that would make 99.9% of people in the PC builder community drool, latency and lag can still be a killer. So instead, I turned my connection into a killer :) I am very impressed with this card and reccomend it to anyone in the gaming community.
BEWARE item is GARBAGE! [Posted on 2008-01-22]
I have a Dell XPS Genereation 4. I put this item in my computer and had it working for about 10 minutes. I performed speed tests and fram rate tests on Call of Duty 4 with NO measureable improvements then on 2nd reboot had MAJOR memmory errors and Blue screen of death. I called Bigfoot tech support and they confirmed the item has "bugs" and "software coflicts". I had to reformat my hard drive to fix problem and now my computer works perfectly now. Don't waste your time or money on this fancy packaged gimmick. Buy it and you will be sorry you did. Posted 1/21/08.
This Item destroy's all NICS on your PC [Posted on 2008-06-16]
After multiple attempts at getting this card to work (re-installations, cleaning out the registry) I decided to let it be and use my onboard NIC. This is where the fun began and everything I did would not work saying the NIC had limited connectivity and could not renew an IP address. Mind you, the drivers I was using were from June 4th, 2008 and I had to reinstall windows to get connectivity back.
Definitely do not purchase this because it messes up your pc NIC, is way overpriced, has non-existent customer phone support and the kicker is they actively censor any technical problems/issues you post on forums or anywhere else! Very shady and I would highly recommend to avoid and save yourself the nightmare of installing this junk.
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