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Guru3D.com » News » Realtek to use Dragon 8118AS NICs against Killer

Realtek to use Dragon 8118AS NICs against Killer

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/07/2015 05:20 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)
Realtek to use Dragon 8118AS  NICs against Killer

Motherboard manufacturer ECS is releasing Series 170 motherboards equipped with Realtek-Dragon network jacks. Realtek will release this product aimed against the KillerNIC from Aetheros.

Realtek Dragon is the new RTL8118AS, a PCIe gigabit Ethernet PHY. The first Dragon model will be labeled 8118AS and can be spotted on the ECS 170 L33T models. Further details are missing though. A little weird is the Dragon logo though. MSI’s logo is a dragon as well, and thus the obvious linkup should be with MSI, but instead ECS is the first motherboard manufacturer to jump on board. Therein offers a potential element of confusion – the main Dragon brand (MSI) is not using the Dragon NIC, and why?



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Glasofruix
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#5116282 Posted on: 07/07/2015 12:02 PM
To be honest the killer nic is not that great, the software is pure garbage and causes more problems that it's supposed to solve (couldn't play GTA online until i got rid of it and installed the bare driver).

akbaar
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#5116294 Posted on: 07/07/2015 12:30 PM
To be honest the killer nic is not that great, the software is pure garbage and causes more problems that it's supposed to solve (couldn't play GTA online until i got rid of it and installed the bare driver).


LOL same as me exactly.

I had to install the stand Alone driver for the network card to work properly!

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#5116295 Posted on: 07/07/2015 12:31 PM
There's more than one review on the net clearly stating that the killer chip does not help networking performance by any significant amount. That's all just marketing I guess.

tsunami231
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#5116499 Posted on: 07/07/2015 05:11 PM
I still have yet to try one of those "killernic" cards, i probably never will either short of the MOBO comes with but with recently realizing how bad realtek drivers are. *Cough, 5 year long HW acceleration system locks with it on issue do to 5 years of broke audio drivers Cough*.

My next Mobo will be intel nic and creative audio onboards, Never mind the fact Realtek driver updates dont even explain what they fixed/changed and never have as far as i remember.

Atlest sony update for the console give "stability update" and there bad with notes too best i seen from realtek is "added" support for XXXXX.

Mineria
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#5116566 Posted on: 07/07/2015 06:55 PM
Those gaming NIC's really don't do anything that a regular NIC isn't able to.
And what the software does is also available both as freeware as paid software.
I rather use onboard Intel NIC's than one of these cards, I have a Killer Xeno Pro which was a replacement for the onboard NIC on an NVidia chipset board, but with the boards after that it became rather useless, plus that a descent Intel NIC will do the same job.

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