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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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#5116294 Posted on: 07/07/2015 12:30 PM
LOL same as me exactly.
I had to install the stand Alone driver for the network card to work properly!
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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).