#5116282

Glasofruix

2015-07-07 12:02

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).

#5116294

akbaar

2015-07-07 12:30

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!

#5116295

fantaskarsef

2015-07-07 12:31

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.

#5116499

tsunami231

2015-07-07 17:11

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.

#5116566

Mineria

2015-07-07 18:55

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.

#5116584

Reddoguk

2015-07-07 19:22

I don't understand why they even bother with KILLER NIC lol. It's totally gimmick BS. There's no NIC on the planet that can increase speeds over what already exists. It's like that kid on YT that says he can increase your download/upload speeds by wrapping a second Ethernet cable around the first one.

#5116593

Hootmon

2015-07-07 19:33

I bought CFos Speed for my gaming machine. It does a good job of reducing latency in online gaming by using packet priority. http://www.cfos.de/en/cfosspeed/cfosspeed.htm You can occasionally get it on sale or find a coupon. I think I paid $10 for it. I think some Mobo makers (MSI?) include a stripped-down version of it. [EDIT] Doh! Says right on that web site "cFosSpeed is the official Internet Accelerator for ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock and MSI gaming products".

#5116619

Glasofruix

2015-07-07 19:54

That looks like the thing that was bundled with my msi mobo which has the aforementionned killer nic.

#5116621

lexer98

2015-07-07 19:56

I prefer Intel NIC, just works even with generic drivers

#5116624

EspHack

2015-07-07 20:01

when I see news about nics I expect a 10gb port at least, we've been stuck with 1gb for ages now

#5116665

Hootmon

2015-07-07 20:58

That looks like the thing that was bundled with my msi mobo which has the aforementionned killer nic.

I dont think those programs are related to Killer NIC specifically, but Im not certain.