MSI Bringing "Killer" NIC Tech to MoBos?

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[citation][nom]mavroxur[/nom]After reading the piles of comments from people, it's very obvious that people don't understand the benefits of offloading the TCP stack to a hardware engine, instead of letting the OS handle the stack. The benefits are proven, and have been several times. Do your research before spouting off uneducated comments.[/citation]

Im guessing you have a dual core cpu. Those of us with Quad cores (and ht) dont have a problem offloading the tcp stack to the OS because we can spare an ENTIRE CPU CORE to do it. I spend my money on 3 or 4 places in my system builds. 1) the cpu 2)the gpu 3) the psu 4) some times the motherboard depending on what is out there at the time... spending half or more for what I paid for my cpu on a nic to lower latency in games by a whopping 2-3ms is retarded. Offloading tasks to the nic is great for a server because its got thousands of connections that it's handling at once... my gaming rig... not so much.
 
QoS on your router will perform the same way.

Here is the biggest factor: your internet is only as fast as your ISP allows, whether that be a throttled connection or a crappy pipe. Your $150 NIC isn't going to make a difference. If you want packet priority (QoS), read the manual for your router...it already does it.

Killer NIC...digital 'Snake Oil'.
 
@shin0bi272 - You're spot on. To add to your argument I ask anyone who would try to rationalize this card to consider this one point of logic; The extended capabilities of your nic are something you may utilize a portion of the time and perhaps not that greatly. As for allocating that money toward your CPU well there's something you can utilize far more often in a variety of ways. I will say from experience in just file transfers a Realtek or Via network chip is rarely ever a match against a good budget Intel PCIe card.
 
[citation][nom]apache_lives[/nom]Is that worth hundreds of dollars? Have you ever used an Intel branded network controller?Lucid Hyrda is software bound - dead end, its why stupid MSI is the only company who looked at it, msi is all show and no guns - pure rubbish.[/citation]

So that's why ASUS has a hydra enabled motherbaord on the market and has had it on the market for almost a month? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131667

So when you gonna install that glass abdomen on yourself because it's certainly going to be less painful than pulling that overinflated head of yours out of your ass.

The Bigfoot cards of this generation are certainly better than the old ones, and TBH are a hard sell when most of the ones on your system are certainly up to the task of giving you almost as good as latencey as possible on their own. However, if you have a bad connection a Bigfoot card DOES help. It does lower ping about 10% from what I have personally seen.

Now you tell me this, does having an extra 10 fps and a 10ms lower ping from this card on a 6 core system make it worth owning? Sure as hell does when you already have a $200 card sitting pretty on the top slot and you don't feel like dropping another $200+ for a second card, AND a stronger PSU.

If MSI offers this on-board or even as an add in card bundled with a board I might have to look seriously into MSI's offerings.
 
Yeah... but a Router costs money and ads to the confusion of cabling etc... and they are very expensive. So yeah, the KILLER NIC has a place for those who like to spend $100~200 for a big NIC card...

Reminds people of the old days when typical 486 computers HAD at least 4~6 cards installed!!

1 - Video card
2 - Audio card
3 - IDE Controller card (some with PAR / SER ports to save a slot)
4 - NIC Card (Used to buy these all the time)
5 - SCSI card (Scanner and first CD-Burners)
6 - Video capture card

Nowadays... most of us have 1-2 cards (Video... maybe an audio card)
 
[citation][nom]BulkZerker[/nom]So that's why ASUS has a hydra enabled motherbaord on the market and has had it on the market for almost a month? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131667So when you gonna install that glass abdomen on yourself because it's certainly going to be less painful than pulling that overinflated head of yours out of your ass. The Bigfoot cards of this generation are certainly better than the old ones, and TBH are a hard sell when most of the ones on your system are certainly up to the task of giving you almost as good as latencey as possible on their own. However, if you have a bad connection a Bigfoot card DOES help. It does lower ping about 10% from what I have personally seen.Now you tell me this, does having an extra 10 fps and a 10ms lower ping from this card on a 6 core system make it worth owning? Sure as hell does when you already have a $200 card sitting pretty on the top slot and you don't feel like dropping another $200+ for a second card, AND a stronger PSU. If MSI offers this on-board or even as an add in card bundled with a board I might have to look seriously into MSI's offerings.[/citation]

LOL @ Lucid's solution - its balls, along with MSI and Killer, you really are stupid aren't you? You have obviously never have had to deal with a company like MSI on the large scale, see how poor there reliability is as a company - go do some research before saying things about something you have no idea about.
 
after trying to get a video card RMA number under warranty for 3 months i wont touch MSI, and having 3 motherboards die from them...
 
[citation][nom]rubix_1011[/nom]QoS on your router will perform the same way. Here is the biggest factor: your internet is only as fast as your ISP allows, whether that be a throttled connection or a crappy pipe. Your $150 NIC isn't going to make a difference. If you want packet priority (QoS), read the manual for your router...it already does it.Killer NIC...digital 'Snake Oil'.[/citation]

[citation][nom]Vorador2[/nom]I would prefer to invest those 200$ on a better router.[/citation]


Once again, do your homework before spouting off. Using QoS doesn't offload the TCP stack from your system CPU. That's like saying using a pine air freshener instead of a cherry air freshener will improve your car's gas mileage. I will give you this, though. Hardware offload is overkill for the average user (gamer) but in scenarios where a LOT of traffic is taking place (a NAS, file server, multiple streams, etc) the benefits can be worth it, but Joe Blow playing WoW with a $200 NIC is pointless.
 
[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]I think all mobo's should have a built in co-processor that handles nothing but audio and networking tasks.[/citation]
They already do. Doh!
 
The few MSI products i've used are enough for me to never use them again. (be carefull flashing the bios on any of these boards, mine got bricked, even after they sent me the 'correct' bios chip.)
 
[citation][nom]ricdiculus[/nom]The few MSI products i've used are enough for me to never use them again. (be carefull flashing the bios on any of these boards, mine got bricked, even after they sent me the 'correct' bios chip.)[/citation]

Ever heard of an overheating Geforce4 Ti4200? or a CD burner that required a restart just to burn a second cd (if your lucky)? Its MSI lmao.

Should also have a look at your motherboard revision - 3 revisions are max average on any other brand, msi? iv seen like REVISION 7.3 - WTF CANT THEY GET IT RIGHT AFTER LIKE 7 GO'S?

At my work we all believe MSI stands for "MIGHT START INTERMITTENTLY"
 
hey to come to think about it MSI and Killer might bring you alot of "BANG" for your buck - the bang comes from either an electrical fault or afterward when you hit the machine and think to your self why did i buy MSI?
 
MSI just broke a few world records with the big bang x-power in vegas tonight. may want to check it out before saying they dont deliver results.. just saying
 
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