MSI's X99S Gaming 9 ACK Packs Two Killer Networking Adapters

[N.Broekhuijsen]

MSI's new motherboard comes with not one, but two Killer networking adapters.

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[vagrantsoul]

keep hearing this in my head: http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.9659767.4832/sticker,375x360.u2.png

 

[dovah-chan]

Where is my SLI Krait Edition MSI?

 

[Nuckles_56]

I like the design of the board, shame that it is so far out of my price range

 

[spdragoo]

They do realize, don't they, that the only way you can even really "share" that bandwidth is on a LAN...since each adapter's max bandwidth is much higher than what 90% of potential users will even have access to. Sure, I could install a Wi-Fi adapter into my desktop & tell it to "share" the connection between the Gigabit Ethernet & the Wi-Fi...except the router they both use is connected through a modem that will top out at 20-25 Mbps, nowhere near the threshold for Wireless-N, let alone Gigabit Ethernet, limits.

Not to mention that, at over $400 USD for the board alone, you're spending as much on the board as other people do on an entire budget build. And you're not going to ever see the benefit of the added networking speed. So it's essentially for wasted "bragging rights".

 

[ahnilated]

Those killer nic's don't give you any benefit. There was tests on it and they showed no improvement in speeds so this is just a marketing gimmick and a bad one at that.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Now twice as useless...