Killer NIC – First look

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Comment by marcgear at 5:09pm 12th November 2007

So what is the difference between this card and the "KillerNIC K1 Network Interface Card" that sells for £129.99? Is it to do with the Bit Torrent features? If the gaming features and performance are the same, I might invest in one. Help needed please CPC!

Comment by grimerking at 9:12am 28th September 2007

So what is the difference between this card and the "KillerNIC K1 Network Interface Card" that sells for £129.99? Is it to do with the Bit Torrent features? If the gaming features and performance are the same, I might invest in one. Help needed please CPC!

Comment by grimerking at 9:12am 28th September 2007

Just go with a better internet provider ?? Although the hassle vs price difference is what people will choose in the end Personally it looks like another expensive gimmick like physix.

Comment by Lightning_Pete at 4:24pm 7th September 2007

Very similar idea of using LInux on-board. We have been using them as hardware firewall in servers for a couple of years. This seems like a cheaper alternative to someone needing a hardware firewall.

Comment by gravy_uk at 1:32pm 7th September 2007

I wounder if they could integrate this on motherboard.

Comment by megapig at 12:28pm 7th September 2007

"If it was pcie , could run bittorrent with the pc turned off, and you could configure bittorrent remotely with the pc turned off then I'd buy one. (hosting an ftp/webserver via a usb stick with the pc off would be useful as well)" for what you want just get a cheap old laptop off ebay and install a small linux build...even dsl would do what you need...

Comment by reashlin at 9:02pm 6th September 2007

I have been using this card for the last couple of weeks. I have had problems running it on XP Pro 32bit but it works like a dream on Vista 32bit. Unfortunately gaming on Vista isn\'t as good as on XP. For the brief periods of time that it did work on XP (15-25mins before loss of connection) CS:S played like it should. I hit what I aimed at and my FPS did increase a reasonable amount.

Comment by Conroy at 4:33pm 6th September 2007

I have been using this card for the last couple of weeks. I have had problems running it on XP Pro 32bit but it works like a dream on Vista 32bit. Unfortunately gaming on Vista isn\'t as good as on XP. For the brief periods of time that it did work on XP (15-25mins before loss of connection) CS:S played like it should. I hit what I aimed at and my FPS did increase a reasonable amount.

Comment by Conroy at 4:33pm 6th September 2007

If it was pcie , could run bittorrent with the pc turned off, and you could configure bittorrent remotely with the pc turned off then I'd buy one. (hosting an ftp/webserver via a usb stick with the pc off would be useful as well)

Comment by mcmadhatter at 3:07pm 6th September 2007

It could possibly tempt me at £140 if the price comes down in time, guess its something that would be a one time buy too unlike a gfix card

Comment by Paul866 at 1:17am 6th September 2007

All the reviews out there seem very good and tbh i would consider one of these for the torrent prioritisation... problem is i only got 1 pci slot and that has an xfi in it... we need 1x pci-e devices soon people...we need to use those sockets.

Comment by reashlin at 9:58pm 5th September 2007

I'd be instantly sold if it could do the torrents to USB or hard drive while the main computer was off/suspended. Is there still a noticable difference if you use it with very fast machines/quad core etc. Also, no one plays LOTR tell us how it performs with WoW ;)

Comment by Fizzzl at 4:29pm 5th September 2007

If they could make a wireless NIC with the same specs I'm sure a lot more folks would consider it...me for example!

Comment by F_A_F at 4:25pm 5th September 2007

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