Bigfoot Networks Unleashes Killer 2100, World's Fastest Gaming NIC

newtekie1 · May 11, 2010

$immond$ said:
Considering the cost of ram these days 4Gb of DDR2/DDR3 can be bought very cheap.

Correct, more evidence to our point.

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · May 11, 2010

Looks like an x-fi titanim fatality ed. Must have the same crappy driver support as well..

JoJoe · May 11, 2010

The original M1/K1 cards were actually pretty decent cards. With the USB port and and some of the features. Unfortunately, it had some some glaring compatability issues with certain game and applications. Bigfoot Networks pretty much completely dropped support for the original cards once they released the Xeno card.

They seemed like a really great company with the original cards. Great support all around but, now I just can't stand behind them and recommend any of their products oh well. Makes me glad I got my M1 for super cheap on eBay...

EarlZ · May 12, 2010

This card is very effective and it actually works! The downside is that after it leaves the card, you are subjected to how your ISP performs... :nutkick:

kaneda · May 12, 2010

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/networking/2010/05/01/killer-xeno-pro-gaming-network-card-review/1

hrm XD

boulard83 · May 12, 2010

This thing has proven "not to work". Any up to date system is able to handle the internet load on its own without any issue.

Syborfical · May 12, 2010

LOL Killer nic's are should be called placebo Nic's

Mussels · May 12, 2010

[I.R.A]_FBi said:
No x64 bit support? Fail!

i think its only skipping XP x64

laszlo · May 12, 2010

who believe is good will buy it;i also believe is useless but the fact that exist and will be bought show us the power of marketing of all bullshit

Necrofire · May 12, 2010

Sorry for the confusion people, newtekie was right on the spot with what I meant.

What I should have said is that Bigfoot Network's target audience are gamers, who likely have a gaming machine, which would entail having a 64-bit OS (because they want to utilize that 6GB of ram or whatever, since I wouldn't call a machine with <4GB of ram much of a gaming machine, ram is cheap enough these days I would definitely buy more ram over this).

Exactly how hard is it to compile a driver with 64-bit support again?

Mussels · May 12, 2010

Necrofire said:
Sorry for the confusion people, newtekie was right on the spot with what I meant.

What I should have said is that Bigfoot Network's target audience are gamers, who likely have a gaming machine, which would entail having a 64-bit OS (because they want to utilize that 6GB of ram or whatever, since I wouldn't call a machine with <4GB of ram much of a gaming machine, ram is cheap enough these days I would definitely buy more ram over this).

Exactly how hard is it to compile a driver with 64-bit support again?

it has 64 bit drivers. just not for XP64, which is a dead OS.

Necrofire · May 12, 2010

Oh ok, well, had there not been x64 support, my point makes sense right?

Even so, I would still look at buying and/or modding my router before looking at this card.

Although, right now even, I improve my latency by simply choosing closer servers

Papahyooie · May 13, 2010

a $100+ NIC and it doesnt even have mulitple ports? I'd at least expect it to be able to be used as a bridge.

People spend 100+ dollars more on video cards that only give a 1-5% increase in framerates on games versus thier 100 dollar less little brothers, so buying something like this really isn't all that crazy. Nobody says "its not worth it" when someone buys a brand new video card that cost 600+ and is only less than 10% faster than a 200 dollar graphics card.

devguy · May 13, 2010

Papahyooie said:
Nobody says "its not worth it" when someone buys a brand new video card that cost 600+ and is only less than 10% faster than a 200 dollar graphics card.

lol, I do. :cool:

Papahyooie · May 13, 2010

devguy said:
lol, I do.

Well... so do I, but that wasn't the point.

... you still gawk at the uber systems, I'm sure, just like me lol.

TheLaughingMan · May 13, 2010

We asked for it before....so I guess I will be bring it back up. Can we get a review of this item?

I mean it was a big debate about this item before if it even worked the way it said, or was it just a better NIC with a gimmick to sell. I have personal experience with the item and it does work as it states, but how well? And is the price justified (Hell No)?

Review Please???

Easy Rhino · May 14, 2010

TheLaughingMan said:
We asked for it before....so I guess I will be bring it back up. Can we get a review of this item?

I mean it was a big debate about this item before if it even worked the way it said, or was it just a better NIC with a gimmick to sell. I have personal experience with the item and it does work as it states, but how well? And is the price justified (Hell No)?

Review Please???

TPU did a review of the prior model here...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Bigfoot_Networks/KillerNIC_M1

so it has good insight into what some of the improvements will be to the new one.

LAN_deRf_HA · May 14, 2010

I think regardless of any proven usefulness the price will always be an issue. $50 would be a nice price for this considering your average intel card runs up to $30. I got mine cheap and at the least I can offload the firewall and torrents to it to it. Based on the specs I'm betting they could easily afford to sell it that cheap, unless they're still paying off start-up loans.

TheLaughingMan · May 14, 2010

Easy Rhino said:
TPU did a review of the prior model here...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Bigfoot_Networks/KillerNIC_M1

so it has good insight into what some of the improvements will be to the new one.

I know, the debate I mentioned is the forum listing for that review.

I still think it is too much for what it does, but I would like to see a review of this new model.

Frick · May 14, 2010

BTW, is it just me who things the entire concept of "unleashing" is fun? It sounds like they're releasing a godzilla on mankind. Always makes me chuckle. :laugh:

Anyhow, I wouldn't buy this even if I was Bill Gates.

Suijin · May 14, 2010

This is a good product if you have a single core cpu. If you have at least 1 cpu core not being used completely then it doesn't really do anything for you.

Back when they were first released (single core days) then they were good, but still expensive for what you got. Now they are just expensive for no improvement.

$immond$ · May 15, 2010

newtekie1 said:
Correct, more evidence to our point.

OCZ AMD Black Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 S...

$94 after mail in rebate, I highly doubt even being able to afford this ram that I am going to go and buy this shit nic, if you cant affort 4Gb of ram you might want to consider a career change. (not directing this to you newtekie1)

IMO x64 bit OS's seem to perform faster than 32 bit Os's, especially in video encoding and gaming. Yup having both X64 OS and 4Gb+, 6Gb+ in my systems and yet I have no desire for this nic.

AsRock · May 15, 2010

Lol not another. eVGA made one a year or so ago well believe it was them. In the end there pointless getting but seems like some one try's this every so often.

LAN_deRf_HA · May 15, 2010

This review is terribly done and thus pretty much invalid, but I do like the concept of trying to control the testing environment more. http://www.bootdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1488&Itemid=56

gallinazo · Oct 2, 2010

Ok...sorry for jumping in the thread guys, but a couple questions popped in my mind

So...the KILLER cards are NICs that intend to enhance network stuff, games, but...How does this new iteration performs in non games stuff?
Many questions/scenarios, like:
How does it improves tansfers on the very system? Something akin to what TeraCopy <usually> does?
What about p2p? Not only in torrents but...say...emule; where it is usually kindda annoying how you got to test ports-forward-tweak firewalls, etc to get a good ping/rating connection <not to mention that i have had some troubles on getting kad connection on w7> Does this thing >could/can> adress such nuisances?
Or....what about streaming? Helps on getting something like youtube to behave better- OR more important to stream webcam signals better? With the advent of HD webcams I think thats a fair question.
And...and...well, those are the questions I can remember right now

Go on & throw your 2 cents guys.

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