VisionTek released a new gaming Network Card that is Killer 2100. It is basically used to reduce the latency in a line NIC's which purport and ping times while gaming. Forged with the perfect blend of gaming passion and technical know-how, the Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card is quite simply the fastest network card available for online games. Game Networking DNA Only Bigfoot Networks’ Killer 2100 has exclusive Game Networking DNA combining the benefits of a dedicated network processor, Windows network stack, CPU offload and other technologies designed to deliver the best online gaming experience possible.
It Automatically classifies and accelerates traffic to and from your game faster than any other desktop, networking product on the planet. The Visual Bandwidth Control looks which applications are hogging bandwidth and tune performance for each, so they don’t interfere with your game. Also application Blocking provides per-application control to block programs that access the network for increased performance and safety. There is Automatic Bandwidth Sensors which measures total networking bandwidth and monitor real-time usage details for each application, so you can optimize your online gaming experience.
The gray line represents the latency of a standard motherboard network controller during a game benchmark. As you can see, it averages 6.04 milliseconds, but spikes up to 10.5 milliseconds at least once during the 90 second test. In fact, it’s difficult to predict when a standard NIC will actually swing into high latency repeated runs of this test will generate different values. The yellow line represents the UDP latency of a Killer 2100. As you can see, its average latency is 251 MICROseconds, with spikes no higher than 317 microseconds.
These test results are remarkable. This shows that:
- Latency in game networking conditions is an erratic, noisy affair, where the actual latency generated by your network card in no way resembles the “ping” number you see in your game.
- Latency in standard NICs swings wildly compared to what we’ve previously understood.
- The advantages provided by Killer 2100 are unbeatable. In the above case, almost 24 times faster than the measured onboard NIC
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