$149.99 *Gameing* Network Card WTF

[Ferroto]

http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/

It's just your everyday 10\100\1000 NIC I don't even think it needs that poorly designed heat sink anyways.

[EEVblog]

Plenty of kids with cash to burn, they'll sell a ton of'em!

[desolatordan]

While it's benefit/cost is quite low, the reviews I've seen actually do show it improves ping. There's always a market for the top of the line product with no regard for price. It's got a heat sink because it's running at 400MHz w/ embedded linux. It also has very good control for setting the priority of different types of network traffic.

[Zero999]

That's funny, given that it has embedded Linux, it's ironic that Linux isn't on the list of supported operating systems!

[Ferroto]

I lost a considerable amount of respect for PC Gamer Magazine when they wrote a positive article on this card awhile back anyone can be bought nowadays sad really.

[Neilm]

Next thing you know people will be selling gold plated fuses.

Oh wait. http://www.aaudioimports.com/ShowProduct.asp?hProduct=37

[charliex]

Some network cards, like the intel pro, offload some of the heavy lifting onto the card itself which takes it the load off the tcp/ip stack.

[Brett]

Did you see it says, "Discontinued"?  Hahaha... guess it wasn't so popular after all.

[Simon]

Next thing you know people will be selling gold plated fuses.

Oh wait. http://www.aaudioimports.com/ShowProduct.asp?hProduct=37

haha high currents cause metal fatigue. Personally I think the net needs it's own police and trading standards that have no borders !

[Simon]

There's always a market for the top of the line product with no regard for price.

very true and born out by the prices we buy/sell goods for when dealing with military projects

[xani]

Did you see it says, "Discontinued"?  Hahaha... guess it wasn't so popular after all.

They still have some other NIC http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-xeno-pro/

All that is of source complete bullshit, only thing good nic can reduce is latency from PC to "nexthop" usually ISP router which on 100MBit ethernet is like 0.2-2 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.200 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.210 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.413 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.207 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.211 ms
its from linux, maybe on windows that "killer" nic would give 1-2ms tops. And it won't help when gamer's sister starts downloading youtube movies thru same connection (good router with software like Tomato or DD-WRT can tho ;] )