Bigfoot Killer NIC 10/100/1000 PCI 400 MHz NPU RJ-45 USB 2.0 Retail

Average customer rating: 4.0

The new age in Online Gaming
Well worth the money for me.
The best gaming NIC you can buy
expensive and not worth the price

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Bigfoot Killer NIC 10/100/1000 PCI 400 MHz NPU RJ-45 USB 2.0 Retail

Manufacturer: Bigfoot Networks
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000J4J8NW

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Product Description

The Killer NIC Network Interface Card gives you the best gaming experience money can buy. Not only does it give you lower pings and a smoother online gaming experience, it also looks stellar inside your rig and gives you the ability to run applications on its Network Processing Unit (NPU) rather than on your CPU.The Killer NIC delivers you a faster online gaming experience by ensuring that your data gets to the game as quickly and efficiently as possible. This means you will get more stable and lower latencies and more frames per second in your favorite online games which results in a smoother game play experience while you are in the heat of online battle.

Customer Reviews:

The new age in Online Gaming.......2007-05-17

Being in Hawaii, I needed to bridge the gap across the pond to the states. Even with a rig that would make 99.9% of people in the PC builder community drool, latency and lag can still be a killer. So instead, I turned my connection into a killer :) I am very impressed with this card and reccomend it to anyone in the gaming community.

Well worth the money for me........2006-11-28

This card really delivers. I have never seen World of Warcraft, CounterStrike, and Battlefield 2 play so fast before. It is much less laggy than it used to be without the Killer.

This card was worth the money for sure.

The best gaming NIC you can buy.......2006-11-23

Anyone who doesn't like this card, doesn't understand what it does.

This is not a normal NIC. The processor on the card actually bypasses the windows network stack.

There is no other network card capable of doing this.

The increase to frame rate and ping that the killer nic website brags about are actually not its biggest selling point for me. Those are just bonuses.

The best thing about this card is its ability to smooth out network performance. This isnt measurable by numbers, but in how it actually feels in real world use.

I honestly can not play online games without this card anymore.

And the price? Your buying a linux cpu and extra ram. Its more than justified.

If any of you were around years ago when seperate graphics cards were first released, than you will remember the flaming people who said "my standard mobo vid card is good enough". now those seperate graphics cards are virtually required for gaming.

Well what if those seperate graphics cards were no better than the mobo card? there wouldnt have been a point. Thats what other network cards are like. They just toss packets through the standard process.

This is the first and only NIC that outsources the network process the way a graphics card outsources the graphics process. Offloading all the work from the cpu.

Bottom line is this: Does your computer suck? than yea, dont waste your time buying a $250 NIC.

Do you actually care about your computer? Do you have a video card worth at least $200? do you play online games?

This is the next step up.

Just to compare; I bought a $400 graphics card right before I bought my killer. Swapping them out and comparing the performance increases, I get more net gain with the killer than I do with the graphics card alone.

Obviously putting in both (for me) is the way to go.

This is a whole new world for gaming. There is nothing else out there that
can improve your online gaming in quite the same way; and any other upgrades your considering are still going to benifit from having the killer as well.

Heck, for some of you with really high end gaming rigs that are already worth thousands, i cant imagine you wouldnt want to also improve your network connection performance. and for those of you with mid range systems, this card at this price is going to give as good or better performance increase than anything else you could upgrade to in this price range.

I could go on ... and on... but honestly... i never expected it to be this good. and i cant imagine playing without it anymore.

Not only that... but theres programs coming out that will be able to run on the killers processor without tying up cpu performance, try that with any other network card

expensive and not worth the price.......2006-10-30

I saw no change in network performance. A network is only as fast as its weakest link which will always be the ISP.
Furthermore, if you wish to play on a LAN, then all the computer connected will require the same card to get that extra 7% of whatever its promising. Honestly, a standard gigabit card with proper switching hub will be super fast and be alot less money. Unless your just buying it for the metal K which you cannot even see because its facing down in the case.
All in all... your better of buying a better video card or more memory.

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