Forget about PPU, we need THIS :D.

I wonder how much it's going to cost. I have a feeling it's not going to be worth it though

This product ranks right up there with the beverage Jolt or the other caffeine laced Lamer beverages... The sheep will be lined up to purchase this card until they find out they are unable to use it because the latest SLI/Crossfire mobos don't have enough PCI slots to use this card with proper two-slot Vid card cooling. Gee, who wouldda thunk???

Duh !

Meh... I'll pass.

Looks like a nic with a pointless heatsink to me. Plus some bells and whistles.

Lies! A much better solution would be to get a router with prioritization like the DGL-4300. After getting that router lag isn't even a word anymore unless it's the server.

y r there 2 input ports on the nic?

whats hte point of that huge HS on it, u'll never see its design anyways, unless ppl. keep a mirror on the bottom of their case......

i bet, theyll make a fata1ty edition soo too....... itll b all red with built on LEDs. rofl
iam amazed no other company is sponsoring a "pro gamer"

oldschoolThis product ranks right up there with the beverage Jolt or the other caffeine laced Lamer beverages... The sheep will be lined up to purchase this card until they find out they are unable to use it because the latest SLI/Crossfire mobos don't have enough PCI slots to use this card with proper two-slot Vid card cooling. Gee, who wouldda thunk???

Duh !

I still have 2 out of 3 PCI slots left open even with waterblocks on my cards. The older boards will suffer, but almost all newer boards have much better spacing/layout of the PCI slots.

POGELooks like a nic with a pointless heatsink to me. Plus some bells and whistles.

Yes but it looks SO SO pretty:laugh:

besides it being pretty pointless...why not make it PCIe x1??

This thing sure looks nice. I wouldn't mind having one like everyone else :)

My latency to my router is under 1 millisecond, from my router to whatever host has nothing to do with my NIC. How could this NIC make my latency lower? As for CPU load, I don't think my Intel NIC gives me a huge load or anything...

Well my question is what does it matter? unless your playing on overseas servers with friends I doubt it'll make a big difference. Most people join servers in their region anyway. I never ping in USEAST over 30 anymore and I just have standard Cable. This will have to be cheap to sell at all.

its pointless this thing like dan pointed out the load of the most onboard nics is under 1%

and the ping depends apart from lan on your dsl/cable speed


But on Lan it may helps you a bit^^

The only way it will sell is if its under $30.

oldschoolThe sheep will be lined up to purchase this card until they find out they are unable to use it because the latest SLI/Crossfire mobos don't have enough PCI slots to use this card with proper two-slot Vid card cooling. Gee, who wouldda thunk???

Well, I use an ASUS A8N-SLI board, & it has:

A.) 2 x16 PCI-e SLI vidcard slots (& the 2nd can function up to PCI x4 when NOT in "SLI" - this is going to house a DDRDrive 4gb DDR PCI-e Solid-State drive when it releases)

B.) 1 x4 PCI-e slot (used by a Promise Caching HDD Controller 128mb ECC RAM & Intel SuperI/O chip-brain for it)

C.) 1 PCI-e x1 slot (this you have a point on oldschool) which my GeForce 7900GTX "covers it up" via its 2-slot heatsink/phase-change cooling system..

:(


Though that NIC does SOUND GOOD (it would be great @ a LAN party, but online via the public internet? Not sure, because of potentials in internet "inclement weather conditions" like pings, congestion, server slownesses (they do happen))...

BUT, I don't think I could "Fit that in" (literally) w/ out giving up wanting to do the DDRDrive, & I won't do that...

See photo, see what I mean, & probably around same lines as what oldschool is stating what will happen (mine is an "Extreme case" imo, some 'off-the-wall/non-std' stuff is in it already eating up PCI-e slots though):



(I can't do this: Not if I want to do that DDRDrive x1 PCI-e/DDR1 unit! Mainly, so I can put the CENATEK "RocketDrive" SSD I have in the bottom of the case pictured, back into the system it came from here (2nd rig P4 3.2ghz, GeForce 6800 GT OC, WD Raptor 36gb 10k rpm disk))

APK

P.S.=> Great idea, for LAN parties & local home LAN use imo, more than anything else... but, you never know!

Some folks will buy these I am sure, & let us know "What's-what"... apk

maybe kick out of your case the s-ata controller and use the onboard one? i huess its not faster/slower this way

No, that ABSOLUTELY stays

gR3iFmaybe kick out of your case the s-ata controller and use the onboard one? i huess its not faster/slower this way

I dunno, read on as to some results I had here with it in tests I ran vs. others here (INSTG8R & his "perpendicular recording technology" Seagate drive, where I won 2/3 tests (seek/access & CPU use, he won reads (big margin win too imo, that new tech is good too))):

forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=13650

(My CENATEK "RocketDrive" was included in that test too, interesting comparing ALL 3 types of tech imo!)

Besides, time to get "back-on-track"/to subject @ hand:

There is a reason I use this RAID Caching Controller:

It's not your ordinary RAID controller is why (like onboard ones): It's different in that it has its own 128mb ECC Ram cache (in chips onboard) & managed by its OWN "cpu" for disk I/O (offloading the system CPU as well, bonus, for things disk I/O oriented)...

In a test I did here in the URL above, it way exceeded even the SATA bus speed of 150mb/sec on benchmark HDD Tach here!

Admittedly, I don't KNOW if this is "typical results" or not, on std. onboard RAID controllers, but imo, it is not (since it exceeded the bus speed ceiling & scored around 169mb/sec iirc, & used an amazing 0% cpu in doing so - bursting from its caches no doubt over a PCI-e x4 bus)!

:)

* No man... it stays!

(Damn good part imo @ least, & given the results - big fan over time of caching HDD controllers for those reasons in fact!)

APK

I hope it performs well and is cheap.

yay for PCI bus, pointlessly bottlenecking it to sub-gigabit speeds from the start!. yay for being 100x larger than needed, having 1 NIC port, and generally being useless.
far better solution: take any random crap old computer (ie p2) and 2 PCI NICs and set up a smoothwall or IPCOP router. I did and hot damn it smokes retail routers. theres a reason corporations use smoothwall or IPCOP boxen (or similar PC-based router systems) for routers... crap they're fast.