Thursday, April 19th 2012
Killer Technology Launches New Killer High-Performance Network Controllers
Killer Technology (formerly Bigfoot Networks, before its Qualcomm buyout), launched two new network interface solutions aimed at gaming and enthusiast PCs, these include the Killer Wireless-N 1202, and Killer E2200 gigabit Ethernet, which are successors of Killer Wireless-N 1102/1103 and Killer E2100, respectively. Built in the mPCIe card form-factor, the Killer Wireless-N E1202 has quite a bit of Atheros DNA loaded into it (another subsidiary of Qualcomm), apart from Wireless-N, the E1202 also includes a Bluetooth controller. The Killer E2200 high-performance gigabit Ethernet controller will be available as both PCIe add-on card and embedded form (for motherboard manufacturers), it could be a refined, performance-optimized successor of the Killer E2100. Killer's USP is high performance using advanced offload of the network stack to a native application processor, resulting in lower pings that could help in multiplayer gaming. Both solutions will be available soon.
Source:
Engadget
9 Comments on Killer Technology Launches New Killer High-Performance Network Controllers
edit: they were provided an off the shelf router, yes - but you can guarantee it was picked for its compatibility with the chipset used in the killer NIC.
the previous version (1103) could do 450 Mbps. granted 1103 didn't have bluetooth, but seems like a sidegrade rather than upgrade.
But for me .. the big big worth of these cards .. You could Download Torrent(s) ALOT faster when gaming.
Was it worth the 250.00 I paid back in the day ..probably not. But I could afford it then (then! lol).
I have that card in a drawer right next too me .. and I am 100% it is faster then the on-board NIC of my 3month old motherboard. I would use it if Not due too the Lack of PCI slots.