PowerColor Sniper HD 5770 + Killer NIC Up Close

[FreedomEclipse]

i think he meant could you keep the video card in and use the NIC and then install another graphic card. but the GPU would still be generating heat, sucking up power, and a dead gpu's fan always goes 100% so more noise as well. be very unintelligent to keep the card in.

stop trying to correct me!!!

I think - if the GPU is dead - the whole card would also be dead but again it depends on the level of integration the NIC has with the GPU (viceversa) theres too many anomalies in the equation to give a solid yes/no answer & due to this I think it would be correct to assume that in the event of shit happening when shit happens that both the GPU & NIC will be out of service requiring a lengthly trip back to manufacturer

 

[lism]

Its a gimmick idea but the killer nic has'nt proven anything to be spectacular and all. Your 'end' communication still lies between your modem and your ISP, which basicly would be the most hard obstacle to crossover.

Days of too low CPU power is nearly gone. You can overclock your CPU at decent ranges and some of them towards 4GHz. No need for a killer nick to reduce CPU load.

 

[a_ump]

stop trying to correct me!!!

hahaha i see it as it comes and must correct!!!! .

 

[Melted Rabbit]

Something to point out the SoC used with this implementation of the KillerNIC and all other KillerNIC implementations is based on the POWER/PowerPC architecture and is not ARM in any fashion. If you look at this image: http://www.techpowerup.com/img/10-06-01/126c.jpg you should be able to see the Freescale logo even with the TPU watermark. Freescale was once a part of Motorola. The part number appears to be MPC8314E, meaning the card pictured has the security engine enabled. The MPC8314E is described here: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8314E

Bigfoot Networks does not allow one to run arbitrary code on the KillerNIC series even though it does run Linux, so the following does not apply so much.
Just be thankful Bigfoot did choose the following SoC:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P1021

The e500 core on the P1021, while still POWER compliant, uses has a shared register file for integer and floating point instructions with 32 registers that are 64-bits wide. Which isn't at all normal.

Then again there is the P4080, with eight e500mc cores on a single die. The e500mc has a proper FPU, but is only a 32 bit processor, with support up to 16GB of memory total, and does so by using the same tricks as PAE on x86 processors.
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P4080

Mind you, there is no SIMD/Altivec unit in the P4080 and each core only has 128KB of L2 cache and 2MB total L3 cache. The P4080 is intended for 3G, 4G, and WiMax wireless base stations and not your home PC. Freescale also announced the chip in 2008, expecting it to sample soon and then enter production soon afterward, at least at the time. The P4080 is only sampling now, and production may take a while yet. But it is still eight CPU cores on one die.