Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag 410
Cujo writes "The folks at GDHardare have an interview with Bigfoot Networks discussing the pending release of their Killer Network Card which is said to greatly reduce in-game latency. According to the Interview, this card uses a Linux-based subsystem to do its magic."
Is it credible? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh - and it runs FNapps, so as well as being good for games, its suitable for FNapping.
Klingons on the starboard bow! (Score:4, Funny)
Oooo... Killer (Score:5, Funny)
"This NIC is so hardcore it KILLED SOMEONE!"
I can just imagine their second version coming with a muzzle a la Silence of the Lambs.
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, this is for gamers, right? Don't most gamers run WINDOWS?
Re:Is it credible? (Score:5, Funny)
MBA's, huh? (Score:2, Funny)
That's just sad.
Well, that and the fact that their "product" is clearly incapable of giving anything near the boosts they claim it gives...
It must be good !! (Score:5, Funny)
Big laffs! (Score:3, Funny)
Of all the things a spiffy network card could do, reducing latency is just about the least likely.
They could have put 20mb of buffers on it.
They could buy glow-in-the-dark pc board material.
They could have put a handful of bright blinky led's on it.
They could even put on a 12AX7 vacuum tube to do something useful.
They could put built-in auto ping.
But what do they do? Put another layer of OS glop in the way. Big laffs!!
Re:Pricey (Score:5, Funny)
Will game soundtracks sound warmer, too? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oooo... Killer (Score:5, Funny)
And some VTEC stickers and a big-ass wing on it.
Yeah, that'd be phat, yo!
Pimp my NIC, bitches!
And at this point I would like to announce: (Score:5, Funny)
Killer IO-APIC!
Stay alert, kids, because we'll soon be announcing Killer Keyboard Controller with Bitchin' Gate A20 Technology!
Pwn!
w00t!
Re:Yes. (Score:2, Funny)
#1: Alice moving to (0,30)
#2: Alice moving to (0,20)
#3: Alice moving to (0,30)
#4: Alice moving to (0,10)
#5: Alice moving to (0,30)
"Look Alice is haveing a seizure"
Ted Stevens and I believe the card works (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone knows the internets is a series of tubes. Well, this card hurls your data through the tubes with such force that it can't possibly get stuck.
Make sure not to point the jack at anyone. You'll shoot someone's eye out.
Since I can write code for it... (Score:2, Funny)
if (packet.sender = "World of Warcraft") {
packet.contents('health') = "100%";
}
I'll never lose at WoW!
Re:Ted Stevens and I believe the card works (Score:5, Funny)
Okay that's it, I officially declare the 'internet is a series of tubes' reference not funny any more.
Thank you.
Re:Pricey (Score:3, Funny)
The cornerstone of any nutritious diet.
but does it run... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:4, Funny)
Where is the Disadvantage???? (Score:4, Funny)
That sounds like killing two birds with one stone....
1) Decrease my latency
2) Increase the latency of everyone else, including the snipers in CS
This could be a gamer's paradise... It will be infinite successful.
OTOH if it doesn't work, then it makes a great gift for a `friend'.
Re:Ted Stevens and I believe the card works (Score:4, Funny)
Okay that's it, I officially declare the 'internet is a series of tubes' reference not funny any more.
Thank you.
Sure Schemat1c, but not everyone reads Slashdot... could you send out an Internet to everyone about this ?
Re:Ted Stevens and I believe the card works (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, to be honest, of all the things said during that horrid speech, that was the most accurage. tubes/pipes, WTF is the difference?
Q: How is a tube like a pipe?
A: Neither of them has anything to do with the Internet.
Clearly, the Internet is a series of retards.
Re:So it's a QoS Network Card? (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah they're made from old Stradivaris.