Items tagged with Killer
Hello Everyone. We've just posted a review of Bigfoot Networks' Killer NIC here at HotHardware.com. We explore framerate performance and ping times and discuss the underlying hardware and technology employed on the Killer. Here's a snip from the piece: "By now, we're all familiar...
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There has been a lot of talk within the industry of consolidation as of late. AMD's acquisition of ATI has been a hot topic ever since it was announced. And that acquisition has spurred rumors of an unlikely merger between Intel and NVIDIA. Both AMD and Intel have talked about...
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The gang at IGN have been chatting with the folks at Bigfoot Networks regarding the company's new $279 Killer gaming NIC. In essence, this new NIC offloads all the networking tasks from the CPU and OS and handles it onboard with its own 400MHz NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 64MB of RAM. As one might suspect...
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HardOCP has sat down with the company Bigfoot to analyze the new $279 Killer gaming NIC. In short, the card is a 10/100/1000 PCI network card that is equipped with a 400MHz onboard processor and a USB 2.0 port. Here, the company is touting significantly lower ping times and higher overall system performance. Then again, when...
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HardOCP has just published an editorial which illustrates the need AGEIA's PhysX hardware has for a killer application. As we referenced in our PhysX launch coverage, we agree with Kyle's perspective that the game developers are the key to this new hardware. Although technology demos are fun to watch and toy around with, at the end of the...
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Today Adrian's Rojak Pot reports about a little known feature in Windows XP, the Task Killer app. It goes a bit further than the "standard ctrl+alt+del", then "End Process" routine, and allows you to create batch files to get the job done. "Unknown to most users, there...
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VoodooPC's President and CTO Rahul Sood has made some very interesting comments in one of his latest blog entries. After illustrating the impact the iPod has made upon Apple's own products and the Consumer Electronics industry in general, he wraps up with some very intriguing comments that seem to indicate a new product coming from VoodooPC...
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Well folks, it's time for me to do my first all game info news post. Over time, I assure you it will get better... I may possibly add a small graphic banner to distinguish it from the normal news posts, and maybe a few other things. But...
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Good eveing all! We've got some interesting tid-bids this evening from several sites that are sure to get some attention. Let's jump right into the game and see what is going on! Plextor Introduces First PC-Based Personal Video...
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Happy Friday everyone. We;re closing out another busy week at HH, although we'll still be plugging away on hardware all weekend long. We've had a busy one this week so make sure you didn't miss anything! It looks like we're not the only ones cranking out content for you...
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Good morning friends, I hope you survived the night :) Myself, I kicked back for a little while and watch Scary Movie 3. I found the last two movies of the series mildly funny; however, I won't be recommending this one to...
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Good evening brothers and sisters :) The Ol'News Jockey is still not feeling on top of his game today, so nothing terrible exciting happened in my world. I have basically been veging-out in front of the computer with my new...
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