dual video

[foq]

Those killer NIC cards are a joke. They do nothing...
And I am going dual core soon with a pentium D.

[E]s-Doom]

u need to know what a killer nic card is for and if you do then ur doing something wrong the only thing it does is allow you to spoof your ping lower than it is

also it allows you to get the full usage out of youer t1-t3 internet bandwidth

[Alc]

Killer NIC cards do improve performance, they offload all network processing to the card, and prioritise UDP. Are they worth $280? Hell no, not to me anyway.

Back in the day there used to be the same kind of thing with software and hardware modems, except that hardware modems did actually make a noticeable difference.

[spooker]

they weren't "software" modems..... you cant plug a phone cord into software. they were just on board

[Alc]

they weren't "software" modems..... you cant plug a phone cord into software. they were just on board

Modem activity was handled through software by the PC's CPU instead of in hardware on the card.

Go read up on winmodems/softmodems.

[l33t]

stab yourself in the face and get some quake skills

[E]s-Doom]

i get alot of computer stuff for free from my dad so it is worth it to me

a killer nic card takes like 1% of processing away from the main processor
a standard nic card would just dump that 1% on ur processor

do i think its a waste?
yes
is it worth the price of free?
yes

[E]s-Doom]

just cuz i suck at quake doesnt mean i should stab myself in the face and besides the score was only 16-1 i got that 1 kill i needed

[l33t]

[spooker]

no matter where a component is--on the board or in a separate box from the computer--it has both a hardware and a software component

[Alc]

I don't really understand why you're arguing this. There were two varieties of modems, one lot termed "hardware" modems, and the other "software". The former would do a large amount of the processing and data management on their own, the latter offloaded all processing tasks to the PCs main CPU (and only came later, when PC CPUs could actually cope with that strain alongside running an OS). These were commonly accepted terms, obviously from an engineering standpoint they both incorporated some level of hardware and software, varying amounts of onboard logic, but we're talking about popular terminology.

I'm going to tell you to go and read up on softmodems again, since I don't think you're understanding the issue.