07-14-06, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by scandium
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by TteFAboB
What the hell?!
L, O, L, comma-slash, close parenthesis.
Now I know why Server-sized computer cases became so popular. It's not because of style or small penial size. It's a bare necessity for the future. Double-sized video-cards, dual CPUs, physics cards, space required for that real cricket-based Pac-Man game, and now network cards, not to mention the biological human-brain unit required for advanced AI, I mean, plain I, without the A.
Does this thing really decrease Ping times?
Or people out there are simply trying to fill all your mother-board slots for the sake of filling your mother-board slots?
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Net cards used to take a high CPU load, but I think this has gone too far, especially since CPU speeds are so high. This card to me is just snakeoil until I see that it really does some verifyable reduced ping times.
It does offload your CPU (in my case, a dual CPU so I am probably less affected by it), but I doubt it does anyting really useful.
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Yep, my sentiments as well. Little more than a prettied up Gigabit NIC with its own onboard processor, but on a gaming rig this doesn't mean squat; its tailored made for the crowd with more cash to waste than common sense (ie: a useless gimmick to pretty up the case internals, and useless because any decent board out now already has decent Gigabit lan onboard). |
Exactly. I decided to hold off on the Physics card too. Almost bought Aegia version, but said - what the hell am I actually buying? The Ghost Recon demo didn't impress me either. I guess the only real use for it is 3DMark 2006 (Which will use a physics card). No thanks!
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