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Why use a Killer NIC when you have a perfectly good onboard NIC. These cards are nothing more than rubbish anyway coz your ping state is based on varying network traffic conditions once the data leaves your ADSL modem. Signal To Noise Ratio and Line Attenuation (which your modem should tell you somewhere) will govern the PING response. You can have all the best networking equipment in the world but still be on old PSTN lines and 3.5 to 4km from the exchange and have crappy ping times, or you could have the best PSTN lines in the world and be 3.5 to 4km from the exchange and have good ping times. There are other governing factors such as server load, ISP network load and more that result in poor or good ping times. The Killer NIC was, and I'll be blunt here, probably a waste of money. If you didn't want to use the onboard NIC, just sticking in any 1GB NIC to the PCI slot on your MB would do the same thing as the the Killer NIC, sure it would have to use the windows stack but there's nothing wrong with the windows stack. In actual fact you can recover the extra 20% that windows keeps in reserver back again thus speeding up your network a little bit more.
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