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dragon · 10-01-2015, 00:38

Usually there is no reason to replace the NICunless you're experiencing issues with the existing one.

Occasionally some will have bad drivers or an incompatibility with either something in the pc itself or the bit of equipment they're connected to but it's fairly rare thesedays.

Also these Killer NIC's and such like make me laugh because lets face it it's really not going to be able to improve your latency since it's still connecting to a $2 chip in your router and the majority of the latency is usually in the access network anyway (E.g DSL or Cable segment, before it hits the Fibre back-haul) Even if the gaming NIC tagged the packets high priority any sensibly configured ISP network is going to discard user set QOS parameters in favor for any the ISP might choose to apply themselves (or none)

10-01-2015, 00:38	#7
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Re: Ethernet Card for Gaming Usually there is no reason to replace the NICunless you're experiencing issues with the existing one. Occasionally some will have bad drivers or an incompatibility with either something in the pc itself or the bit of equipment they're connected to but it's fairly rare thesedays. Also these Killer NIC's and such like make me laugh because lets face it it's really not going to be able to improve your latency since it's still connecting to a $2 chip in your router and the majority of the latency is usually in the access network anyway (E.g DSL or Cable segment, before it hits the Fibre back-haul) Even if the gaming NIC tagged the packets high priority any sensibly configured ISP network is going to discard user set QOS parameters in favor for any the ISP might choose to apply themselves (or none)