[ASUS] Tried And Tested: Why Intel Ethernet Is Still Better For Gaming.

[silberdrachi]

How many people actually play with maxed out connections from your desktop?

 

My connection might be maxed out from my home server/nas downloading something so software or hardware prioritization on my desktop does nothing. Even when i watch Netflix, download a file, and play BF4, i dont have an issue with ping at all. I seriously doubt that most people are flooding their connection from their PC while they are playing a game.

[totjup5]

I've never had issues and I have realtek lan I'm pretty sure. But having a 150 down 50 up connection helps I'm sure.

[Altecice]

Couldnt care less prolly less than 0.1% of gamers use Killer NECs, i would be 100 times more interested in a Realtek vs Intel network chips since realtek is nowdays the dominant standard used in motherboards for PC gaming.

 

Realtek are not the dominant standard The vast majority of high end boards use Intel Lans as they are the best. I hear a lot of horror story's about Realtek LANs just dying on people (as happend to a friend of mine). 

But i agree Realtek vs Intel would be worth a read

[Altecice]

The example with World of Warcraft is irrelevant on two counts. The first count being that the game is playable even with a latency of 100 milliseconds. The second being the fact they are still downloading game data so that is going to take up some bandwith and cause the higher latency.

 

The software will, most likely reduce latency, but not by that rediculous amount that the World of Warcraft example is showing.

 

The game client downloads the patches etc and you would hope they set that to "off" at the time of testing. 

[Joshyy]

Realtek are not the dominant standard The vast majority of high end boards use Intel Lans as they are the best. I hear a lot of horror story's about Realtek LANs just dying on people (as happend to a friend of mine). 

But i agree Realtek vs Intel would be worth a read

 

Can confirm, had to play BF4 on WiFi, wasn't fun.

 

 

I've just done 2 tests, one with Gamefirst on, and one with gamefirst off, incase anyone was interested. Both times I was saturating my bandwidth in the Diablo tests downloading off steam. 

 

Gamefirst off, Speedtest (3 times)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452855854

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452857554

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452859169

 

Averages:

Ping:16.3

DL:155.6

UL:12.12

 

Gamefirst off, Diablo 3, average ping (30 seconds) US servers

 

172ms 

 

 

Gamefirst on, Speedtest

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452870517

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452874121

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3452875733

 

Ping:16.6*

DL: 153.17

UL: 12.10

 

Gamefirst on, diablo 3 

184ms

 

 

 

So to conclude on my internet, increases my ping, decreases my throughput and uses 45mb of my memory. 

[KakaoDj]

Can confirm, had to play BF4 on WiFi, wasn't fun.

 

 

I've just done 2 tests, one with Gamefirst on, and one with gamefirst off, incase anyone was interested. Both times I was saturating my bandwidth in the Diablo tests downloading off steam. 

 

 

 

So to conclude on my internet, increases my ping, decreases my throughput and uses 45mb of my memory. 

Great job with the testing  So it's just another gimmick?   :rolleyes: