Intel NIC for gaming?

[orangecat]

I really want a dedicated NIC but I want it to be black so it matches my PC. I don't want a ugly little green PCB in my PC and I want to get away from using onboard controllers on my motherboard.

[rufee]

Paint it ?

Other than that i think only Killer offers black PCB's, but they are a ripoff for what you can get using an Intel NIC.

[orangecat]

Paint it ?

Other than that i think only Killer offers black PCB's, but they are a ripoff for what you can get using an Intel NIC.

True Intel NIC's are really good but they are all so ugly.

[rufee]

Whats your onboard controller ?

[SteepGnomeKing]

I don't think Killer nic's are a rip off my wireless card works amazingly well. In benchmarks it does better than a Intel nic.

Unless you mean rip off as in priced to high than maybe they aren't cheap.

[VxDoomxV]

Computer functionality > looks.

 

edit: slap a dragon sticker on it if you want it to look cool.

[LAwLz]

I don't think Killer nic's are a rip off my wireless card works amazingly well. In benchmarks it does better than a Intel nic.

Unless you mean rip off as in priced to high than maybe they aren't cheap.

Can you please post some benchmarks which shows the Killer NIC beating Intel's NICs?

 

Also, OP just use your onboard Intel, it's really good. Why do you want a dedicated NIC anyway? It's simply not worth the money unless your motherboard has a really bad one built in (for example doesn't support 1Gigabit/s) or you need something even better (for example 10Gigabit/s).

[gibbsy81]

Intel nics work fine for gaming so you should be fine with a on board intel nic

[SteepGnomeKing]

Can you please post some benchmarks which shows the Killer NIC beating Intel's NICs?

 

 

One from Tom's hardware and Anandtech and a smaller review by Maximum PC

 

Some parts it loses or doesn't win by much but some it just blows the competition out of the way. Lower ping times with a higher latency most of the time.

[Ssoele]

One from Tom's hardware and Anandtech and a smaller review by Maximum PC

 

Some parts it loses or doesn't win by much but some it just blows the competition out of the way. Lower ping times with a higher latency most of the time.

 

This is for WiFi, but we are talking about wired NICs.

[LAwLz]

One from Tom's hardware and Anandtech and a smaller review by Maximum PC

 

Some parts it loses or doesn't win by much but some it just blows the competition out of the way. Lower ping times with a higher latency most of the time.

Oh you were talking about it for wireless. I thought you were talking about wired.