In the ongoing efforts to squeeze every possible performance improvement out of their computing rig, most folks focus almost exclusively on the two heavy hitters in their system when it comes to generating frames per second (FPS): CPU and video card. Is it possible that both consumers and hardware manufacturers have been overlooking an untapped area for improvement? Enter the Killer NIC from Bigfoot Labs, who has targeted their product directly at gamers by making the rather impressive claim that their network card will not only lower your in-game lag, it will also increase your FPS. How does it do this? The answer is a bit technical, as one might expect, but in essence the Killer NIC bypasses the Windows networking stack completely, sending all networking calls directly to the card for processing.



Link: Pugetsystems