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As we’ve mentioned several times in the past, we wanted to begin to post more hardware performance benchmarks, reviews, and guides on Lagwar.com. Jesma has done a great job of this so far and I’m hoping to begin a series of articles to contribute to our PC Hardware section.

 Killer K1 NIC Test - Introduction [1:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For our latest venture, we have received a model K1 – Killer Network Interface Card, courtesy of RevolutionPC.net. The K1 Killer NIC is the baseline model of Bigfoot Networks innovative way of how your PC’s network handles and processes data packets, particularly with online gaming. A simpler summary of what it does comes straight from Bigfoot Networks, “Killer NICTM K1 provides smoother, more responsive gameplay in all of your favorite MMO and FPS games. Featuring LLRTM Technology (Lag and Latency Reduction), the Killer NICTM K1 increases frame-rates and minimizes lag that occurs in high-action or crowded games.”

–The Killer NICTM K1 is the affordable gaming networking card powered by Bigfoot’s Lag and Latency Reduction (LLR) Technology. With a 333 MHz Network Processing Unit (NPU), the Killer NICTM K1 provides less lag at a great price. Combine its native acceleration and offloading with even more new features: Killer Hardware Bandwidth Control to manage your PC’s non-game traffic and Killer Hardware Firewall to live fast and worry-free in your router’s DMZ, and you can have unprecedented online gaming speed on your PC. The Killer K1 sports an MSRP of $149.99.– Full product marketing documentation available here.

A few of the games I will be testing the K1 in are Call of Duty 4 and World of Warcraft because of their easily accessible latency (ping) displays and I will also perform a frame rate performance test in Warhammer Online due to the current performance concerns within the community. All tests will compare latencies and frames per second facing off standard onboard ethernet against the Killer K1 Network Interface Card.

Check back soon as we will be testing and posting our results next week, with a hopeful date of May 13th.