For those that missed it, its been a pretty quiet announcement.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-networks.aspx
Working on getting more info out of Qualcomm.
For those that missed it, its been a pretty quiet announcement.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-networks.aspx
Working on getting more info out of Qualcomm.
Originally Posted by FUGGER
This deal vindicates Bigfoot and Killer products. Too bad we'll probably never SEE those products again.
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Well nVidia bought PhysX, and only then it took off, maybe the same will happen now with KillerNIC ? I know a third of ASUS motherboards use Atheros network chip, so it's a popular company.
If Qualcomm decides to sell Bigfoot's ICs by themselves at a reasonable cost, it's possible we'll see it become significant. The price premium just doesn't make sense most of the time when the hardware doesn't even perform all that great compared to say an Intel adapter. It's good, but not impressive good.
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Wait, physX took off?
Nothing is related between ageia and those cards .. Nvidia bough PhysX and have made it a software engine who was run on existing Nvidia card. This have remove the bigger problem of Ageia card who was peoples was not so interested to buy an additional hardware ( and not cheap ) for only a few games compatible ..
This type of network cards are different... peoples buy Sata Pci express card when indeed they have allready SATA controller on their motherboard... the problem is for large public, their Marvell Lan is enough.
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Its one of if not the most popular physics engine out there, so yeah.
In hardware implementation terms which would be in context with this thread because talking about hardware acceleration implementation in games then no it has not.
Last edited by Final8ty; 09-02-2011 at 12:12 PM.
the hardware in the killer nic was nothing special, the software was what got the gains if there were any
you mean is one of the more popular particle effects engines, i cannot think of a game that uses NV physX for physics that changes intractable in game items (there was the ghost recon but it failed badly and that was agea physX)
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I thought ti was Gigabyte?
I also thought Atheros had a ton of problems? At least in Minecraft they do. Half the people with an Atheros chipset cant even play Minecraft multiplayer. This could be a very good thing, or a very bad thing.
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So does this mean if we purchase one of those Killer Nic addon cards would could find our selfs with an unsupported piece of hardware with no updates ?
How does this effect the Giga MB's that have this on the motherboard ?
The killer stuff is all based on atheros hardware with some impressive software/fimware tweaks. Atheros has been part of qualcomm for a while already so nothing will change really.
FWIW the killer 1103 wireless-n card is an absolute screamer, performs far better than the intel 6300 at everything from file transfers to server pings, sometimes by a huge margin. Heck, even the 1102 can outrun the 6300.
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That matters why? People like to bash Nvidia any chance that they get. I just wanted to point out that these same people are playing tons of games that use physx. Yes, not gpu accelerated physx but if the option were available on the consoles I would imagine that it would be taken advantage of more. Any other engine or implementation has the hell of a competitor.
To say that physx was a bad buy for Nvidia or is non-existent is just laughable.
Wait there are updates to the Bigfoot NIC on the mobos? LOL
I think only the G1 X58 and the R3EBE and the new Sniper 2 have it onboard, its a very few number of boards.
Software physx was widely used anyway so it makes no odds & no one said its non existent because everyone knows about Software physx being used allot so when people talk about physx being a failure its about the acceleration aspect & plus the context of this thread makes that obvious.
I remember Mirror Edge game that uses physics for how curtains move in the wind and how glass shatter. With PhysX enabled, and no nVidia GPU it will drop below 10 fps on a Quadcore, but with a GTX280 it will run at around 35 fps, so it does work and does give acceleration, and it's not a failure.
People are so critical because they all know perfectly well that those curtains and glass could easily be done on the spare cores of that quad, NV aren`t fooling anyone for a minute. Anyway, OT.
How do you compare buying Bigfoot networks with buying Ageia without taking the other aspects of physx into account? Like I said comparing the two is laughable.
I remember a few games & no one said it didn't work & there is no reason to even think of such a suggestion, the point is nVidia GPU PhysX is a failure because its not used for game world physical altering physics & is only used for cosmetics & in not many titles at all for the amount of time its been out.
The amount of really good games to have even cosmetics nVidia GPU PhysX can be counted on one hand.
Last edited by Final8ty; 09-03-2011 at 04:39 AM.
Now you have moved to the classic of hair splitting semantics when you know full well what the points was & has been answered already.
How do you test that ? I've been running an onboard Killer Nic card on a G1 Sniper board and I notice zero to nothing in Ping when playing online games in comparison to a similar specced X58 board with Intel NIC onboard... want to know how wireless goes with him...
Last edited by Leeghoofd; 09-03-2011 at 05:07 AM.
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Read anandtech's review of wireless cards.
I want to know how 3NZO tested it... not how I should test it...
(clarified my previous post)
Last edited by Leeghoofd; 09-03-2011 at 05:07 AM.
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I ment software Sin
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