Had been running a Killer Xeno Pro until a few days ago. Loved the network traffic prioritization feature, and loved the idea that it was offloading stuff from the CPU.
I say "until a few days ago" because that's when the card seemed to have died. So, I pulled it out and switched to my motherboard's onboard NIC.
As a result of this switch from dedicated network hardware to generic onboard software-driven stuff, my overall experience... didn't change at all. At least, it didn't change as far as I can tell with Diablo 3 and normal YouTube HD streaming duties. Nothing seems to be worse than it was with the Killer.
I still love the idea of dedicated hardware, but evidently this thing was doing nothing detectable for me. When I bought it, I was playing WoW and I think running a slower rig, so the Killer might have made sense then. Now, I'm not sure it was adding anything other than heat...
I wish I had come to this conclusion a couple of years ago when I quit WoW. I would have switched this NIC over to my jury-rigged file server, where it might have done some real good...
I say "until a few days ago" because that's when the card seemed to have died. So, I pulled it out and switched to my motherboard's onboard NIC.
As a result of this switch from dedicated network hardware to generic onboard software-driven stuff, my overall experience... didn't change at all. At least, it didn't change as far as I can tell with Diablo 3 and normal YouTube HD streaming duties. Nothing seems to be worse than it was with the Killer.
I still love the idea of dedicated hardware, but evidently this thing was doing nothing detectable for me. When I bought it, I was playing WoW and I think running a slower rig, so the Killer might have made sense then. Now, I'm not sure it was adding anything other than heat...
I wish I had come to this conclusion a couple of years ago when I quit WoW. I would have switched this NIC over to my jury-rigged file server, where it might have done some real good...