Most of the time, the best advice for improving performance in online gaming is to get a better graphics card, or maybe more system memory. The humble network card rarely gets a look in.

Well, the KillerNic is anything but humble. In either claims, performance or price.

I met with the founder who designed server network cards for Intel (and lists his job title as Mad Scientist as well as CEO) and it is a very interesting product.

Basically it bypasses all of the networking stuff in Windows, dealing with it faster and taking the load off the computer. It can do this because it is actually a complete computer system on one chip, with it's operating system. This promises to reduce ping (the delay between computers in a game) and improve frames per second.