 is their connection to other gamers. They’ll shell out the extra $20 a month for that additional 100kps on their DSL. But if your system is lagging due to its own resources, a fast connection is wasted bandwidth. The Killer has “LLR” (Latency and Lag Reduction) to improve those oh-so-important ping times.</p>
<p>In addition, it runs a micro version of Linux, so really it’s a PC within your PC. It could theoretically be <s>hacked</s> modded to do all sorts of stuff that currently run “background” without affecting your system’s performance. BitTorrent and such comes to mind.</p>
<p>Before rushing out to buy one, however, note that it’s still new, and these claims have been lab-tested, but real-world milage may vary. Until it’s got some real street-time, you may want to just lust over it’s Mortal Kombat-like chrome K.</p>
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A PC within a PC….hmmm! Quite a potential market for some hardware manufacturer i think!
i wonder, if i put this in my macpro, could i run bootcamp off of it? so i could always have it running? taht would be cool!!1
just kidding. it looks like part of a klingon starship.
will this thing turn a dail-up connection into a broad-band connection.
Yes