Gadgetory

so today I have a new product it is the killer Zeno Pro this is a vision tech card now Bigfoot networks the creators of the killer Nick used to be the only board manufacturer that they authorized to produce their killer gaming network cards but vision tech has been brought on board to produce a xeno Pro gaming card now Bigfoot claims that you can get up to 40% faster performance in online games and 27% smoother frame rates this card does include a copy of EverQuest to the shadow Odyssey if you are so inclined you will need okay here we go you will need a PCI Express 1x slot on your motherboard and high-speed Internet access via cat5 in order to make use of this card so let's open it up and while I'm opening the box here I'm just gonna sort of give you guys a little bit of background on just exactly why we have this killer gaming network card we are going to be doing a test on NCIX tech tips so not on my video blog but on my my sort of more professional channel where we will be comparing the killer Nick side-by-side in two identical core i5 based gaming systems running EverQuest two to see if we can isolate exactly where the performance improvement comes from so that's gonna be coming up in the next little while and if I've already done it I'll be putting in an annotation to give you the link to go visit it anyway let's find out what comes in the box here so it has a one-year warranty and the first thing you'll find inside the box is the killer is you know oh let's take it out actually let's see the accessories first sorry I'm gonna make you guys wait okay there's the accessories so inside we will find a killer Zeno Pro gaming network card drivers disk as well as oh no you can't see that as well as our EverQuest to download and CD key ok and then we have the Quick Start Guide of their software version 5.0 point 2.0 and actually I would definitely recommend you download the latest software off of Bigfoot networks site ok that's interesting so what was it ok well let's get some card itself in so pull this baby out so at the bottom of the card they've done away with the old classic huge metal k heatsink that we used to see on these things so we find a couple of RAM chips we find the killer NPU or network processing unit itself here's our PCI Express 1x interface and then let's flip the card over to the back where we will find not a whole lot but it is tested to comply with FCC standards so that's terrific okay on the back of the card we will find a Gigabit Ethernet port so that's where that's where most of the business of this card is done then we'll find a USB port now killer does support the use of third-party apps that can make use of this hardware so for example these ports the microphone and headphone jacks can be made use of by some voice chat programs like mumble to reduce the latency in those as well as in your games and to offload the audio processing completely from your CPU or your sound card to the killer NIC itself and the USB port can be used I believe for storage devices as well as many other uses now thank you for checking out my unboxing of the killer xeno pro