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so this is a new series I'm developing where I'm going to be either pitting two products against one another or two settings against one another to see which gives the best performance for gaming so this is 120 Hertz is going to have frame latency it's going to have various tests and I hope you guys enjoy it so today first off we're going to have the ni CE to the router to the modem versus the ni C straight to the modem and we're going to see if it makes a difference now today I am using a relatively cheap router it's a $50 router and we're going to see if it makes a difference so let's get on to the results so jumping straight into the results we have on the left here no router with the speed test and on the right here another speed test with the router so head-to-head deep pings is I want you to ask to pay attention to the pings here because we managed to get 0 milliseconds and that's no lie that's no we've got 0 milliseconds with no router and 3 milliseconds with the router so I'm going to give the pings or the fastest pings - no router simply plugging your ni C straight into the modem and you know three milliseconds isn't much but it is still a slight edge to the no router now it's important to note that the download speeds were also significant I'm going to say significantly faster and the upload speeds could be ever so slightly put down to variance due to this being done first this test being done with no router first so I'm going to give the edge to on the spit on the pings I'm going to give the edge to no router let's move on now to the results in the frame latency tests ok so moving on to the frame latency test now we see that with no router this was done on black ops 2 with 80-second runs across six different Maps and I just did as you know as made it as sort of action-packed as possible and also did this with low settings on the GPU and the graphics no shadows and 120 Hertz art with vertical sync enable because I wanted to get the smoothest frame times without putting stress on the GPU or the CPU and now I want because I wanted to see how the the internet playing in an Internet environment affected the variables of no rather versus router so we see here no router on the six tests we did here the maximum frame latency that we recorded was 19 milliseconds and the second-worst below that was 213 millisecond response times so I thought actually 413 millisecond response times but I thought overall it did pretty well as we see in this frame here router number 3 it just performed really solid in that first I guess 30 second batch and then after that did a little little micro stutter so I thought it performed really well the no router and it's actually no coincidence so let's contrast this to the rent results with the router and I just think it's no coincidence that the no router versus the router the router scored the highest frame here was 22 milliseconds which is exactly 3 milliseconds above no router and especially with my tests that I did with speed test it was 3 milliseconds slower as well so I think overall I'm going to conclude that the router gives you a 3 millisecond delay in some instances where Internet data is needed to I guess processed the game or process the next you know frame in the game so that's all I can think of I mean I'd have to do more tests on definitely do a lot more tests with this because it is you know it's I'm opening up a new world of testing here but I think that the ultimately I think that the know router is just ever so slightly better and in conclusion I'm going to say that it doesn't really make that much of a difference honestly like for the average gamer you guys aren't going to notice this difference however I'm going to say though if you're a really competitive gamer especially a competitive FPS gamer then 3 milliseconds could technically matter and if it's the difference between you getting second place or first place then you know that's that slight competitive edge anyway guys I'm really interested to test on the next episode I'm going to be testing the N I see on board n IC versus the external pci-express ni see from Intel so I'm going to be packing these head dad I'm also going to be testing the real tech sorry no the killer ni C software and does that make any difference so I look forward to seeing you guys next week and if you enjoyed this please give it a thumbs up if you have any questions or comments please leave a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can anyway guys peace out for now bronies eBay