It is really hit or miss but if you are having stability issues or blue screens pointing to your network card(s) or network connectivity issues, it wouldn't hurt to try this. I have updated my BIOS a few times since but always left the network as the Atheros AR8161. Doing the above fix about 3-4 months ago has fixed my issues with the network card being flaky.
I found with my own motherboard, Gigabyte M5.Sniper, the Killer NIC suite and the generic driver resulted in system instability on both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. There are numerous threads and within the past 2 months a few stickies have been added to their forums for this. Not always but enough it got a response from MSI that the Killer NIC software suite and often just the generic driver itself will result in system instability with both Windows 8 (Most often) and Windows 7(on occasion). There is a major thread over on MSI's support forums in regards to their laptops and motherboards that incorporate the Killer NIC and Killer WLAN. Razer Blackwidow Chroma X UK | T480 UK Lumi Logitech G305 Lightspeedy Wireless | Lenowo TouchPad & Logitech G305 Seasonic Prime 1200 watt 80Plus Platinum (Backup Seasonic Focus PX 750W Platinum) | 65W LG UltraGear 27GP850-B | LG 48CX OLED 4K HDR | AUO 14" 1440p IPSįractal Design Meshify 2 Tempered Glass White/Black | Lenowo T480 chassis Gigabyte M30 1TB|Sabrent Rocket 2TB|850EVO 1TB|Exos 16TB|10TB|1TB \ SKHynix 256GB 2242 3x2 XFX Radeon™ RX 7900 XT Speedster Merc 310 20GB | Nvidia MX 150 2GB GDDR5 Micron Noctua NH-D15 Chromax.Black (Only middle fan) \ Lenowo WN-2 Below a couple of screen-shots from the software suite.īelow some example screenshots of the Killer software suite.Lynni with a Flare \ Lenowo TwinkPad T480Īsus Prime X670-P WiFi Bios v. It is a lovely solution and the software suite is just grand AND you can shape network traffic on your PC and monitor it. The sheer hardware design and next to it the software, is just really good though offering you a wide variety of settings and monitoring options. The NIC can do very little about that, especially with the excellent Intel and Realtek NICs available these days.
in-between the router and the destination. Now the Killer gets traffic from the network, to the game, and back out to the network faster than any other PC network card.īut I've always been a bit skeptical about the NIC as we say that lag is created outside your home network, e.g. This expensive NIC will allow you to game online with less lag. Many people frown upon Killer NICs, but the new E2400 NICs and the AC WIFI Killer combo is honestly pretty good. The motherboard has one Killer Gigabit Ethernet Controller / jack, the Killer E2400.
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