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. Afterwards you have a perfectly working ethernet without any software fuss.The motherboard is armed with Killer Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Killer E2400. Now just point to the driver directory and Windows will do the rest. It doesn't come with an installer but you can just enter Windows device manager after a reboot and choose to update the driver for the unknown ethernet device listed there.

As you will lose the ethernet connection you should have the driver downloaded above ready to install. This will completely remove the Killer software including the driverwhich is safer than just uninstalling the software via Windows (which will still also remove the driver). To fix all issues while keeping the NIC fully functional one should use pure drivers without the suite which are offered >here>64bit>32bit<<): Unfortunately Qualcomm Atheros (as well as the Killer software packages available on MSI sites) does not allow to just install the driver but forces to install the software to install the driver. Many reports about issues related to the Killer NICs can be found and result in a lot of frustration for the users.Īctually these problems (bluescreens, lags, bandwith limitations, connection losses, blocking entire net communication even of non Killer devices) aren't caused by the Killer NIC itself but the Killer software suite (meanwhile called Qualcomm Atheros Performance Suite) which controls the networking.

Recently all MSI Gaming, MPower and XPower class mainboards as well as MSI Gaming notebooks do come with Killer Lan or even Killer WLan.

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