The Killer-NIC machine trounced the performance of its lacking sibling. Over the course of the same 15 minute testing blocks, the Killer NIC'ed box averaged 23.5 frames per second, a more than 65% performance gain. Minimum and maximum fps were also better, split between 12 on the low end and 35 on the high. Pings were relatively similar to the standard box, though we did notice latency spikes much less often on the Killer NIC'ed machine. More →