BigFoot Networks has been working on designing an advanced network interface card for gamers that eliminates lag. Today they have announced the "Killer" card which will be released on August 16th.

"Powered by LLR(TM) Technology, the Killer NIC offers gamers superior speed and performance in their online games. Killer’s 400 MHz Network Processing Unit (NPU) and 64 Megabytes of dedicated DDR is one of the first applications of Corporate Network Acceleration Technology introduced to the consumer market. The result for gamers is they can achieve better ping times and experience more Frames Per Second (FPS) while they play games online - even on high-end gaming PCs with top-of-line graphics cards and other peripherals.

Gamers know the more CPU cycles that can be devoted to the game, the better the games will perform. Killer utilizes LLR Technology to offload the network processing tasks of games away from the CPU and onto the Killer’s NPU. The Killer NIC speeds up and improves the online experience of the games already on the market today and unlike other recent gaming hardware products, the Killer NIC does not require game integration."

Additional Killer NIC technical specifications are as follows:

• 10/100/1000 PCI Network Card
• 400 MHz Network Processing Unit
• 64MB RAM
• Full NIC functionality
• USB 2.0 Port

More information is available at KillerNIC.com