Integrated NIC in Visiontek HD 5770
Now this may seem strange, but Visiontek has put a Bigfoot Killer E2100 on it’s HD 5770. Some people believe that dedicated NICs, as opposed to integrated NICs, provide lower pings, so this would provide both a videocard and a dedicated NIC that only take up only one PCI-E slot. For $200, it will be available in early December. Interesting idea, but some must wonder why they decided to use only a mid-range, year-old card. The press release can be read here, and a specification list is below:
- Powered by Radeon™ HD5770
- Powered by Bigfoot Killer™ E2100
- 1GB GDDR5 memory
- 400MHz NPU
- Compliant with DirectX® 11 and earlier revisions
- Supports OpenGL 3.1
- ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology1
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology7
- PCI Express® 2.0 support
- Speed: 10/100/1000 Mbps