so today I have a new product it is the killer Zeno Pro this is a vision Tech
card now Bigfoot networks the uh creators of the killer Nick used to be
the only board manufacturer that they authorized to produce their killer
gaming network cards but Vision Tech has been brought on board to produce a Zeno
Pro gaming card now Bigfoot claims that you can get up to 40% faster performance
in online games and 27% smoother frame rates this card does include a copy of
EverQuest 2 The Shadow Odyssey if you are so inclined you will need oh hey
here we go you will need a PCI Express 1X slot on your motherboard and
high-speed internet access via Cat 5 in order to make use of this card so let's
open it up and while I'm opening the box here I'm just going to sort of give you
guys a little bit of background on just exactly why we have this killer gaming
network card we are going to be doing a test on ncx Tech tips so not on my video
blog but on my uh my sort of more professional Channel where we will be
comparing the killer Nick Side by Side in two identical Core i5 based gaming
systems running Everquest 2 to see if we
can isolate exactly where the performance Improvement comes from so
that's going to be coming up in the next little while and if I've already done it
I'll be putting in an annotation to give you the link to go visit It Anyway let's
find out what comes in the Box here so it has a one-ear warranty and the first
thing you'll find inside the box is the killer Zeno Pro so let's take it out
actually let's see the accessories first sorry I'm going to make you guys wait
okay there's the accessories so inside we will find a killer Xeno Pro gaming
network card uh driver's disc as well as
oh no you can't see that as well as our EverQuest to uh download and CD key okay
and then we have the quick start guide for their software version 5.0.2 point0
and actually I would definitely recommend you downlo the latest software
off of Bigfoot Network's site okay that's interesting so that was it okay
well let's get to the card itself then so pull this baby out so at the bottom
of the card they've done away with the old uh classic huge metal K heat sink
that we used to see on these things so we find a couple of RAM chips we find
the killer npu or network processing unit itself here's our PCI Express 1X
interface and then let's flip the card over to the back where we will find
not a whole lot but it is tested to comply with FCC standard so that's
terrific okay on the back of the card we will find a gigabit Ethernet port so
that's where that's where most of the business of this card is done then we'll
find a USB port now killer does support the use of
thirdparty apps that can make use of this Hardware so for example these ports
the microphone and headphone Jacks can be made use of by some voice chat
programs like mumble to reduce the latency in those as well as in your
games and to offload the audio processing completely from your CPU or
your sound card to the killer Nick itself and the USB port can be used I
believe for storage devices as well as many other uses now thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the killer Zeno Pro