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so today I have a new product it is the killer Zeno Pro this is a vision Tech

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card now Bigfoot networks the uh creators of the killer Nick used to be

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the only board manufacturer that they authorized to produce their killer

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gaming network cards but Vision Tech has been brought on board to produce a Zeno

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Pro gaming card now Bigfoot claims that you can get up to 40% faster performance

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in online games and 27% smoother frame rates this card does include a copy of

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EverQuest 2 The Shadow Odyssey if you are so inclined you will need oh hey

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here we go you will need a PCI Express 1X slot on your motherboard and

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high-speed internet access via Cat 5 in order to make use of this card so let's

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open it up and while I'm opening the box here I'm just going to sort of give you

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guys a little bit of background on just exactly why we have this killer gaming

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network card we are going to be doing a test on ncx Tech tips so not on my video

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blog but on my uh my sort of more professional Channel where we will be

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comparing the killer Nick Side by Side in two identical Core i5 based gaming

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systems running Everquest 2 to see if we

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can isolate exactly where the performance Improvement comes from so

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that's going to be coming up in the next little while and if I've already done it

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I'll be putting in an annotation to give you the link to go visit It Anyway let's

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find out what comes in the Box here so it has a one-ear warranty and the first

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thing you'll find inside the box is the killer Zeno Pro so let's take it out

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actually let's see the accessories first sorry I'm going to make you guys wait

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okay there's the accessories so inside we will find a killer Xeno Pro gaming

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network card uh driver's disc as well as

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oh no you can't see that as well as our EverQuest to uh download and CD key okay

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and then we have the quick start guide for their software version 5.0.2 point0

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and actually I would definitely recommend you downlo the latest software

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off of Bigfoot Network's site okay that's interesting so that was it okay

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well let's get to the card itself then so pull this baby out so at the bottom

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of the card they've done away with the old uh classic huge metal K heat sink

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that we used to see on these things so we find a couple of RAM chips we find

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the killer npu or network processing unit itself here's our PCI Express 1X

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interface and then let's flip the card over to the back where we will find

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not a whole lot but it is tested to comply with FCC standard so that's

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terrific okay on the back of the card we will find a gigabit Ethernet port so

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that's where that's where most of the business of this card is done then we'll

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find a USB port now killer does support the use of

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thirdparty apps that can make use of this Hardware so for example these ports

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the microphone and headphone Jacks can be made use of by some voice chat

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programs like mumble to reduce the latency in those as well as in your

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games and to offload the audio processing completely from your CPU or

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your sound card to the killer Nick itself and the USB port can be used I

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believe for storage devices as well as many other uses now thank you for

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checking out my unboxing of the killer Zeno Pro