If you ask me, it?s a bit interesting ? the idea that nobody up until now has really addressed the specific networking needs of a gamer. Instead, they?ve been forced to use the likes of on-board networking or mainstream solutions from add-in board companies like Linksys, Netgear and others. We already have what I call ?p-u-idous?; CPU, GPU, PPU and now an NPU? Well if you ask the folks at Texas-based Bigfoot Networks, the NPU (Network Processing Unit) should be the next big-hit with gamers due to its promise of lower pings and higher frame rates. I mean, why not? It sort of makes sense doesn?t it? When we?re gaming online there is a lot of code flowing in and out of our PCs via the network port ? so I suppose this step seems logical, or does it?

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